Social Scientific Method

By Ahmad Nasrudin · Updated on April 12, 2022

Social Scientific Method

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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.

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