M inistry o f Higher and Secondary Specialized Education o f the Republic o f Uzbekistan

What is a Social Research?
1)
_________________ . It greatly differs from the one
in past in its different aspects and issues. Nowadays 
hum anity has already faced a global social affect in 
people’s personal or professional lives and activities. 
No state can survive without formulated, civilized 
society. Unless society is studied thoroughly in a 
number o f levels, it may become a “
hard stone”
to 
rule over. T hat is why it is an essential m atter to hold 
special social researches to find out the dem ands or 
needs o f society.
Social 
researches 
are 
specific 
methods 
o f 
investigation, 
scrutinizing
, involving which aim 
at getting proper solutions to various problematic, 
complicated, 
decrepit
, disputable questions. Social 
research involved the interaction between ideas
and evidences. 2) ___________________. Social
research thus attem pts to create or validate theories 
through data collection and data analysis, and its 
goal is exploration, description, explanation, and 
prediction. It should never lead or be mistaken 
with philosophy or belief. Social research aim s to 
find social patterns o f regularity in social life and
usually deals with social groups 
(aggregates
of 
individuals), not individuals themselves. Research 
can also be divided into pure research and applied 
research. Pure research has no application to real 
life, w hereas applied research attem pts to influence 
the real world.
Social researches are conducted by social scientists 
that are responsible not only for holding them but for 
the content, objectiveness, appropriateness. Social 
researches should be envisaging future development.
3) 
__________________ . Social research methods
can generally 
vary along
a quantitative/qualitative 
dimension. Q uantitative designs approach social 
phenom ena through quantifiable 
evidence
, and 
often rely on statistical analysis o f many cases 
(or across intentionally designed treatm ents in an 
experiment) to create 
valid
and reliable general 
claims, related to quantity. Qualitative designs 
em phasize understanding o f social phenomena 
through direct observation, communication with