Social Research: History, Strategies and Presentation

Description

Social research can serve a variety of purposes. Three of the most influential and common purposes of research are exploration, description and explanation. For social research the most important implication of this is that the long running problem of relating the quantitative and qualitative programmes no longer matters, apart from to those who deny any substantive reality to anything other than social actions and therefore regard all measurement as inherently reifying. “Design of Sociological Research“ or Research Design is a broad plan of a piece of empirical research specifying the manner in which data are to be collected and analysed in order to test Research Design derived from theory, or to develop insights into the problem being investigated. It combines relevance of the problem with economy in procedure. The design stage is most crucial phase of the research process. A particular design may specify whether experiment, social survey, participant observation, other methods, or a combination of more than one method will be used. Social Research is a method used by social scientists and researchers to learn about people and societies so that they can design products/services that cater to various needs of the people. Different socioeconomic groups belonging to different parts of a county think differently. Various aspects of human behavior need to be addressed to understand their thoughts and feedback about the social world, which can be done using Social Research. Any topic can trigger social research - new feature, new market trend or an upgrade in old technology. Advanced methodology of social research in the Indian and abroad context and attempts to integrate participatory and rights-based concerns with social work statistics and research.