研究性教学在社会学课程教学中的探索

The Research Teaching Exploration of the Course of Sociology

社会学是研究社会的学科,是一门实证性、综合性的具体社会科学。在本科生的社会学课程教学中,研究性教学在提高教学效果方面扮演着十分重要的角色。推进社会学通识教育课程的研究性教学,有三种主要途径,分别是:利用沪江大学社会学系的系史资料进行历史分析;开展社会调查课题研究探索现实社会问题;进行社会学的思想实验获取对社会生活的深层理解。实践表明,这样的方式对于学生理解社会学的想象力、运用社会学视角思考问题具有较好的成效。

Sociology is an empirical and comprehensive discipline of the social sciences.In its teaching course,research can play a very important role in improving the teaching effect.The author promotes research teaching in the course of sociology by three main ways:using historical materials of the Department of Sociology at University of Shanghai,implementing some social investigation projects,and conducting sociological thinking experiments.The practice and exploration I have achieved have initial effects.