2025/2026

Время в социальных науках: подходы и измерение

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Кафедра демографии

Когда читается: 2, 3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Митрофанова Екатерина Сергеевна

Язык: английский

Контактные часы: 48

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course consists of two parts: theoretical (before the new year) and practical (after the new year). First, we will learn the main approaches of understanding time in the social sciences and then develop the skills of qualitative and quantitative analysis of biographies. The course will provide students experience in real academic research. The themes and tasks are structured in the same manner that scientists conduct research: studying theoretical concepts, creating one’s own ideas and hypotheses, choosing appropriate methods of analysis, running analyses, and making conclusions. Students may choose either a qualitative or a quantitative approach for their final projects, but the core of the tasks aims to develop skills in both types of analysis. The tasks not only have academic value but also develop the knowledge about students’ own family scenarios and let them learn what role life course change and generational shifts play in their own lives. After this course, the students will have a structured view of different concepts and aspects of time (APC-method, theory of generations, life-course approach and transition to adulthood). They will be able to work with biographical events in MS Excel and IBM SPSS, i.e., to analyse dates and ages of events, the intervals between them, the numbers of events, their order and their risk of occurrence.