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Methodology of Social Research

notes (1) Publicity or sensational survey—these types of surveys are done for the purpose to create
awareness in people or for the publicity of any non-material thing. this type of survey is very
profitable for making government schemes successful because the view of public and sentiments of
public can be known through survey and according to that aspect of planning can be decided. (2)
fact-collecting survey—When the survey is done for the purpose of collecting only data related to
any social-phenomenon or problem then it is called fact-collecting survey. this type of survey can be
of two types, first is scientific and second, practical. In scientific survey data are collected for gaining
only knowledge related to any phenomena or for the testing of principles. the purpose of practical
surveys are to collect important data for the solution of any social problem.
Herbert Hyman stated the following types of social survey- (A) Descriptive survey—the survey which
is done for the purpose of presenting descriptive analysis of any social incident, social arrangement,
social nature-pattern, habit-pattern or social process. (B) explanatory theoretical or experimental
survey—surveys used for describing the inherent work in any social incident or problem or predicting
the principles or studying through experimental method comes under this category. these types of
surveys themselves are of four types—first is called—evaluative or Programmative survey. the
immediate purpose of these surveys is the necessary improvement in social incident or problem
on the basis of knowledge of factors searched through study, the building of project for clean-up or
change. therefore, this type of survey is also called Programmative survey. second type is called
Diagnostic survey in which solution of any problem is searched. in other words, the survey arranged
for finding the reasons of problem for solving that problem is called Diagnostic Survey. Third type is
called Prediction survey in which the purpose of study is to predict in relation to the future activity of
any social phenomenon. fourth type is called secondary Analysis survey. Unless the surveyor takes
benefit from the material of past surveys for collecting the data for throwing light on his subject or
problem and searches new rules on the basis of them then that is called secondary Analysis survey.

self assessment
fill in the blanks:
1. Publicity research
2. this type of _______ is very fruitful to success the government schemes.
3. When survey is done only to collect data then it is called __________ survey.
Besides the following types of surveys, some other types of surveys are the following:
1. census survey—in this type of survey information is gained by making contact with some subject
or related persons or all censuses. in other words, in this type of survey instead of studying by
selecting some samples from whole census all is believed to be unit of study and conclusion is made
by collecting information from them. study of very small or limited community is done by this type
of survey, but for large community’s excessive money, time and workers are needed and to carry that
load is only possible for government or any endowed organization. in india, after every ten years this
type of survey is done by government which is called Census and in which important information is
obtained about every family and person.
2. Sample Survey—this survey is much different form of census survey and it is in this sense that in
this instead of studying each unit of census only those units are studied which can properly represent
the whole census and so the result obtained by studying these samples is made applicable to the whole
census. this type of survey is done during the study of modern complicated and massive communties
since it is quite difficult to study all people or units of detailed field. Hence from the entire population
only some percentage of units are chosen and only these are studied and results are derived from
this sample of units.

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