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Purpose: Identify the perception of students of Applied Social Sciences courses regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic during their training the impacts at universities in the state of Paraná. Methodology: Data collection took place through an online questionnaire and had the participation of 115 students from two universities in Paraná. The questionnaire had open and closed questions and was divided into sections with demographic information, and the student's perception of the impact of the pandemic, for the analysis of closed questions, descriptive statistics was used, for open questions, content analysis was used. Results: As for remote teaching, approximately 72% of respondents reported difficulties in concentrating during classes, 80% of students thought about dropping out of the course during the pandemic and about 81% of respondents said that their studies were negatively affected by the pandemic, some factors pointed out by the students were the accumulation of academic activities, the unpreparedness of these students for self-study and the lack of an adequate environment for learning. Contributions of the Study: The work contributed to the academic society by identifying the negative perception that students had during remote teaching, to the literature on the impacts of the pandemic on higher education, because according to the students' perception, the pandemic had negative impacts on learning in their respective courses, in addition, the result indicates that students of Applied Social Sciences, in most of them do not have a very high family income and thus structural problems have arisen to follow classes in remote teaching, in this sense, public bodies need to pay attention to this type of need and adapt teaching to the conditions of these students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose of the study: To analyze how Applied Social Sciences (ASS) field uses patent documents in articles, in addition to non-patent literature. Methodology/approach: A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was carried out, by selecting articles statistically analyzed regarding the year of publication, authors' nationality and knowledge area. Articles from the ASS area which explore technical information of patent documents were qualitatively analyzed as for content and ways patent information was used. Originality/Relevance: The use of technical information present in patent documents is unusual in articles, in which bibliographic references prevail as the main data source. Knowledge fields with interdisciplinary profile lack specific studies. Main results: The results obtained point that the ASS area explores little technical patent information, with patentometric studies prevailing. Articles that explore technical information observe on average one patent document, with a matter description based on textual data obtained from the title or abstract. Theoretical/methodological contributions: Systematization of SLR selected articles that allowed performing relevant quantitative analysis to understand how ASS researchers use information obtained from patent documents (metric analysis or exploration of technical information) for the construction of scientific knowledge. Social Contributions/Management Contributions: Potential opportunity to offer actions and tools to help students and researchers towards exploring patent bases in order to select documents relevant to the research topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este estudo tem o objetivo de realizar críticas sobre a importância do método científico para realizar e divulgar as pesquisas nas ciências sociais aplicadas e sobre as tipologias de pesquisas, bem como destacar contribuições de Marx, Weber e Durkheim para a metodologia científica. Foi realizada uma revisão na literatura sobre método científico, técnicas de pesquisa, o termo pesquisa e metodologias científicas. Os resultados da investigação revelaram que é fundamental o investigador acadêmico utilizar um método científico para realizar e divulgar seus trabalhos acadêmicos nas ciências sociais aplicadas em comparação com as ciências bioquímicas e ciência da computação e na literatura apontada. Quanto às contribuições para a metodologia científica, entre as várias destacam: Marx, a análise dialogada, dialética, contundente, explicativa do fenômeno social, a necessidade de se buscar compreender os fenômenos como totalidades históricas e concretas; Weber, a distinção entre "juízos de fato" e os "juízos de valor" para dar objetividade para as ciências sociais e Durkheim, a necessidade de conceituar muito bem o seu objeto de estudo e rejeitar os dados sensíveis e imbuir-se do espírito de fazer descobertas e de ser surpreendido com os resultados. This study aims to discuss the importance of the scientific method to conduct and advertise research in applied social sciences and research typologies, as well as to highlight contributions from Marx, Weber and Durkheim to the scientific methodology. To reach this objective, we conducted a review of the literature on the term research, the scientific method, the research techniques and the scientific methodologies. The results of the investigation revealed that it is fundamental that the academic investigator uses a scientific method to conduct and advertise his/her academic works in applied social sciences in comparison with the biochemical or computer sciences and in the indicated literature. Regarding the contributions to the scientific methodology, we have Marx, dialogued, the dialectical, striking analysis, explicative of social phenomenon, the need to understand the phenomena as historical and concrete totalities; Weber, the distinction between "facts" and "value judgments" to provide objectivity to the social sciences and Durkheim, the need to conceptualize very well its object of study, reject sensible data and imbue with the spirit of discovery and of being surprised with the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quantitative approach in the Business courses has distressed students searching for humanistic contents in Applied Social Sciences area of knowledge. One can observe this in the Materials and Patrimonial Properties Management course taught during the Business Administration program. This situation becomes still worse when the course is offered on Fridays evenings. This study dealt with four classes (morning and evening sessions) in two private institutions. The course was taught according to two procedures: a) professor centered, and b) participant centered. The same activities were scheduled in a distinctive way. The results indicated that the students' achievement were (statistically significant at 1%) superior in the participant centered procedure (P2) in comparison to the professor centered procedure (P1). Very low investments for designing and planning the didactic materials made possible to produce better achievement of the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]