3 Review(s)

An excellent book with thorough coverage for MA and BA classes, also very helpful for the students preparing for various competitive and professional examinations. 1.Social Research : Meaning, Scope and Significance, 2. Hypothesis : Concept and Formulation, 3. Scientific Study of Social Phenomena, 4. Scientific Method : Logic in Social Science, 5. Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Science, 6. Positivism and Phenomenology, 7. Methods of Social Research : Quantitative (Social Survey), 8. Observation, 9. Case Study, 10. Content Analysis, 11. Types of Research : Basic Applied, Historical and Empirical, 12. Types of Social Research : Exploratory, Descriptive or Explanatory, Diagnostic and Experimental, 13. Techniques of Data Collection, 14. Sampling Technique, 15. Questionnaire, 16. Schedule, 17. Interview, 18. Primary and Secondary Data, 19. Classification of Data Tabulation and Presentation, 20. Graphical Presentation of Data, 21. Measurement of Central Tendency : Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation.