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Introduction
Whenever you do research-qualitative,
quantitative or mixed methods your goal
is to help people, groups or organizations
understand better phenomena, human
behavior, human interactions and other
events in daily life. With this in mind, the
researcher's formulation of research
questions is of primary importance.

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Introduction
As a researcher, you make crucial
decisions particularly in the choice of
methods of data collection, and in data
analysis procedure. The research
questions you formulate gives focus to
the research, as well as guide to
appropriacy of the decision you make.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Research problems address
issues about social organizations,
social process and social behavior.
It is good to emphasize at this
point that social research
problems are not the same thing
as "topics" or "areas of interests".
TYPES OF
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
PROBLEM TOPIC
QUESTION QUESTIONS
General and explanatory and have
Specific and
crucial influence on the form and
content of topic questions. descriptive
 1. How are person's self-identity, feelings, ideas
and attitudes related to his/her social
environment?

2. How do people influence each other's

behaviour in social interaction either face to face
Six Key or "meditated" through texts, emails, mobiles, and
so on?

Problem 3. How do social settings (such as schools,

universities, families, factories, companies,
Questions hospitals, and so on) influence the behavior of
those operating within them?
4. How is social behavior influenced by: (a) social class,
ethnicity, gender, age, neighborhood, region, or politics; (b)
cultural values, expectations and institutions (including
media)?

5. How does power influence human behavior and social

activity?

6. How does the passage of time influence social behaviour?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND
RESEARCH DESIGN
Problem questions are general in nature, topic questions involve
specific issues about the topic or the area of research interest.
As you begin to decide on your focus, and the problem-questions most
relevant to your concerns, you can then refine your topic-questions. As
they become more refined and focused, certain tentative answers or
explanations may suggest themselves,
Because the design of a research project hinges on the development
and honing of research questions (both problem and topic varieties) a
good amount of time and effort should give over to deciding what the
are before doing any actual research.
Developing a research design at the very start provides a framework
or template in advance of the research itself, so that it has some
planned structure to it.
This will help minimize any uncertainties you might have about how
to proceed or in dealing with unforeseen or disruptive problems.