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Unit-8: Types of Research Design : Exploratory and Descriptive

in this condition that information of different aspects of social life is collected and presented in front of notes
people. the stress is given on collection of information related to the subject is real and trustworthy,
otherwise the explanation would be philosophical instead of scientific. If we do not have information
about the social life of any group, cast or community, then it is important that real facts are collected
through scientific method. Different methods of collection, for example, interview, questionnaire,
survey or any other method can be used.

Did You Know? the purpose of these methods is to collect real information. this type of
research requires events to be described in their real form.

Specialties of Descriptive Research

Descriptive research has following specialties:
(i) Different aspects of a subject or problem is highlighted in this research.
(ii) if a subject is not studied earlier then descriptive research is considered suitable for this.
(iii) A hypothesis is not created in this study.
(iv) Descriptive research has similar steps of scientific methods which means carefully choosing
the subject, correct use of methods, respondents are chosen according to directive methods
collecting real facts and to analyze conclusions which are unbiased.
(v) A role of a research scholar in descriptive research is not of a social reformer or predictor
but of a scientist or unbiased analyst.

Points to be Considered in Research

these are the important points of descriptive research:
(i) A subject should be chosen carefully so that all the important and dependable facts could
be collected.
(ii) To give a scientific base to research carefully chosen methods, for collection of truth, are
important.
(iii) it is important for descriptive research to have an objective point of view because there is a
probability of favouritism, biases, apprehensions to enter into the field of studies. A research
scholar should restrain himself to make his work attractive at the cost of objectivity.
(iv) Descriptive research is quiet vast, so it is important to be economical in the terms of time and
money. Lot of money is required so it should not be used on matters unimportant.

Steps of Descriptive Research

these are the following steps for success of descriptive research work.
1. Formulating the Objective of the Study—Aims of research are determined first then they
are defined. Basic questions related to research are cleared, this ensures misuse of money,
labour and unnecessary collection of facts.

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