Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences

This document provides an introduction to quantitative research methods in the social sciences, specifically focusing on questionnaire and survey methods. It discusses the use of these methods to understand people's views, opinions, and behaviors, and highlights their strengths and limitations. The document also includes references to relevant books and journals.

Quantitative research methods
in the social sciences

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Quantitative research method helps scholar in identifying people view,
suggestion, opinion and feedback with the help of questionnaire, poles,
survey, interview etc. In social science researcher use this method in social
to understand the human behaviour.
Main Body
There are two types of quantitative research method, namely questionnaire
and survey.
In questionnaire method researcher of social try to understand group
of selected people who are associated with field or experience it (Rutberg
and Bouikidis, 2018). In social and health care ask question related to health,
lifestyle, behaviour belief etc. It helps to understand perspective of this
people related to issue or question raise in questionnaire for example How
many persons in your family suffer from diabetic or is there any past history
associated with it. After analysing this, scholar can give average opinion on
his research and also suggest the way in which it can handle (Queirós, Faria
and Almeida, 2017).
Survey will be on masses rather than particular people and help
company in getting better result from all and there will be fewer chances of
biasing. In social science and Health case scholar or the company or anyone
which want large data for evaluation (Linh, 2020). Question are generally
associate that affect large number of people life for example survey on
COVID virus on human life.
Questionnaire Method Survey Method
 It will conduct on limited
person.
 Issues generally focus on
specific people life for example
village life of a particular place.
 It can be biased (Dorrington
and et.al., 2017)
 Generally conducted on large
population.
 It focuses on life of all people
that are in different areas
(Goertzen, 2017).
 Biasing cannot be possible as it
is not specific
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that surveys are not specific to group in social
science while questionnaire can be biased and result cannot be accurate.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Dorrington, S and et.al., 2017. Fit note use in UK clinical practice 2010–2016: A systematic
review of quantitative research. European Psychiatry, 41(S1), pp.S618-S618.
Goertzen, M.J., 2017. Introduction to quantitative research and data. Library Technology
Reports, 53(4).pp.12-18.
Linh, N.T., 2020. A note on quantitative research.
Queirós, A., Faria, D. and Almeida, F., 2017. Strengths and limitations of qualitative and
quantitative research methods. European Journal of Education Studies.
Rutberg, S. and Bouikidis, C.D., 2018. Focusing on the fundamentals: A simplistic
differentiation between qualitative and quantitative research. Nephrology Nursing
Journal.45.(2).pp.209-213.

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