Making Sense of Society

Making Sense of
Society
(Understanding the Social
World)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1 – SOCIAL WORLD....................................................................................................3
Qualitative and Quantitative Research...................................................................................3
Alienation...............................................................................................................................4
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity........................................................................................4
Health and Well-Being...........................................................................................................5
SECTION 2 – ESSAY.....................................................................................................................5
Introduction............................................................................................................................5
Main Body..............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Society is an integral part of the world through which it functions and works in respective
manner (Chambliss and Schutt, 2018). There are number of societies present in the world which
are incorporated by number of factors and influence the world and its development. The present
work is elaborating on certain aspects of the social world and the contemporary society. The
work is divided into two section one conducts detailed information on the certain topics like
alienation, research techniques and others. In the second section of the report an essay is
presented on the topic “Role and Impact of social media in contemporary society”.
SECTION 1 – SOCIAL WORLD
Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Qualitative research involves collecting and analysing non-numerical information and
data from primary and secondary sources for example text, video, or audio with the focus kept on
understanding the concepts, opinions, notion and experiences. The process or the research
technique is used to gather in depth insights and critical knowledge on a specific problem and
also supports in generating new ideas for research and development. Qualitative research is
commonly used tools in the humanities and social sciences. The subject areas supported are like
anthropology, sociology, education, health sciences and history.
One major and specific feature of qualitative research and techniques used for collecting
data is, it is a source which uses open ended tools and conversational communication methods
for making evaluation and rendering appropriate results of the research.
Quantitative research is defined as a systematic approach and phenomena for conducting
investigation for gathering quantifiable data performs statistical, mathematical and computational
techniques. Quantitative research collects data from those sources which are already existing and
through potential customers of the entity using sampling methods and conducting online or
offline surveys, online polls, questionnaires, etc. The results of collected data and information
through different quantifiable tools are then be used for depicting results in the form of numbers
and digits. Once data is gathered after that careful understanding of these numbers is performed
for making prediction about the future of a product or service and make changes accordingly.
Qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative research, as it involves collecting and
analysing numerical data for statistical analysis.