Tools and Techniques of Social Research

by C. Satapathy, S K Rout, Sasmita Panda

ISBN: 9789359195087
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2025
Price : Rs. 7495.00
Biblio : viii+206p.

Author Profile

Dr. C. Satapathy retired as Head and Dean of Extension Education from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology in the year 2002 and there after working as Director Amity Humanity Foundation under Amity University. He obtained Ph.D. degree from IARI in 1981. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research. He has guided more than 30 Ph.D. Students. Besides a number of research papers in National and International journals he has published 12 books. Prof. Santosh Kumar Rout, Additional Dean, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, SOADU, graduated in Agricultural Extension Education, OUAT in 1978. He did Ph.D. in Agricultural Extension Education, OUAT. In addition to present position he has worked in OUAT in the capacity of Dean Extension Education. He has been conferred with FAO Fellowship and Best Extension Scientist and published a good numbers of papers in National and International journal . Dr. Sasmita Panda graduated from Utkal University and obtained Ph.D. in Business Administration from Utkal University. She has rich experience in Preparation of concept paper, Formulation of Rural based research Projects, designing and implementation of livelihood Project on rural household. She has published 16 research papers in National and International journals along with Book chapter. She is involved in designing rural based research program and rural marketing. She has experience of eight years in conducting multidisciplinary research. At present she is working in Amity University as a Social Scientist.

About The Book

The book “Tools and Techniques of Social Research” is specifically written for the scholars of social science to conduct research. The book highlights key to understand what is social research, how is conducted with what techniques. The chapters like science and social research, hypothesis, techniques of measurement, research design, projective techniques, sampling, collection and processing of data, reliability, validity and attitude measurement would be of much helpful. Scientific report writing would be added advantage for scholars.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface v 1. Science and Social Research 1 2. Hypothesis, Variables, Cause and Effect Relationship 19 3. Measurement 35 4. Social Research Design 39 5. Statistical Research Design 55 6. Ex-Post Facto Research Design 67 7. Construction of Tools for Data Collection 75 8. Art of Interviewing for Data Collection 83 9. Projective Techniques for Data Collection 95 10. Sample and Sampling 103 11. Data Collection 111 12. Data Processing and Presentation 125 viii 13. Reliability and Validity of Scales 141 14. Case Study 151 15. Attitude Measurement 157 16. Scientific Report Writing 181 Definitions and Meaning of the Terms used in Social Research 189 References 199 Index 203