The Sociological Research Process

The sociological research process is made up of seven steps, these seven steps are known as the Scientific Method. The Scientific Method is an organized series of steps that guarantees consistency in researching a problem. It starts with defining a problem. This is where you would try to determine whether or not the problem you wish to research and/ or solve is even possible. Social scientists use to call this process the operational definition; they would use this process to dissect the situation in order to determine if it was worth looking deeper into. Next, you would Review the Literature. This is the step where they try to determine how they will be conducting the experiment and collecting their data. They brainstorm how they can abstract …show more content…
This then branch into independent and dependent variables, as well as an argument known as cause vs. correlation. An independent variable is defined in our book as; a variable in a causal relationship that causes or influences a change in another variable. A dependent variable is defined as a variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable. Cause vs. Correlation is cause vs. effect. The causal logic is the relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence, with one leading the other. The cause is what you start your research with, you want a base or a beginner to then test verse what you are trying to prove. The element you are putting in place to hopefully change the initial element is the correlation, which is better defined as a relationship between two variables in which a change in one coincides with a change in the other; the …show more content…
This act is more commonly used with problems in society and what people act or feel. You can move to the street and ask random subjects to answer questions that will help you come to a conclusion or you can bring them to your facility to test them on your idea.

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The systematic coding and objective recording of data guided by some rationale. This is the process where you use past information to help come up with your conclusion. The book uses the example of society trying to inform future definitions of id the recend increase of enviormental change.

Once you decide how you want to collect the data you need to send out and collect it. After collecting the research needed you may need to go further in the research and continue looking at other books and researchers from the past to see where they came to a blockage in the research and determine how to go around this, to move past and succeed. You also are able to use previous information to build your research even further and in more