課程宗旨
<br>本課程主要介紹社會科學的理念與方法。我們主要介紹三種「做」社會科學的方法：positivism, the interpretative tradition, the critical tradition。同時，我們也將找一個題目來實地演練社會科學。這個題目是：誰得了「傑出教學獎」？我們將形成一些具體的假設，然後想辦法來驗證這些假設是否正確。 
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<br>指定讀物
<br>Gerard Delanty & Piet Strydom (eds.) 2003 Philosophies of Social Science: The 
<br>Classic and Contemporary Readings. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
<br>Mark Buchanan 葉偉文譯 2007 《隱藏的邏輯》(The Social Atom) 台北：天下文
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<br>評分標準
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<br>課堂參與：10％
<br>分組報告：40％
<br>期末考：50％
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<br>每週進度
<br>週數	日期	         閱讀進度
<br>Week 1	2007/9/11 	停課
<br>Week 2	2007/9/18	         隱藏的邏輯
<br>Week 3	2007/9/25	         中秋節放假一週
<br>Week 4	2007/10/2	         孔德的實證科學
<br>Week 5	2007/10/9	         D & S Positivism(1)
<br>Week 6	2007/10/16	D & S Positivism (2)
<br>Week 7	2007/10/23	D & S Positivism (3)
<br>Week 8	2007/10/30	一、權力菁英  二、分組報告
<br>Week 9	2007/11/6 	D & S Interpretative tradition (1)
<br>Week 10	2007/11/13	D & S Interpretative tradition (2)
<br>Week 11	2007/11/20	D & S Interpretative tradition (3)
<br>Week 12	2007/11/27	D & S Critical tradition (1)
<br>Week 13	2007/12/4	         D & S Critical tradition (2)
<br>Week 14	2007/12/11	D & S Critical tradition (3)
<br>Week 15	2007/12/18	D & S Social Construction
<br>Week 16	2007/12/25	期末分組報告
<br>Week 17	2008/1/1	         放假
<br>Week 18	2008/1/8	         期末考
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