Types of sociological research

4. is simplest. It is used to practice techniques and procedures: establish the required volume and quality of the random sample, clarify the content and number of questions in the questionnaire, time of the survey.
6. can be carried out by economists, journalists, jurists, medical workers etc.
9. is a more complex type of sociological analysis. It is designed to find answers to Who? What? How? How many? Where? When? questions.
12. is a type of empirical sociological research in which one or several units typical for a certain class of phenomena serves an object.
13. is used to quantify problems, attitudes, opinions, and other defined variables by generating the numerical data or the data that can be transformed into useable statistics.
15. is designed to explore.It is carried out to solve limited tasks, so it embraces small samples of study phenomena and has a simple design.
16. is conducted by the researchers themselves.
17. is conducted several times to consider the study object in development – its changes, trends etc.
19. is oriented to realize scientific questions “what is studied?” and “how is it studied?”
20. is conducted to gain new knowledge, uncover regularities and unknown social tendencies.

1. is most spread-out study in applied sociology.
2. is conducted to develop the conceptual apparatus of science, and provide advanced understanding about the social world.
3. is rather complex as it is effort- and time consuming. It provides advanced understanding of the phenomena based on the results of a pilot or exploratory research.
5. is when a researcher manipulates the variables and participants to identify a cause-and-effect relationship.
7. is carried out when the information has already been collected by research organizations or marketers.
8. is designed to diagnose specific problems of the customer (society, social groups and communities) and work out practical recommendations to solve them.
10. is a research designed to learn the highlighted social issue and work out recommendations to solve it.
11. is used to understand people’s opinions, idiosyncratic responses to an event, motivations, or underlying reasons for actions or decisions, uncover trends in thought and opinions, and dive deeper into the problem.
14. is designed to study all the units of analysis.
18. is the most in-depth type of sociological analysis.