Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Types of Research Desing
- Explanatory Research:
- Purpose
- achieve new insights into a phenomenon
- accurate investigation or for developing a hypothesis
- When is this applicable?
- when there are few or no earlier research/studies to
which references can be made for information
- there is little knowledge available
about social interaction pattern
- Methods
- Survey of Literature
- The researcher has to gather these various hypothesis with a view
to evaluate their usefulness for further research and to consider
whether they suggest new hypothesis after thorough research of
all the available material
- The Experience of Survey
- are in a position to observe the effects of different policy –actions and to relate these to problems of
human welfare
- Characteristics:
- Best Hypothesis: help of experience
survey best hypothesis can be made
- Behavioural Possibility: It introduces the different types of study
- Knowledge of Facilities
- Control Factor: controlled and un-controlled knowledge can be found
- Knowledge of Helping Persons
- Case Study
- Definition
- insight-stimulating cases should be selected for
special study. For particular problems, certain cases
may be found more appropriate than others
- Objective
- is to know precisely the factors and causes which
plain the complete behavioral patterns of unit and
the place of the unit in its surrounding social miller
- Results:
- are not usually useful for decision-making by
themselves, but they can provide significant insight
into a given situation.
- Descriptive Research
- Purpose
- It is used to identify and obtain information on
characteristic of a particular issue like community,
group or people
- describes social events, social structure, social situations