The social in social science

Introduction

In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves, understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This course provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions and outlines the important relationship between philosophical thinking and practical research methods in social sciences.

This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Postgraduate study in Sociology [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .