School Of Social SciencesPhilosophies of Social SciencesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101346.1
Discipline: SOCIAL WORK
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
400686 - Philosophies of Practice
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 40 credit points.
About this Unit
The unit reviews historical trends in the evolution of thoughts in the social sciences and introduces some key arguments of their critics. While addressing philosophical questions on the nature of knowledge, truth, science and psychoanalysis, this unit covers the birth and death of modern philosophies, and of the modern subject. All these topics, and others such as those on postmodernism and the risk society, equip the social science student with a strong philosophical and theoretical background to their discipline and with skills required for critical thinking.