Exam 7: Understanding Research Methodology and Design

Longitudinal research is research that takes place:

It is important that you are knowledgeable enough generally about research methodology to be able to select the most appropriate research methodology for your research.

All of the elements of the research project have to:

A phenomenological research methodology is used in the social sciences to examine lived experience. Phenomenology is the study of lived experience from the first-person point of view. It is the study of experience or consciousness. Using a phenomenological research methodology the researcher spends a great deal of time developing accounts of lived experience from the perspective of those living the experience.

What is meant by the notion of 'fit' in relation to the research project?

What does the methodological pyramid illustrate?

Image-based research is the use of images in social research. Using this research methodology, a researcher can draw on data from photographs, film, videos, advertising, cartoons, drawings, maps, charts, and any other kind of image.

The research methodologies must fit with the fundamental philosophies of the research project, and the data collection methods must fit with the project's research methodology.

Data collection methods are a part of:

The researcher becomes quite expert in:

In the research process, the research methodology comes after the:

A simple definition of case study methodology is that it is the in-depth study of a bounded entity.

The researcher becomes quite expert on the methodology that they use in their research project.

A survey methodology is the best research methodology to use in business research.

Experimental Design is the methodology used when conducting experiments. True experiments are rarely conducted in business research or in social science research generally. This is because of the difficulties in controlling for all the different variables in social science situations and phenomena. Properly designed experiments can be very effective in laboratories or in laboratory conditions. Laboratory conditions are difficult to replicate in the social world or in the study of social phenomena research.

The methodological framework emerges from:

Survey methodology is useful with large populations and populations that are:

The research methodology s the philosophical framework for:

The different research methodologies and the different data collection methods are all tools of the trade in social research. The skilled researcher is able to use the tools expertly and creatively.

We know from our reading of the earlier chapters in the textbook, that the decision on the methodology to be used in a research project is informed by the focus of the research, the research question or statement, and it is informed by the type of data required to answer the research question or to inform the research statement and the location of that data.