What is it about?
Research methodology involves selection, justification and sequential arranging of activities, procedures and tasks in a research project. Designing research involves planning a research project in several stages from clarifying the world-views (philosophy) of the researcher to selection of methods employed in gathering, analysing and interpreting data.
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Why is it important?
Positivists believe that research should be objective and value-free. Interpretivists seek understanding of the world in multiple realities while critical theorists aim to criticize social reality by empowering and liberating people, and proposing solutions to social problems.
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Research methodology can no longer be confined to a set of universally applicable rules, conventions and traditions. The 7Ps shows applicability of any type of research methodology to a variety of contexts across several dimensions.
Professor Candauda Arachchige Saliya
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
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This page is a summary of: The Seven Phases (7Ps) of Social Research Design, SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2994417.
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