https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/SOCL5020?type=COREThe aim of the course is to provide an introduction to the logic and methods of inquiry in the social sciences. The course is divided into three parts. We begin by considering the politics of social inquiry: what constitutes knowledge? How are specific modes of inquiry authorised? (and others de-authorised?) The aim here is for students to consider the politics and intent that are sometimes left unsaid in the construction of research projects. Students will be encouraged to think through and critique their own intentions as well as the specific academic and cultural politics that authorise certain forms of knowledge practice. The second part of the course will focus on methods of social research. The aim here is for students to familiarise themselves with methods of inquiry used in the making of what constitutes knowledge in the social sciences. This is not a methods course, so we don't delve very deep or exhaustively into these research methods - our aim is rather to focus on the building blocks of research methods - issues of agency, structure and scale. The third part of the course considers the impact of what we will have studied thus far for conceiving and writing a 'research proposal'.