Social research

In a research paper, some professors recommend their students to add an abstract to their research topics. An abstract is a brief summary on outlining the importance ideas in a research paper. Scholars stated that a research paper should have a title and an abstract of no more than 150 words (Anonymous, 2002). Although an abstract is the first paper before the introduction, it is highly recommended to write the abstract last because it will allow the writer to grasp important ideas to their…

issues arise in the several areas.When gathering information, research is required to better conditions by providing any piece of research that is likely to help community indirectly or directly; it is allowed to ask a question.Unethical arises when this social scientist is not able to justify the relevance of the research and so wasting the time of respondents can is what becomes unethical. In seeking consent, in every discipline of research its is unethical for researchers to gather…

The Use of Observation and Visual Methods to explore Social Inclusion on Campus Introduction Observation and visual methods are increasingly gaining recognition for their use in qualitative research. Also referred to as ethnographic or photovoive research methods, they are considered as studies that offer an opportunity to get an orientation into the native cultures, practices as well as an understanding of the social setting through observations, learning of local language and participating in…

A Critique: Quantitative Research Study In their article, The relationship between nurses' perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction, Donahue, Piazza, Griffin, Dykes, and Fitzpatrick (2008) utilize a descriptive correlational design to describe nurses’ perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction and to identify and examine relationships among these variables (Grove, Gray, and Burns, 2015). In their introduction to the article, the authors cite the need for nurse executives to…

Due to the increased number of retractions in the psychology journals and release of the news story of a famed social psychologist fabricating data leading to more than 50 retracted papers in the recent years, there has been a lot of speculation and criticism surrounding the fields of psychology and social sciences. In light of this, a newer initiative called the Reproducibility Project at the University of Virginia reran 100 psychology experiments that were published in three leading psychology…

the weeks leading up to September 20th, I was working on a research paper for my Writing 101 class. I decided my papers topic should be on solitary confinement almost right of the bat, but that eventually turned out to be problematic. I looked at everything I could find on solitary confinement, even things that were similar to solitary confinement, so I could have the best understanding as possible on the subject. Unfortunately, my research assignment became extremely difficult due to me not…

taken-for-granted social contexts and circumstances that shape participant’s live emotionally, physically, political safety, and their well-being. While Wingfield (2009), pseudonyms were employed in order to ensure the safety and confidentiality of research participant. A researcher should be an engaged listener. Owen (2012), state that the importance of been an engaged listener is to encourage the respondent to continue speaking. For example, simple head nods or quiet sounds…

The qualities of a research question: There are several qualities of research question and these includes: clear, concise, elegant, theoretically rich and. grammatically correctness, Bryman (2007: 6) textbook writers have almost ritualistically extoled the significance and importance of the clear research questions. This consequently means that if the research question is not good enough, the research is bound to fail. A clear research question should be clear so that other people can easily…

investigation is a research method that using self-administered questionnaires or structured interviews that systematic and direct collect data from a sample and study some social phenomenon and rules by analysing statistical data (Saunders 2011). So in order to study the role of social media marketing in the promotion of the Chinese film industry, this research chooses to use the questionnaire to conduct data collection which could be a better a way to know the development of this new social…

implemented into anthropological research to guarantee that participants are protected. Research which is not reviewed by the Research Ethics Boards which protect their participants from harm often lead to cases in which groups of people…