Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • identify the ways in which social scientific descriptions and understandings are related to the enactment of social worlds
  • understand the enactment of social science in terms of informing public debates and shaping the social worlds it investigates
  • identify the ways in which social science investigates participation as a topic and the uses to which social science research on participation is put
  • understand how social scientific ideas about participation in social worlds have impacted on public debates and policies about poverty
  • provide examples of how ordinary people are themselves involved in participating in social science.