Article author:
Ostoja Barašin
Year the article was released:
2023
Edition in this Year:
2
Article abstract:
PROBLEMS OF UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Abstract: The research in social sciences is still very much present in the academic
world. This paper is another eff ort that tries to shed light on the methodology of research
in social sciences with the detection of obstacles that interfere with its use, especially regarding
values. This paper will explain the nature of research practice in social sciences
as well as the diffi culties regarding the research method, which would defi ne the objective
holding that a researcher has to implement. Furthering from the subject of study
is, for that matter, needed especially regarding the values, because very little research
in this fi eld is of so-called “pure nature”. For that matter, very few people explore the
methodology by itself because most of the research is applied research, which is widely
used in multiple disciplines. Each science uses diff erent research methods in the areas of
its research. They use the methods and procedures that were developed by the research
methodologists with the goal of increment of understanding of their own sciences and
further development of the base of social knowledge, as well as strengthening and improving
their own science. This callback on the methodology of research is focused, primarily
on, the aspect of scientifi c research, and that is the very methodology the scientifi c
research follows with the goal of eliminating mistakes that quite a few researchers make,
disregarding the diff erence between the method and the methodology. A great number of
defi nitions of methodology confi rm its complex nature but also state the fact that methodology
can be observed with theoretical, technical, and organizational aspects. The theoretical
aspect implies the questioning of laid-out hypotheses, theories, comprehensions,
styles, terminology, etc. Technical aspects relate to the process of gathering, observing,
arranging, and measuring the data, while the organizational aspect relates to securing
the rational technology in implementing scientifi c research.
world. This paper is another eff ort that tries to shed light on the methodology of research
in social sciences with the detection of obstacles that interfere with its use, especially regarding
values. This paper will explain the nature of research practice in social sciences
as well as the diffi culties regarding the research method, which would defi ne the objective
holding that a researcher has to implement. Furthering from the subject of study
is, for that matter, needed especially regarding the values, because very little research
in this fi eld is of so-called “pure nature”. For that matter, very few people explore the
methodology by itself because most of the research is applied research, which is widely
used in multiple disciplines. Each science uses diff erent research methods in the areas of
its research. They use the methods and procedures that were developed by the research
methodologists with the goal of increment of understanding of their own sciences and
further development of the base of social knowledge, as well as strengthening and improving
their own science. This callback on the methodology of research is focused, primarily
on, the aspect of scientifi c research, and that is the very methodology the scientifi c
research follows with the goal of eliminating mistakes that quite a few researchers make,
disregarding the diff erence between the method and the methodology. A great number of
defi nitions of methodology confi rm its complex nature but also state the fact that methodology
can be observed with theoretical, technical, and organizational aspects. The theoretical
aspect implies the questioning of laid-out hypotheses, theories, comprehensions,
styles, terminology, etc. Technical aspects relate to the process of gathering, observing,
arranging, and measuring the data, while the organizational aspect relates to securing
the rational technology in implementing scientifi c research.
Keywords: Science, methodology, methods, research