Abstract:
Over the years there has been a gradual growth in social science research and this has jolted the academic world, postgraduate students are faced with the highly esteemed tasks to producing dissertations and thesis that meet the contemporary methodological requirements. The aim of this research paper is to shed more light on social science research methods and its philosophical alignments/approach and the obstacles that hinder its use, especially when it is about measuring societal values and interactions. To this end, a detailed explanation of the stages of research in the social sciences as well as the difficulties related to the nature of the sociological disciplinary field are put forward, in order to define the objective posture that the researcher must adopt.
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