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    This document discusses different approaches to research in various fields of knowledge. It contrasts quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Quantitative research focuses on measurable facts and controls variables, while qualitative research is more naturalistic and people-oriented, collecting subjective data through interviews and observation. Both approaches are useful across fields, with qualitative research more common in social sciences and fields involving human experiences and behaviors. The document also notes there is no clear divide between hard and soft sciences, and different research approaches can be combined.

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    This document discusses different approaches to research in various fields of knowledge. It contrasts quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Quantitative research focuses on measurable facts and controls variables, while qualitative research is more naturalistic and people-oriented, collecting subjective data through interviews and observation. Both approaches are useful across fields, with qualitative research more common in social sciences and fields involving human experiences and behaviors. The document also notes there is no clear divide between hard and soft sciences, and different research approaches can be combined.

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    This document discusses different approaches to research in various fields of knowledge. It contrasts quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Quantitative research focuses on measurable facts and controls variables, while qualitative research is more naturalistic and people-oriented, collecting subjective data through interviews and observation. Both approaches are useful across fields, with qualitative research more common in social sciences and fields involving human experiences and behaviors. The document also notes there is no clear divide between hard and soft sciences, and different research approaches can be combined.

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    7/8/2019

    Subject Area Research Approaches


     Research studies happen in any field of
    knowledge.
     Scientific Approach gives stress to
    measurable and observable facts instead
    QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN of personal views, feelings or attitudes.
     It can be used in researches under the
    DIFFERENT AREAS OF hard sciences or STEM and natural
    KNOWLEDGE sciences.
     Allows control of variables or factors
    affecting the study (Laursen 2010)

    Subject Area Research Approaches Subject Area Research Approaches


     Collect data in controlled ways through  Naturalistic Approach is people oriented.
    questionnaires or structured interviews  Data collected represent personal views,
     Factual data collected are recorded in attitudes thoughts, emotions and other
    numerical or statistical forms using subjective traits of people in natural setting
    numbers, percentages, fractions  Collecting data is done in family, homes,
     Expressed in measurable ways, these types playground, workplaces or schools
    of data are called quantitative data.  Focuses on discovering the real concept or
    meaning behind people’s lifestyles and
    social relations

    Subject Area Research Approaches Subject Area Research Approaches


     Naturalistic Approach lets you present  Researchers use unstructured interviews and
    things in verbal language participant observation
     Qualitative data – exists in abundance in  Yield opinionated data through the use of
    social sciences, which to other exists as soft open-ended questions and actual
    sciences participation of researcher in subject’s
     Anthropology, Business Education, activities
    Economics, Law, Politics and all subjects  Serve as basis for determining universal social
    aligned with business and all those focused values to define ethical or unethical behavior
    on helping professions such as Nursing, that society ought to know, not only for the
    Counselling, Physical Therapy(Babbie 2013) benefit of every individual and community

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    Subject Area Research Approaches Subject Area Research Approaches


     Serve as basis for determining universal  In the field of Humanities, man’s social life is
    social values to define ethical or unethical also subjected to research studies
    behavior that society ought to know, not  Study of meanings, significance,
    only for the benefit of every individual and visualizations of human experiences in the
    community but also for the satisfaction of fields of Fine arts, Literature, Music, Drama,
    man’s quest for knowledge (Sarantakos Dance and other artistically inclined
    2013; Ransome 2013) subjects

    Subject Area Research Approaches Hard Sciences vs Soft Science


    1. Literature and Art Criticism  Triangulation or mixed method approach
    - interpretative and reflective thinking in allows a combination or a mixture of
    evaluating the object of their study critically research designs, data collection and
    2. Philosophical Research data analysis techniques.
    - knowledge and principles of being and  A qualitative or quantitative kind of
    on the manner human being conduct research is not exclusive to hard sciences
    themselves on earth or soft sciences.
    3. Historical Research  No clear dichotomy
    - events and ideas that took place in  A symbiotic relationship, in which they
    man’s life at a particular period reinforce or strengthen each other

    Hard Sciences vs Soft Science


     any form of knowledge, factual or
    opinionated and any statistical or verbal
    expression of this knowledge are deduced
    from human experience that by nature is
    subjective (Hollway 2013; Letherby 2013)

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