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Society has been organizing conferences and seminars regularly since
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Convener,
Conference Board –
Dr. Sukant K. Chaudhury |
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
"METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH: EMERGING TRENDS AND CHALLENGES"
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The biennial conference of the Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society will be held at the University of Lucknow, Lucknow on 23 & 24 March, 2013 on the above theme.
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Aim of the Seminar
The essence of social sciences lies in their capacity to understand and solve human problems as well as provide some predictions. This requires a distinctive methodology for their research. Broadly social research is a methodical and systematic study of a subject with the aim to generate new information, verify the existing knowledge in that subject and reach a new understanding. There are two types of research: qualitative and quantitative researches. Quantitative and qualitative researches are not opposed. There has been an almost inexhaustible debate about the scientific status of quantitative research in opposition to the so-called 'soft' (non-scientific and subjective) qualitative research. Today, it is well known that we use quantitative techniques if our subject matter and the materials we have collected demand that treatment. We switch on to qualitative research if we intend to describe the reality as our respondents experience it and when we are dealing with 'immeasurable' aspects of social and cultural life. In fact, quantitative and qualitative aspects of phenomena can be integrated in research.
Today the whole world is undergoing transformation in social, cultural, political, economic and administrative aspects. Traditional standardized research methods and techniques may not be suitable to understand the problems of society and people today. New methods and techniques are regularly emerging and new problems are also posing challenges to the researchers in social sciences in general and anthropology and sociology in particular. The questions arise here are: canfield work method provides a value free framework? Does quantification give the analysis of causal relationship? How to integrate both quantitative and qualitative aspects? What are the emerging trends in social science research? All these questions require an intellectual deliberation.
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Themes of the seminar
The seminar will have the following themes:
(1.1) Philosophical Issues in Social Science Research
(1.2) Methodology, method and techniques
(1.3) Quantitative research & Qualitative research
(1.4) Field Work and Survey
(1.5) Emerging trends in research
(1.6) Current challenges in research
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