Making sense of society: Understanding the social world

Making sense of society
understanding the social
world

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1.....................................................................................................................................3
Qualitative and quantitative research...........................................................................................3
Alienation....................................................................................................................................3
Mechanical and organic solidarity...............................................................................................4
Health and well-being..................................................................................................................5
SECTION 2.....................................................................................................................................5
Role and impact of media in Contemporary society...................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

SECTION 1
Ways in which these terms help in understanding the social world:
Qualitative and quantitative research
Qualitative research: qualitative research is the research which is expressed in Word
format and not in the statistical data representation. It is the research which is done to understand
the concepts and thoughts of the experience which is done in the world format. qualitative
research enables to gather the in depth insights of any particular topic which are not well
understood. The basic examples of qualitative method of research are the interviews with open
ended questions and observations which are described in words. Literature review is also one of
the qualitative method of research that explored the concept and theories of a particular topic.
Quantitative research: quantitative research is the researchers just expressed and done in
the numbers and the graphical representation of data it is used to test the theories in other
missions of the research of numerical data. this research helps in establishing the facts of
generalized data on a particular topic. The best example of quantitative method of research are
the experiment, and the observations which are recorded in the numerical form of data and the
survey which have close ended questions. it is very important and the data analysis is done in the
SPSS format (Shareia, 2016).
The difference between qualitative and quantitative research are there both works in
different format while quantitative work in numerical data representation in qualitative work in
Word format. qualitative research requires few respondent in terms to do the research and on the
other hand quantitative research require more respondent’s compared to qualitative research.
qualitative research other understanding and subjective, quantitative research items are the
testing, measurements and replica ability of data (Oflazoglu, 2017).
Alienation
Alienation in context to social world can also be termed as social alienation which is a
condition in social relationship that is highly reflected by low degree of common value and
integration and high degree of isolation or distance between various individual, or between group
of people and individual in a working environment or can be in community. It is sociological
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