Research Methodology

Methodology can be:

1. "the analysis of the principles of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline";^[1]
2. "the systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a discipline".^[1]
3. A documented process for management of projects that contains procedures, definitions and explanations of techniques used to collect, store, analyze and present information as part of a research process in a given discipline.
4. the study or description of methods ^[2]

Contents  [hide] 1 Methodology, method and theory 2 Methodology, paradigm and algorithm 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links

[edit]Methodology, method and theory

Generally speaking, methodology, unlike method (which systematically details a given procedure or process), does not describe specific methods despite the attention given to the nature and kinds of processes to be followed in a given procedure or in attaining an objective. When proper to a study of methodology, such processes constitute a constructive genericframework; thus they may be broken down in sub-processes, combined, or their sequence changed.^[3] As such, methodology may entail a description of generic process or, metaphorically, may be extended to explications of philosophically coherent concepts or theories as they relate to a particular discipline or field of inquiry. By similar reasoning methodology refers to the rationale and/or the philosophical assumptions that underlie a particular study or a particular methodology (for example, the scientific method). In scholarly literature a section on the methodology of the researchers is typically de rigueur.

[edit]Methodology, paradigm and algorithm

Research Methodology refers to a back philosophy of research. As an example of methodology in theoretical work, the development of paradigms^[4] satisfies most or all of the criteria for methodology. A paradigm, like an algorithm, is a ‘constructive’ framework, meaning that the so-called construction is a logical, rather than a physical, array of connected or intercalated elements.

[edit]See also

• Paradigm
• Algorithm

[edit]References

1. ^ ^a b Methodology, entry at Merriam–Webster
2. ^ Baskerville, R. (1991). "“Risk Analysis as a Source of Professional Knowledge”". Computers & Security 10 (8): 749–764.
3. ^ Katsicas, Sokratis K. (2009) "35" Computer and Information Security Handbook Morgan Kaufmann Pubblications Elsevier Inc p. 605 ISBN 978-0-12-374354-1
4. ^ See, for example, Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago, 1970, 2nd ed.)

[edit]Further reading

• Creswell, J. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
• Creswell, J. (2003). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
• Guba, E. and Lincoln, Y. (1989). Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.
• Herrman, C. S. (2009). “Fundamentals of Methodology”, a series of papers On the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), online.
• Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative research & evaluation methods (3rd edition). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
• Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, W. A. Neilson, T. A. Knott, P. W. Carhart (eds.), G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA, 1950.
• Joubish, Farooq Dr. (2009). Educational Research Department of Education, Federal Urdu University,Karachi,Pakistan.www.jahffer-syed.webs.com