TYPES OF RESEARCH

Uses statistical data as the main source of knowledge.

Relies not on numerical basis but on narratives and stories coming from its research participants.

It aims to investigate the past and would like to establish how the past affected the present and its implications on the future.

This is a kind of study used in the discipline of sociology and anthropology and aims to construct cultural maps.

It aims to come up with the very essence of human experience.

This study has a very specific focus- it has specific time frame, specific group, specific place, and a specific problem.

This kind of research is done to immediately improve a problematic situation.