After reading this article you will learn about the relevance of history for social research. A group of thinkers, during the relatively brief period in which social science has been recognized as a disciplined form of intellectual endeavour, has tried to effect a rigid differentiation between what are conventionally known as social sciences, like sociology and economics on the one [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the structures and unstructured interviews used for conducting social research. The Structured Interviews: Such interviews involve the use of a set of pre-determined questions and highly standardized techniques of recording. The reasons for standardization is to ensure that all respondents reply to the same questions; that is, any given question has the [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the interview method of conducting social research. Advantages of the Interview Method: (1) The personal interviews, compared especially to questionnaires usually yield a high percentage of returns. (2) The interview method can be made to yield an almost perfect sample of the general population because practically everyone [...]