This paper aims at presenting
history of social research. The thematic focus of the paper is on emergence of
social research (especially qualitative research) and it also presents common
approaches in collecting qualitative research. The first part of the paper
deals with emergence of social research in the light of enlightenment thought.
It also discusses the epistemological perspectives i.e. two most commonly
approaches-interpretive and positivism. The second part of the paper briefly
describes common approaches in collecting and using qualitative data. The last
part of the paper will describe how one carry out the data analysis process in
qualitative research.
Inorder to understand social research it is pertinent to know
the brief history of research, its traditions and philosophical foundation. To
understand this one has to understand the enlightenment thought. The
Enlightenment refers to a period of European intellectual history that has its
beginnings in the eighteenth century. Read More....
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