Six Steps of Social Research

College Classwork: Intro to Sociology Chapters 1 and 2 Six Steps of Social Research

 

What are the six steps of social research? Explain why we have to follow the steps step-by-step in social research.

 After first deciding what topic you want to find out more about, there are more steps to get you toward an answer.

Step 2: Reviewing the literature to gain a better understanding of the topic for research.

Step 3: Ask what do I want to prove or disprove? Forming a Hypothesis is step 3.

Step 4: Data collection is fairly self-explanatory. Collecting the data wanted for the research you are doing now - this is the important part.

Step 5: Analyzing the results of your research to make sense of it all is the next step. Making graphs, charts, or grids gains a visual perspective.

Step 6: Publish and share your research, findings, and procedure to allow others the ability to possibly duplicate your findings or to continue your research in another direction or where you left off.

Following steps, order and pattern out each theory we try to gain a deeper understanding of. As Sociologists, we need to follow a stable formula each time we carry through on a hypothesis to conclude our research. Research must be recorded, being able to duplicate steps, so patterns may emerge.

 

Stephanie Haile