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Having completed the course students should be able to identify, critically evaluate and apply the background assumptions and metatheoretic frameworks and models that are used in substantive theories of the social sciences.

Typical texts (but also concrete scientific practices of researchers) will be studied and discussed.

Reading, discussion, team work.

Seminar paper.

Course examination according to § 7, statute section on "study-law regulations"

Bourdieu, Pierre/Wacquant, Loïc J. D. (1996): Reflexive Anthropologie, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. Chalmers, Alan F. (2006): Wege der Wissenschaft. Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie, Berlin: Springer. Cohen, I. Bernard (1994): Revolutionen in der Naturwissenschaft [am. 1988], Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. Popper, Karl R. (1994): Logik der Forschung, Tübingen: Mohr. Schülein, Johannn August (2008): Wissenschaftstheorie für Einsteiger, Stuttgart: UTB.

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