The process of research in the field of sociology

In the context research activities to acquire data for the preparation of a scientific method we know it in the research. In its website, Wikipedia writes that "The research methodology is a set of rules, activities, and procedures used by the perpetrators of a discipline. The methodology is also a theoretical analysis of the manner or method ". 

While the definition of research, a systematic investigation to increase the amount of knowledge, is also a systematic and organized effort to investigate specific issues that need answers. Nature of the research can be understood by studying the various aspects of the encourages research to do research. Two of the most common things we know in this research is to use qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Let us discuss what is meant by these two methods in the study:

Qualitative methods. This method is a method of prioritizing research materials that are difficult to measure with numbers but the facts contained in the community. Included in this is the historical comparative method (comparative history) and Case Study (Review of the cases).

 
Quantitative methods. This method is a method of prioritizing substances with a description of the figures so that the observed symptoms can be measured using the scale-scale, index, and so on with a little more to use an exact science.

In the conduct of research methods, many research participants or researchers to use existing methods above. They usually do such methods simultaneously to shorten the time and cost, but not all objects of research can be done at once. This means that not all objects of research can be studied with a variety of tools, anyone can be at once a tool only, or more than one instrument.

 
Included in this quantitative method is statistical and experimental. Both qualitative and quantitative methods, many are also used in social fields. So, not only in the field of sciences heksakta such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, health and so forth. This method can also be done to investigate the phenomena of society. In studies with both qualitative and quantitative methods are techniques or particular ways, among others, which is often used in sociology research are as follows:

Intervieuw (Interview). The way to obtain data that are expected to have an interview between the researcher with the researched.

Enquette (Questionnaire). The way to acquire data or particulars by submitting a list of questions that have been prepared in accordance with the objects expected to be the target of the study.

Method of participation (participants). That is a way in research, in which the researchers involved and take part on the object of social research carried out, for example, to examine the norms of criminal investigators sin portray himself as a prisoner and the life in prison.