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.