methodology

(noun)

A collection of methods, practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in some field.

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Examples of methodology in the following topics:

  • Preparing the Research Report

    • Sociological research publications generally include a literature review, an overview of the methodology followed, the results and an analysis of those results, and conclusions.
    • In the methodology section, be sure to include: the population, sample frame, sample method, sample size, data collection method, and data processing and analysis.

  • Bibliography

    • Applied network analysis: A methodological introduction.
    • Applied network analysis: A methodological introduction.
    • Applied network analysis: A methodological introduction
    • Applied network analysis: A methodological introduction
    • Leinhardt (ed. ) Sociolgical Methodology 1981.

  • Introduction

    • To do this, sociologists employ demographic techniques, survey analysis, ethnography, and various other methodological approaches.

  • History

    • As a result, many researchers argued that the methodology used in the natural sciences was perfectly suited for use in the social sciences.
    • This early sociological approach, supported by August Comte, led to positivism, a methodological approach based on sociological naturalism.
    • While arriving at a verstehen-like understanding of a culture employs systematic methodologies like the positivistic approach of predicting human behavior, it is often a more subjective process.
    • After this initial stage, however, researchers typically take one of two paths, which may be seen to varying degrees in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
    • While this initial step demonstrates nuanced variations in methodology, the approaches really begin to differ in relation to the second step - data collection.

  • After word

    • Work by researchers like Doug White and Duncan Watts promises to provide a continuing stream of new approaches and methodologies in the future.
    • And, perhaps most importantly, we have not touched on very much of the substance of the field of social networks -- only the methodologies.

  • Preface

    • Our goal in preparing this book is to provide a very basic introduction to the core ideas of social network analysis, and how these ideas are implemented in the methodologies that many social network analysts use.

  • Determining the Research Design

    • The research design is the methodology and procedure a researcher follows to answer their sociological question.
    • A research design encompasses the methodology and procedure employed to conduct scientific research.

  • Material Culture

    • Anthropologists thus distinguish between material culture and symbolic culture, not only because each reflects different kinds of human activity, but also because they constitute different kinds of data and require different methodologies to study.

  • Studying Sociology

    • Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter.

  • Sociology Today

    • The range of social scientific methodology has also expanded.