POLS2009 Study Guide - Final Guide: Session 9, Emergence, International Political Sociology
14 Jun 2020
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Research is a social and intellectual activity that involves systematic inquiry aimed at describing and explaining the world. The research for published sources describing the results of research or information provided by others. The original collection or analysis of data to answer a new research question or to produce new knowledge. Primary data collection of new data to provide a description or explanation of the world. Secondary data data collected by other such as existing government surveys, administrative records or transcript. Research evidence is very uncertain because it is expressed in the form of probability statements or qualified conclusions. Research reports talk about the results indicating this or that, suggesting that something is true, or showing that an outcome was likely, due to a presumed cause. Generalizability is the ability to the take the results of research and apply them in situations other than the exact one in which the research was carried out.
