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Unit-4: Ethical Issues in Social Research

sensex method would be possible and which questions should be included to have maximum notes
exactness etc. should be very clear to a scholar.
2. Understanding of Person, Time and Place: to suddenly go and meet a person and try to get
information would give useless or doubtful results. A scholar should know whom to approach
, what time to approach and where to get maximum correct information. He should know
that a businessman cannot give information about a plane, during a function people will not
talk about their family life and a thief will not talk about his acts near a police station. so to
be aware of the person, time and place is an important quality of a research scholar.
3. Training and Experience: It is not sufficient to leave a person at the study centre to collect
information unless he has experience or is trained for this. on the basis of his training and
experience and familiarity with the methods and problems only will take a scholar to his
ultimate aim.
4. Organizational Capacity: A successful and able scholar should have this ability to organize.
research is not an easy task, it requires a proper organization. social organizations require
more than one person, a scholar should know which worker should be given which task
to obtain best result. inter Disciplinary Approach is being used in most social researches
which requires help and corporation from experts of different sciences. A scholar should
know how can he get maximum help and corporation for his work, this depends on his
organizational capacity.
5. resourcefulness: Modern researchers require different instruments like camera, tape
recorder, maps apart from finances. A scholar should have all these and he should know
their uses as well. sometimes he needs to take help from government or non-government
officials. it is important that a scholar should be able to approach them, this proves helpful
for his work, and ensures the resourcefulness of the scholar.

4.6 Qualities Related to Scientific Spirit

A scholar should have scientific spirit to get success, this is based on following qualities –
1. curiosity: Curiosity is very important for a researcher, he should be curious to know, to
unravel the mysteries and should be attracted towards new things, all this helps in research.
A research aims for a new information which cannot be fulfilled without a tendency for
curiosity.
2. objective point of View: For scientific research, being objective is important otherwise a
scholar will not see the actual incidents in their actual form and maybe biased. Scientific
approach is also needed for a true conclusion, without this the truth cannot be verified and
the whole process can turn into failure. Thus scientific point of view is important because to
find out truth and facts can be possible only by being immune to different people, opinions
and emotions, with a scientific approach only.
the above-mentioned explanations make it clear that a successful and good researcher scholar needs to
have more than one qualities. it does not mean that all the scholars are equipped with all the qualities
and nor it can be defined in any final list, but it can be said that research is not an easy task. It can not
be done by just anybody. experienced, capable, skillful and dedicated people are required for this.

self assessment

fill in the blanks:
1. ___________ requires various other resources such as maps, cameras and taperecorders
apart from money.

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