Social science research is the scientific study of society. More specifically, social science research examines a society’s attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, trends, norms, values and rules. Poverty, racism, class issues, sexuality, voting behavior, and criminal behavior etc are included in this research. It looks for cause-and-effect relationships of a social issues and underlying concepts. Before beginning research, researcher must formulate some social research question. The examples can be A researcher might ask if there is a relationship between a person income level and his or her sex. Do men have higher incomes than women? Are women most likely to be poor?
Difficulty in applying scientific method in Social Science Research are as follows:
1. Vested interest of researcher
2. Complexity of subject matter
3. Difficulty to obtain accurate measurement
4. Misconception of society
5. Emotional tendencies
6. Natural human expressions
7. Lack of universalities
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