
A social scientific method is an investigative method that is used in all social sciences, enabling us to gain knowledge about human behaviors.
A social-scientific method consists of the following steps:
- Observing the world around us, and choosing the questions and problems we want to answer and overcome;
- Identifying variables that we think are important for answering questions;
- Making hypotheses about how variables are related to each other;
- Make assumptions;
- Testing hypotheses to see whether the predictions are consistent with what is actually happening in the real world; and
- Comparing hypothesis predictions with real-world results.