Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
YKT.200
Social Order and Social Scientific Imagination, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
Active in period 2 (21.10.2024–31.12.2024)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Active in period 5 (1.6.2025–31.7.2025)
Course code
YKT.200Language of instruction
English, FinnishAcademic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027Level of study
Intermediate studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Hanna RautajokiResponsible organisation
Faculty of Social Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Social Sciences Studies 100 %
The course introduces social scientific perspectives to approach and imagine social reality. It reflects on the role of the expert in society and compares different ways of structuring the social order. The course reviews the starting points, perspectives and conceptual frameworks of social science research, works on social scientific imagination and provides practice in using intellectual professionalism to formulate social scientific questions.
Learning outcomes
Recommended prerequisites
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Participation in teaching
09.09.2024 – 18.11.2024
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
Active in period 2 (21.10.2024–31.12.2024)
Completion option 2
Exam
01.08.2024 – 31.07.2025
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
Active in period 2 (21.10.2024–31.12.2024)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Active in period 5 (1.6.2025–31.7.2025)