Essays on Research Methodology
The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical thinking, critical reasoning, rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their doctorates. Accordingly, eminent experts have come together to cons
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Essays on Research Methodology
Essays on Research Methodology
Dinesh S. Hegde Editor
Essays on Research Methodology
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Editor Dinesh S. Hegde National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai, India
ISBN 978-81-322-2213-2 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2214-9
ISBN 978-81-322-2214-9 (eBook)
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To Young inquisitive scholars looking forward to embarking on a research career —Editor
Foreword
Issues of research methodology, even though of fundamental significance in the evolution of any subject, rarely receive the attention they merit. This is particularly so in the social sciences, where very often fierce controversies are contested on the grounds of irreconcilable methodological premises. This book, edited by a well-known scholar and a much respected educationist of long standing, deserves to be welcomed for putting before the academic community of teachers and research students (in the social and management sciences) a wide spectrum of methodological issues of crucial import in the social sciences. It would not be an exaggeration to say that social science research methods have grown in the shadow of the natural science method. This is probably the legacy of the French philosopher August Comte’s Unity of Science Principle (USP) enunciated in his book Cours De Philosophie Positive (1842). Loosely stated, the USP considers all sciences (natural, social, historical) as methodologically similar, but with natural sciences at a higher stage of evolution than social sciences. Thus, social sciences should aspire to attain the same stage of evolution as the natural sciences and hence follow the same (or broadly similar) methods of enquiry. The USP was methodologically challenged by a group of Ger
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