Information Sources for Social Sciences

Recommended Prerequisites

The curricular unit has no prerequisites.

Teaching Methods

The lectures, taking place in classrooms with computers, are organized to encourage students’ active involvement in learning, fostering student teacher interaction. The lectures have a strong practical component, and the students work in the classroom is based on exercises.

Learning Outcomes

Overall objectives

Introducing and discussing various sources of information for social, aiming to familiarize the students with the logics and the terms of research, consultation and use of sources.

 

Generic competencies

- to promote the use of technological resources to locate, acquire and store specialized information

 - to analyse information systems and concepts that allow students processing information;

 - to become familiar with research strategies in social sciences databases;

 - to establish criteria for evaluating of sources

 

Specific objectives and competencies

 - to promote the analysis, use and importance of the main sources of information in the field of sociology and social sciences

 - disseminate knowledge concerning the characteristics of specialized information

 - to initiate students in the management of library resources and familiarize them with the media that allow access to information

 - to alert students to the fact that information sources are not innocuous.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1) Sociological research in five steps: define the topic, find information, select the documents, processing information, restore the information;

2) Diversity of publications: periodical, non-periodical and gray literature;

3) Citations and bibliographical references: direct citations, indirect citations, norms and reference styles;

4) How to paraphrase. Ways to avoid plagiarism. Creative Common Licenses;

5) Ethical commitment to information sources;

4) Select, organize and quote information with freeware (Zotero);

5) Registration, organization and analysis of data: the role of records and notes;

6) How to make readings and reviews?;

7) How to search the Internet?;

8) Research in integrated library catalogs;

9) Research of statistical sources;

10) Research of legal sources.

Head Lecturer(s)

Daniel Neves da Costa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Burgess, R. G. (1997), "Métodos de pesquisa de terreno III: o uso de documentos pessoais" in Robert G. Burgess, A pesquisa de terreno. Oeiras: Celta, 135-155.

Campello, B. Santos; Cendón, B. Valadares e Kremer, Jeannette M. (orgs.), (2000), Fontes de informação para pesquisadores e profissionais. Belo Horizonte: UFMG.

Carrizo, G.; Irureta-Goyena, P. e López de Quintana, E. (2000), Manual de Fuentes de Información. Madrid: CEGAL.

Eco, U. (1998), "O plano de trabalho e a elaboração de fichas" in Umberto Eco, Como se faz uma tese em ciências humanas. Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 123-159.

Marconi, M. de Andrade e Lakatos, Eva M. (1996), "Pesquisa bibliográfica" in Marina de A. Marconi e Eva Maria Lakatos, Técnicas de pesquisa. São Paulo: Atlas, 66-68 e 73-75

Peixoto, Paulo (2019) "Fontes de Informação para as Ciências Sociais". Página eletrónica www4.fe.uc.pt/fontes.