Sunday, September 28, 2008

Social research method


A framework for design :
A framework is needed to combine the elements of philosophical ideas, strategies, methods into three approaches to research. These are three approaches to research, namely; qualitative approaches, quantitative approaches and mixed methods approaches.
To design a perfect framework, the researcher has to answer three main questions :
1. What knowledge claim are made by researcher ?
2. What strategies of inquiry will be choosen by researcher?
3. What methods of data collection will be used?
If researcher choose the topic thesis, they have to emperical experiences in this field. An important step is draft structure of thesis have to design.
These are some questions for learning research method :
Is it helpful for reading other’s thesis in learning research method?
Is research method suitable for scholar research?
How many different kinds of reseach method?
Does research method in study have any dificulties?
Scientific knowledge is product research result, or scientific research try to produce scientific knoledge. Through the lesson, Wu teacher show to students the way which everyone can collect and label the specific words into three groups:
- Philosophical scientific research
- Basic concept reseach
- Theory of society
Social research :
Social research have been used almost fields. It can be used to raise children, decrease crime rate, improve public health, business. Social research involves learning something new about the social word, a researcher need to think logically folow rules and repeat step over and over.
Scienctific community is an idealism. It is a collection of people and a set of norm, behaviors, and attitudes that bind them together. The Scienctific community includes both the natural and social sciences.
The norm of scientific community :
- Universalism
- Organized skepticism
- Disinterestedness
- Communalism
- Honesty