Concept information
social science subjects
politics and international relations
political science
epistemological foundations of political science
...
communication and media studies
communication studies
political communications
political communication theory
Preferred term
methodology
Definition
- Methodology connotes a set of rules and procedures to guide research and against which its claims can be evaluated. It is therefore fundamental to the construction of all forms of knowledge. [Source: The A-Z of Social Research; Methodology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- action research
- ambivalent sexism
- analysis (methodology)
- Attitudes Toward Women Scale
- authoritarian personality
- cognitive mapping
- COMPSTAT
- computer simulations
- cost-benefit analysis and crime prevention
- crime mapping
- crime science
- diffusion of benefits
- displacement
- experimentation
- hot spots of fear
- implicit association test
- interaction process analysis
- justification
- levels of analysis
- meta-analysis
- methodological issues in counting victims
- methodological issues in evaluating effectiveness of crime prevention
- modern racism
- modern sexism
- need for closure
- need for power
- prospective crime mapping
- research methods and issues
- right wing authoritarianism
- role of the researcher
- SARA problem-solving process
- social relations model
- sociometric choice
- survey methods
- symlog
- theorisation
- victimization surveys
- virtual repeats and near repeats
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/methodology
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