Research Methodology In Social Sciences

This book is an attempt to provide an elementary foundation in research methodology for those who have just began their research in economics and other branches of social sciences in developing the most appropriate methodology for their research studies. This book can be used both by beginners and specialists. This book is not meant to be an all inclusive and comprehensive work on research methodology. It does not include methods and techniques used in the analysis of data. The speciality of the book is that papers included in this book have been written by experienced researchers.

Preface and acknowledgements.

Contributors. Introduction/K.K. Bagchi.

1. Social research the perspectives for theory building/Afzal Hossain Mohammad Yasin and P.K. Sengupta.

2. Pure theory in economics deductive and inductive methods/Manas Dasgupta.

3. Cause and effect relationship in economics/Manas Dasgupta.

4. A note on the role of a Priori information in empirical research in social sciences/H.K. Chakrabarti.

5. Inter disciplinary approach in social science research some methodological issues reviewed/Tapas K. Roy Choudhury.

6. Knowledge sources and research process/Jagadish Chandra Debnath.

7. Economic development lessons from history/Jagadish Chandra Debnath.

8. Money and output level Keynesian and Monetarists methodologies/Chandan Kumar Mukhopadhyay.

9. Measurement of economic efficiency the frontier production function approach/Maniklal Adhikary.

10. Towards an operational definition of sustainable development/Milindo Chakrabarti.

11. Path analysis a tool of causal mechanism in multivariate analysis/Sushil Kumar Haldar.

12. Economic valuation of non market environmental goods an introduction/Tamas Ranjan Majumdar.

13. Doing research in government budget/Jayanta Kumar Goswami.

14. Ratio analysis as a method of assessing the financial performance of banks/Abdul Hadi.

15. Methodological issues in the study of regional disparities in development/Satyen Sarkar and Kanak Kanti Bagchi.

16. A practical guide to data collection some issues/S.K. Pathak.

17. Methodological issues in field surveys/S.K. Bhaumik.

18. The fieldworker and the field some methodological questions/Sanjay K. Roy.

19. Economic efficiency of farms in the districts of North Bengal the frontier production function approach/Maniklal Adhikary.

20. The Himul Dairy and its impact on the mobilisation of basic resources a case study/P.K. Datta.

21. Human development condition in Nepal Bhutan and Sikkim an evaluation/Subrata Debnath.

22. Format for theses and dissertation/Ramesh Prasad Adhikari.

Index.