STEPS TO UNDERSTAND

1. BY: A.Ali AS A RESEARCHER THE KIND OF STAGES THAT TAKE PLACE IN WRITING A SOCIAL SCEINCE RESERCH

2. INTRODUCTION Social research refers to research conducted by social researchers, with in sociology and social psychology, also with in other disciplines such as social policy, human geography, political science, social anthropology and education. The social researchers study diverse things from census data on hundreds of thousands of human beings, through the in-depth analysis of the life of a single important person or a group to monitoring what is happening on a street or state today or what was happening a few hundred years ago.

3. OBJECTIVES OF A SOCIAL RESEARCH The objectives or goal of a social researcher is to achieve the targeted subject to a conclusion through an organized plane which helps the society or nation.

4. FOUNDATION OF SOCIAL RESERCH Social research is based on logic and empirical observation. An American Philosopher and professor in sociology and political science at the university of Arizona “CHALES C RAGIN”, a book of him “constructing social research “, said that “social research involved the interaction between ideas and evidence” according to this it is the foundation of social research.

5. Social research is divided in to two PURE RESEARCH It carried out to increase understanding of fundamental principles. Many times the end result has no direct or immediate commercial benefits. APPLIED RESEARCH It carried out the research accessing and using some part of the research communities “the academies”, accumulated theories, Knowledge, methods and techniques for a specific, often sate, commercial or client driven purpose.

6. TYPES OF EXPLANATION IN A SOCIAL RESEARCH IDIOGRAPHIC It explains as a tendency to specify and expressed in the humanities. It explains the effort to understand the effort to understand the meaning of contingent, accidental and often subjective phenomena. NOMOTETIC It explains the tendency to generalize and express in the natural science. It also explains the effort to derive laws that explain objects and phenomena.

7. TYPES OF INQUIRY IN A SOCIAL RESEARCH DEDUCTIVE METHOD It is a method of reasoning which uses deductive arguments to move from given statement to conclusions, which must be true. INDUCTIVE METHOD It is also called “inductive logic”. It is the process of reasoning in which the premises of an argument are believed to support the conclusion.

8. SOCIAL RESEARCH CAN BE STUDY QUANTITAIVE METHOD It is a systematic investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationship. QUALITATIVE METHOD It is the field of enquiry that crosscut disciplines and subject matters.

9. PARADIGMS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Social paradigms point out to focus on the ability of some groups to dominate others or resistance to such dominate others, or resistance to such domination. It also examines how people make sense out of social life in the process of living it, as if each was a researcher engaged in inquiry.

10. THE ETHIC OF A SOCIAL RESERACHER Voluntary participation No harm to subject Integrity Privacy, anonymity and confidential This is the primary assumptions of the ethics in a social research.

11. STEPS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Confirm a topic Deep understanding of the topic Rough idea of the topic Get a sponsor Prepare a time frame to the research Decide which method is going to used Decide what secondary data that are going to use Analyze a conclusion Start collecting the information Recording the data Analyzing the data Deleting the irrelevant information Formatting the report Start writing the report Polishing the report Rewrite the report Read and submit the report

17. CONCLUTION It is important that, attempting a research any should no what is a research It is also important to a researcher to understand the steps of the research that he/she is going to do. Any thing any one do must have a goal or a plane, with out a goal or plane it will be impossible to achieve their objectives, there for to a researcher they should have a plane and rules to follow. A researcher should know that ,with out the research steps, it will be impossible to attempt to a research and conclude that topic. With out a systematic attempt ,a researcher will not get a successful research done.