Key Terms and Understanding the Social World

Define each of the following key terms
and discuss the ways in which these
terms help us to understand the social
world

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Key Terms.......................................................................................................................................3
Quantitative and Qualitative research..........................................................................................3
Alienation....................................................................................................................................3
Mechanical and organic solidarity...............................................................................................4
Health and Well-being.................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Key Terms
Quantitative research
Quantitative is research method that is often used to gather information over the proposed
research topic. Quantitively research always relies on those data which are measure to examine
questionnaires about sample population. This research often uses by social scientists to observe
occurrences which affects individuals. This research provides high understating about people
attitudes and mindset through which it can find out needs of people in the social world. Both
qualitative and quantitative researches help researchers to understand emerging social issues like
common issue of all people in society through which researchers can easily create some creative
solutions to solve them. Thus, quantitative plays significant role in understating social world.
According to Rahman, (2020), quantitative research method involves in collecting and
analyzing non-numerical data in order to understand the opinions, concepts or experiences. It can
be applied to generate new ideas. It is quite easy method for application purpose because in this
method can use charts, graphs etc. which helps to understand figure of research questions and
makes interesting for the readers to read. This method is played vital role such as it offers best
available research in term of emerging issues or application of evidence to diverse population.
This research often start-up with the field then develops concept and theories. Thus, this research
involves in inductive view of the relationship between research and theory.
Alienation
Alienation can be defined as the procedure why which a social being or people is
disengaged from the society or social activities. In the philosophical concept, alienation refers to
the estrangement of people from themselves. This alienation takes place when people are unable
to relate with world in which they live. According to Belcher and Schmidt (2020) alienation is
not a false consciousness. There is various type of alienations but social alienation is more
famous as compared others because it is a kind of condition or situation in social relationships
that reflects by a common values and high degree distance. So, it is considered sociological
concept that is developed and proposed by several contempory theorists and classical. Thus, this
alienation term supports to understand how people are becoming socially isolated. It also
supports to find reasons over the proposed situation. Like social isolation in the modern society