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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit-8: Types of Research Design : Exploratory and Descriptive

Unit-8: Types of Research Design : notes

Exploratory and Descriptive

contents

objectives
introduction
8.1 exploratory or formulative research
8.2. Descriptive research
8.3 summary
8.4 Keywords

8.5. review Questions
8.6 further readings

objectives

After studying this unit students will be able to learn:
y Understand the meaning of exploratory research
y Understand the meaning and qualities of descriptive research

introduction

social research studies are found to be different on various basis. few researches are done to get
knowledge, few are done for curiosity, few aim for building objectivities while few are done to verify
the objectivities. Some research aims for describing an incident, few are done to find out solutions of
social problems, few are done to find out effects of social changes and to finally increase the progress
the social welfare programs.
According to different aims and reasons there can be different types of social researches-

8.1 Exploratory or Formulative Research

A scholar tries to find out the reason behind any social event so that he can get the principal and
applied knowledge about the subject, to study this the type of research which is done is called
exploratory or formulative research. the objective of this type of research is to get primary information
to form a hypothesis and to format the studies. A scholar named Hansraj has said, “exploratory
research is necessary to create a hypothesis and to get related experience”. this type of research make
the subject and the reason of the problem. As a result of this all the events can be understood regularly.
it also tells about the suitability of the research. for example, if you want to know the reason of the
criminal behaviour in adolescents and young, then we can take the help of exploratory research.
to ascertain the success of the research certain conditions are required. in another words these should
be taken care of:

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