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CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH IN PERPECTIVES - Coggle Diagram
CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH IN PERPECTIVES
DEFINITION OF RESERACH
It is an organised, systematic, data based, critical, objective, scientific, inquiry or investigation into a specific problem, undertaken with the purpose of findings answers or solution to it.
Research is a process of planning, executing and investigating in order to find answers to the specific questions or objectives.
From the general perspectives, research is central activities to human beings or all of mankind.
PURPOSE OF RESEARCH
• to generate new knowledge
• to review and synthesise existing knowledge
• to investigate some existing situation or problem
• to provide solutions to a problem
• to explore and analyse more general issue
• to construct or create a new procedure or system
• to explain a new phenomenon
• to forecast the future phenomenon
• a combination of any of the above
TYPES OF RESEARCH
Pure, applied and action research
Exploratory
Exploratory research is undertaken when few or no previous studies exist. The aims are to look for patterns, hypotheses or ideas that can be tested and will form the basis for further research
Quantitative, qualitative, multi approach
Deductive or inductive research
Nomothetic and ideographic research
Descriptive
Descriptive research can be used to identify and classify the elements or characteristics of the subject, e.g. number of days lost because of industrial action
Analytical
Analytical research often extends the descriptive approach to suggest or explain why or how something is happening, e.g. underlying causes of industrial action
RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
POSITIVISTIC
Survey
Experimental studies
Longitudinal studies
Cross-sectional studies
PHENOMENOL
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Case studies
Action research
Ethnography (participant observation)
Participative enquiry
Feminist perspectives
Grounded theory