Research Methodology and Design for Understanding Social Implications of Decreased Divorce and Increased Marriage Rates in Singapore

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
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Research Agenda
The research focuses on better understanding of the social implications behind the
decreased rate of divorce and the increased rate of marriage. The aim of the research is to
develop a concise and detailed analysis of the social phenomenon with the help of a perfect
research methodology followed by the effective data collection procedure. The research
methodology will deal will the category or the types of techniques for conducting the
research.
According to Choy (2014) the methodology of the research is the process or the
procedure that helps in the conduction of the research in an organized and a systematic
manner. The methodology of the research allows for the understanding of the various
categories and the types of the techniques that will be beneficial for using in the research.
One of the major factor of the research agenda is the research philosophy which is
considered for analysing and develop of the study in detail. In the broader sense, there are
three types of the research philosophies namely the realism, interpretivism and positivism
(Lewis, 2015). The method of the interpretivism deals with the effective management of the
activities and the functions. The type of realism is a mixed approach of the philosophies of
the research.
In this particular research study, for the identification of the social agenda and the
reason behind the inversely proportional rate of increasing marriage rates and the decreasing
divorce rate in Singapore, positivism research philosophy will be utilised since it will be
beneficial for the researcher to investigate the social factor in a critical and logical manner
(Lu, Fan & Zhou, 2016). The other philosophies will not be used since they generally depend
on the perception of individual which might vary.

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Research design
Among the three categories of the research design, the exploratory, analytical and
explanatory research designs, only one of the research design will be implemented while
conducting the research. The analytical research design helps in the understanding and the
evaluation of the study in a descriptive way (Lewis, 2015). The exploratory design is
generally used for the understanding of the concept at a very initial stage while the
explanatory design is used for the effective development of the relation among the two
variables under the consideration. For this particular research study, the explanatory research
design will be used for gaining of a detailed idea regarding the connection among the two
variables under study, the marriage rate and the divorce rate in Singapore.
Research questions
RQ1. Why the divorce rates have decreased and the marriage rates have increased in
Singapore?
RQ2. What is the connection among the inversely proportional relationship among the rate of
the marriage and the rate of divorce in Singapore?
RQ3. Has the decreasing rate of divorce influenced the increasing rate of marriages in the
country?
Data collection
This particular research study will depend on the collection of both the primary source
of data and the secondary source of data. The primary data will be collected by various
sources like the online survey, one to one interview process and the distribution of the open
ended questionnaire among the citizens of the country of a particular place within the