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nature of societies, on the relation between social and biological realms, and on the general march of progress. Social Research is connected with the social life. The two cannot be separated. Social research is in fact a part of the scientific study/approach. Social research investigates and verifies social phenomena and social realities, the facts about social life and formulates laws this regard. After the laws have been formulated, investigation is carried out and interrelationships between various facts and laws is established. Through these steps we are able to collect data and knowledge about society. It provides scientific knowledge about social problems and helps the researcher to find out solutions to them. In brief, the goal of social research primarily is to explore and gain an understanding of human behaviour. Thus, social research as the following characteristics: Social Research is related to social Life Social Research investigates and verifies facts about the society and social interactions Social Research formulates laws in regard to different social phenomena and the principles that guide these phenomena It tries to investigate the relationship that exists between various facts and phenomena of social life.
A research aims to establish a scientific knowledge. Hence the purpose of social science research is to establish scientific, empirical knowledge about the human society. Thus, the scope of social research centers on the use of scientific method for the establishment of scientific knowledge of the society with the use of a scientific method. Scientific method is characterized by verifiability, ethical neutrality, accuracy, precision, objectivity, and it is systematic, its production based on probability. The scope and method of social research is both wide ad complex because it involves the comprehension of social reality whose nature is very complex unlike the physical reality. Social research also covers the field of social planning as social research guides the social planning process. Adequate social planning depends for its success on the systematic knowledge of the social resources and liabilities. Social planning requires a store of reliable factual knowledge on whose basis the blueprints may be designed. Providing such a scientific knowledge falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of social research. Control of social power also falls, although indirectly, under the scope of social research. Since knowledge is a particular kind of power, social research gives a greater power of control over the social phenomena. Dispelling the trust of outworn assumptions, superstitions and stereotypes by providing scientific and enlightening knowledge is something, which too falls within the scope and domain of social research. Social research also has a direct implication for social welfare. By virtue of the deeper understanding of the causal nexus underlying various social maladies, social research provides and can provide a secure basis for effective remedial measures. Thus social welfare also falls within te scope of social research. It is also the scope of social research to provide prediction about social phenomena by way of ascertaining some order among facts. Thus, by prediction, social research has the effect of initiating and guiding social
growth towards cherished goals of the society. These may be summed up as some important matters that fall within the scope of social research.