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This article proposes a research methodology which can be used in social science research. Research in the social sciences has passed from the nose-counting through the testing and checking stages to a certain widespread and widely accepted standardization in both terminology and methodology. However, when a formal scientific pattern was sought to describe routinely and standardized physical features, natural and human resources of a sharply circumscribed region, it was found that in spite of a multitude of statistics, rarely any comparable pattern could be developed. The following suggested framework for a comprehensive descriptive summary of a political sub-division is by no means the only possible one. However, it has been used successfully, and it is suggested that it can be adopted especially for societies in the transition from the pre-industrial to the urbanized stage. Committed to the principle that without social research, no social policy, and without social policy, no social action is possible, a scheme was proposed and hammered out in lectures and conferences, which was referred to as geographic educational distribution quotient. According to this scheme, a standardized county description could be developed by the sociology and education departments of the state university, which would be distributed to the four-year colleges, from there to the two-year colleges, to the high schools and even to elementary schools. |
