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  2. Social research - Wikipedia

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    Social research is based on logic and empirical observations. Charles C. Ragin writes in his Constructing Social Research book that "Social research involved the interaction between ideas and evidence. Ideas help social researchers make sense of evidence, and researchers use evidence to extend, revise and test ideas."

  3. Qualitative research - Wikipedia

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    Qualitative methods include ethnography, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and interpretative phenomenological analysis. [1] Qualitative research methods have been used in sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, communication studies, social work, folklore, educational research, information science and software engineering ...

  4. Multimethodology - Wikipedia

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    Multimethodology or multimethod research includes the use of more than one method of data collection or research in a research study or set of related studies.Mixed methods research is more specific in that it includes the mixing of qualitative and quantitative data, methods, methodologies, and/or paradigms in a research study or set of related studies.

  5. Exploratory research - Wikipedia

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    formal qualitative research through in-depth interviews, focus groups, projective methods, case studies or pilot studies According to Stebbins (2001) "Social Science exploration is a broad-ranging, purposive, systematic prearranged undertaking designed to maximize the discovery of generalizations leading to description and understanding". [ 1 ]

  6. Community studies - Wikipedia

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    Community studies is an academic field drawing on both sociology and anthropology and the social research methods of ethnography and participant observation in the study of community. In academic settings around the world, community studies is variously a sub-discipline of anthropology or sociology, or an independent discipline.

  7. Ethnomethodology - Wikipedia

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    Ethnomethodology is a fundamentally descriptive discipline which does not engage in the explanation or evaluation of the particular social order undertaken as a topic of study., [5] "to discover the things that persons in particular situations do, the methods they use, to create the patterned orderliness of social life". However, applications ...

  8. Quantitative research - Wikipedia

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    In the social sciences, the term relates to empirical methods originating in both philosophical positivism and the history of statistics, in contrast with qualitative research methods. Qualitative research produces information only on the particular cases studied, and any more general conclusions are only hypotheses. Quantitative methods can be ...

  9. Social statistics - Wikipedia

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    Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling a group of people, evaluating a subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors.