HIS1C01 - METHOD OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Module 1
Research Methodology: Major Trends
Social Research and Historical Research:
Social Science Research can be simply described as the
scientific study of human society, it includes main subjects
like sociology, economics, anthropology, history, political
science, public administration, demography social science
research is a method used by social scientists and researchers
to learn about people and societies so that they can design
services that cater to various needs of the people. Different
Socio-economic groups belonging to different parts of a
country think differently. Various aspects of human behavior
need to be addressed to understand their thoughts and feed
back about the social work, which can be done using Social
Research.
A research problem in research, refer to some difficulty
which a researcher experience in the context of either a
theoretical or practical situation and wants to obtain a solution
for the same.
Social Science Research or Social research is the
systematic method of discovering and verifying new and old
facts, their succession, connection, fundamental explanation,
and the natural law that governs them. In other words it is the
scientific undertaking in the field of social sciences to acquire
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new facts. It is the manipulation of things, concepts and
symbols with a view to extend new knowledge or verify the
old knowledge whether that knowledge aids in the construction
of a theory or in the practice of an art. Social science res
search has been defined by Rummel as “A devoted study of
mankind in his social environment and is concerned with
improving his understanding of social orders, groups,
instructions and ethics. Social science research provides
authentic information to the people that are scientifically
proven so that end users can rely upon it .
History as knowledge history of knowledge is the
field covering the accumulated and known human knowledge
created or discovered during the history of the writs historic
forms, accumulation bearers, impacts, meditations,
distributional, contexts, conditions and methods of production.
Positivism:
In Sociology Positivism is the view that social
phenomena ought to be studied using only the methods of the
natural sciences. So, positivism is a view about the appropriate
methodology of social science, emphasizing empirical
observation .The positivist paradigm of exploring social reality
is based on the idea that can best gain an understanding of
human behavior through observation and reason. Positivism is
the name for scientific study of the social work. Its goal is to
formulate abstract and universal laws on the operative
dynamics of the social universe. In positivism, laws are to be
tested against collected data systematically.
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Module 1
Research Methodology: Major Trends
Social Research and Historical Research:
Social Science Research can be simply described as the
scientific study of human society, it includes main subjects
like sociology, economics, anthropology, history, political
science, public administration, demography social science
research is a method used by social scientists and researchers
to learn about people and societies so that they can design
services that cater to various needs of the people. Different
Socio-economic groups belonging to different parts of a
country think differently. Various aspects of human behavior
need to be addressed to understand their thoughts and feed
back about the social work, which can be done using Social
Research.
A research problem in research, refer to some difficulty
which a researcher experience in the context of either a
theoretical or practical situation and wants to obtain a solution
for the same.
Social Science Research or Social research is the
systematic method of discovering and verifying new and old
facts, their succession, connection, fundamental explanation,
and the natural law that governs them. In other words it is the
scientific undertaking in the field of social sciences to acquire
7
, HIS1C01 - METHOD OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
new facts. It is the manipulation of things, concepts and
symbols with a view to extend new knowledge or verify the
old knowledge whether that knowledge aids in the construction
of a theory or in the practice of an art. Social science res
search has been defined by Rummel as “A devoted study of
mankind in his social environment and is concerned with
improving his understanding of social orders, groups,
instructions and ethics. Social science research provides
authentic information to the people that are scientifically
proven so that end users can rely upon it .
History as knowledge history of knowledge is the
field covering the accumulated and known human knowledge
created or discovered during the history of the writs historic
forms, accumulation bearers, impacts, meditations,
distributional, contexts, conditions and methods of production.
Positivism:
In Sociology Positivism is the view that social
phenomena ought to be studied using only the methods of the
natural sciences. So, positivism is a view about the appropriate
methodology of social science, emphasizing empirical
observation .The positivist paradigm of exploring social reality
is based on the idea that can best gain an understanding of
human behavior through observation and reason. Positivism is
the name for scientific study of the social work. Its goal is to
formulate abstract and universal laws on the operative
dynamics of the social universe. In positivism, laws are to be
tested against collected data systematically.
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