Chapter 1: Approaches to Research
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Research is concerned with collecting and analysing data systematically to help solve problems that concern us. In common usage, research has wider meanings. Often, people refer to reading books or searching the internet as research. For research purposes, these activities are only part of the job at hand. Basic Research Methods looks at research in the sense of collecting your own original data and analysing the information collected thoroughly and methodically. Data does not necessarily mean numbers. Words are data too.
This book is for beginners in research in the social sciences, perhaps in anthropology, education, geography, political science, psychology, sociology or other subjects such as management. Social scientists have a wide variety of perspectives, and attempts to develop theories that ...
Guthrie, G. (2010). Approaches to research. In Basic research methods: An entry to social science research (pp. 3-14). SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9788132105961.n1
Guthrie, Gerard. "Approaches to Research." In Basic Research Methods: An Entry to Social Science Research, 3-14. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9788132105961.n1.
Guthrie, G. 2010. Approaches to Research. In: 2010. Basic Research Methods: An Entry to Social Science Research, New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. pp. 3-14 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9788132105961.n1> [Accessed 9 Dec 2021].
Guthrie, Gerard. "Approaches to Research." Basic Research Methods: An Entry to Social Science Research. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2010, pp. 3-14. SAGE Knowledge. 9 Dec 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9788132105961.n1.