The Round Table and Research
| Autor: | Murray G. Ross |
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| Rok vydání: | 1957 |
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| Zdroj: | University of Toronto Quarterly. 26:256-267 |
| ISSN: | 1712-5278 0042-0247 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/utq.26.2.256 |
| Popis: | There has been a tendency in the social sciences to believe that statistical methods, control groups or situations, questionnaires and schedules, etc., constitute the essence of research. These are extremely valuable techniques used in one type of modern research, but they are by no means the only methods available to the researcher. There has developed in recent years, in fact, a reaction to the almost complete reliance on the tabulating machine in social science, and to the tendency to isolate smaller and smaller variables, and to study these in the greatest possible detail. Social scientists are becoming increasingly aware that there are a wide variety of research methods, and that even larger and more general problems may yield to at least partial solution by appropriate methods of investigation. More important for us here is the recognition that there are many ways in which knowledge may be advanced and truth discovered. If we had been, or were now, restricted in what we know to the results of scientific research, we wonld, indeed, be an intellectually impoverished people. |
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