CONCEPTS OF RESEARCH
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This document discusses what research is and is not. It states that research is a systematic search for new knowledge, moving from the known to the unknown, as defined by several experts. The objectives of research are to discover new facts, verify important facts, analyze phenomena to identify relationships, develop new tools and theories, solve problems, and overcome life's problems. The document also discusses common motivations for doing research such as obtaining degrees, employment, solving challenges, gaining recognition, and serving society.
CONCEPTS OF RESEARCH
- 1. By: AARDHRA GOWRY KERALA UNIVERSITY OF FISHERIES AND OCEAN STUDIES
- 2. WHAT RESEARCH IS NOT… • Research isn’t information gathering: – Gathering information from resources such books or magazines isn’t research. – No contribution to new knowledge. • Research isn’t the transportation of facts: – Merely transporting facts from one resource to another doesn’t constitute research. – No contribution to new knowledge although this might make existing knowledge more accessible
- 3. RESEARCH.. • Research is a logical and systematic search for new and useful information on a particular topic. • Research in common parlance refers to a search for knowledge. • Research is a movement from the known to the unknown.
- 4. Some Definitions.. • Research refers to a critical & exhaustive investigation of experimentation having as its aim the revision of accepted conclusions in the light of new discovered facts. - Encyclopedia of Social Science • Research is a careful inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles, a diligent investigation to ascertain something. - Clifford Woody
- 5. • Research is an Endeavour to discover, develop & verify knowledge. It is an intellectual process that has developed over hundreds of years, even changing in purpose & form & always search for the truth. -Francis Rummel • Research is a systematic & refined technique of thinking, employing specialized tools, instruments and procedures in order to obtain a more adequate solution to a problem than would be possible under ordinary means. It starts with a problem, collects data, analyses them critically & reach decision based on actual evidence. - C.C Crawford
- 6. Objectives of Research • The prime objectives of research are • (1) to discover new facts • (2) to verify and test important facts • (3) to analyze an event or process or phenomenon to identify the cause and effect relationship • (4) to develop new scientific tools, concepts and theories to solve and understand scientific and nonscientific problems
- 7. CONT… • (5) to find solutions to scientific, nonscientific and social problems and • (6) to overcome or solve the problems occurring in our every day life
- 8. What Makes People do Research? • No person would like to do research unless there are some motivating factors. Some of the motivations are the following: 1. To get a research degree (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)) along with its benefits like better employment, promotion, increment in salary, etc. 2. To get a research degree and then to get a teaching position in a college or university or become a scientist in a research institution
- 9. CONT…. 3. To get a research position in countries like U.S.A., Canada, Germany, England, Japan, Australia, etc. and settle there 4. To solve the unsolved and challenging problems 5. To get joy of doing some creative work 6. To acquire respectability 7. To get recognition 8. Curiosity to find out the unknown facts of an event 9. Curiosity to find new things 10.To serve the society by solving social problems