Title: TOPIC 3: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH PROCESS
Course: PUB 620: Social Science Research

TOPIC DESCRIPTION

The aim of the topic is to enable you develop knowledge and skills of social science research processes such as how to identify a research problem and formulate and justify the social science research.

This topic covers:

- Formulation of research topic, research gap/problem, objectives and/or propositions and hypothesis
- Methods, types of data, sources of data, unit of inquiry and Management, data analysis techniques, and report writing
- Social science research models (comparative design/methods, case study, longitudinal survey, snap shot survey, pilot study, quasi-experimental, historical design, and ethnographic design) in their research projects

Intended learning outcomes:

At the end of this topic, you will be able to:

· Describe where social science research problems are formulated from and how

· Explain how research objectives, hypotheses/propositions are formulated

· Distinguish research problems from other problems

.Formulate research problems, objectives, hypotheses/propositions and conceptual framework