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Department of British studiesfaculty of the world studies

university of Tehran

Dr. Vaez-zaadeh

Elham Abedini

+Research communities in the social sciences

Key features of research in the social sciences

Principles of research in six social science disciplines:

1 . p s y c h o l o g y

2 . s o c i l o g y

3 . e d u c a t i o n

4 . h e a l t h

5 . s o c i a l p o l i c y

6 . m a n a g m e n t a n d b u s i n e s s

+Bridget Somekh

Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

+Key features of research in the social sciences

Greek philosopher – Plato and Aristotle:

Developed ways of conceptualizing and categorizing knowledge, truth and human experience during the 4th century BC.

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH:

1. People

2. Their life contexts

3. Philosoohical questions:

Nature of knowledge and truth

Values

being

+ Emergence:::

Political demand:

state needed to classify and analysis od individuals and populations.

E.g. anthropology emerged in the service of COLONIALISM

Recent years:

Not just for national demands and goals but also global ones (globalization)

E.g. culture and social relations, power configurations, movement across the globe, recognition of global interrelation and etc.

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More difficult than many researches as medical research

they find problem and drugs but social science is more complex because of human behavior.

Many different solution and not

Ethical issues and focus on people are really important in social science research

High quality social science research:

Establish relationship of trust with the participants as the necessary condition

Human being never reveal all that is in their mind ( more difficult because of researcher reception)

+Erica Burman

Research Institute of Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

+Principles of research in six social science disciplines: Psychology

Origin: modern psychology ------political demand

Need to distinguish educational levels to assessing the mental and physical abilities of soldiers for imperial wars.

Now : many divisions:

Developmental

Social cognitive

Educational

Clinical

community

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Psychological research Based on :

Observation

Experimentation

Interpretation

o Use small sample as a case study and generalize

+Psychoanalytical turn

In recent years, witnessed psychological turn including:

o Emphasize on clinical methods designed to unearth fundamental assumptions in identity formations, underlining the importance of reflexivity.

Psychological research is a way of studying ideology in action as Feminist researcher...