1. To provide students with the necessary tools to study certain social and political phenomena, with methodological rigour, in relation to their analysis, understanding and presentation;
2. Know the main stages of the research process;
3. Identify and compare the main methodological approaches;
4. Identify the methodological choices and their implications;
5. Develop and demonstrate skills of reflection, communication, argumentation and debate;
6. Use specialised information sources;
7. Know the main techniques of data collection;
8. Be able to carry out scientific work.
1. Key issues in social research
1.2. General research guidelines
1.3. Starting question
1.4. Research design
1.5. Research ethics
2. The research project: definition, exploration, delimitation of the problematic, models of analysis, variables, hypotheses.
3. Qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods and techniques.
3.1. Information analysis
4. The Information Sources: typology; research and criticism of sources; deontological and citation rules and bibliographic reference.
5. The academic papers: types; writing standards, structure and presentation; the article, the review.
The teaching activities of the course unit are organized in three registers: theoretical lessons, exposure of content, concepts, arguments and theories; theoretical and practical lessons, questioning, analysis, exploration and commentary of texts and their nuclear content, and tutorials for monitoring and guiding the work of individual and group students. Interactive methodology, student-centered. More specifically, the interrogative method of teaching will be privileged: students will be frequently confronted with questions whose answers require the development of skills in consulting relevant documentation, production of reasoned argumentation and debate of ideas in small and large groups. Construction of explanatory schemes of the issues addressed.
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