Sociology Learners

The Research Process

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"d39b46b3f7ef22b4a3a221038394de7c" data-index&equals;"1" style&equals;"float&colon; left&semi; margin&colon; 10px 10px 10px 0&semi;">&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- Sociology Learners 336 X 280 Post Top --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;inline-block&semi;width&colon;336px&semi;height&colon;280px" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-7649183549375766" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1656902389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">To ensure that&comma; the research knowledge is to be considered as scientific knowledge&comma; scholars go through certain procedures&period; Those procedure will be discussed in the research process&period; Moreover&comma; research process is a vast subject of study however&comma; for understanding the fundamentals of the process&comma; it is confined and explained&comma; in six steps below&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Step One&colon; Define the Problem<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Every social research has topic and purpose&comma; it may be regarding unemployment or poverty&period; Topic can be selected through personal observation or secondary data&period; However&comma; researcher have to choose a topic which should be confined and focused on a specific social issue&comma; furthermore&comma; researcher should be clear about&comma; what he want to achieve from the research&quest; In simple words researcher should be clear about the purpose of research&period; Let’s take an example of research topic or problem&comma; researcher might be interested in conducting a research on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;high unemployment rate in African American community”&period; Researcher might conduct research on this topic&comma; with the assumption&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Racial discrimination is the cause of unemployment”&period; Moreover&comma; when research topic and purpose are clear and carefully selected then researcher can proceed his research&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Step Two&colon; Literature Review<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Literature review is the part of research where&comma; researcher review all the social researches similar to his research topic&period; It provides clear picture of specific social problem and explore the associated theories related to the problem&period; Moreover&comma; literature review helps the researcher to identify those areas of social problem&comma; on which research has not been conducted in past&period; It also saves the researcher&comma; from duplicating research&period; Furthermore&comma; researcher also gets an idea during literature review that&comma; which research method should be applied on the social issue&period; The theoretical approaches&semi; discovered through literature review related to research topic&comma; helps the researcher in developing questionnaire and interview questions&semi; which are data collection tools as discussed earlier&period; Review of the literature is considered as the back bone of research&comma; in addition&comma; it helps the researcher in identifying the variables required for developing questionnaire and testing hypothesis&period; If we continue the above example of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;high unemployment rate in African American community”&comma; the variables could be race and unemployment&period; After collecting data&comma; it will depend upon the research design that&comma; which method would be used in analyzing or testing data&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Step Three&colon; Generate Hypothesis<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Hypothesis are the assumptions behind research&comma; on basis of which research is conducted&period; Let’s put it in this way&comma; the purpose behind conducting research is to prove or disapprove the research assumption&period; These assumption are the mysteries which researcher is trying to resolve by&comma; conducting research&period; Hypothesis should be clear and measureable&comma; hypothesis of the above example could be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Racial discrimination is the cause of unemployment”&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Step Four&colon; Research Methodology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In this step researcher choose the research method may be one or more&period; Selecting research method depends upon research topic and hypothesis&period; Sometimes some research methods are not applicable on certain type of research&period; However&comma; in research methodology research method is not only thing to be decided by researcher&period; Researcher has to decide sampling technique&comma; data collection instrument and statistical method for testing hypothesis&period; Suppose if data collection instrument is questionnaire then researcher have to decide which scale should be used to get better output from testing data&period; Data can be analyze through frequency distribution and graphical representation of tabulation or it can be analyzed through multivariate data analysis techniques&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Step Five&colon;Data Collection<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">As discussed earlier&comma; data can be collected from different methods&comma; through questionnaire&comma; interview&comma; observation and secondary data analysis&period; Literature review is the part&comma; where researcher perform secondary data analysis&comma; analyzing the past researches which are similar to his research&period; Moreover data collection through questionnaire is asking the same set of question from different individuals&comma; questionnaire may be close ended or open ended again depends on the research&period; Data should be collected and recorded carefully by researcher because&comma; on the basis of the data&comma; research hypothesis is tested and concluded&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Step Six&colon; Analyze and Interpret the Results<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">After data collection researcher analyze data with the help of statistical methods&period; For data analysis researcher might use simple frequency distribution or may use multivariate data analysis&period; Whatever technique is better for testing the hypothesis and justifying result should be used by the researcher&period; After the analysis of data&comma; researcher should interpret the results by accepting and rejecting hypothesis&period; Tabulation and graphs also requires interpretation&period; For example 60&percnt; of unemployed African American lives in bad school district&period; It explains the relationship between the unemployment and low educational standard in school&period; Which imply that&comma; low educational standard in schools might results in unemployment&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

Exit mobile version