Explanatory research - Research Methodology - Manu Melwin Joy
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- 3. Explanatory Research • Explanatory Research is the research whose primary purpose is to explain why events occur to build, elaborate, extend or test theory.
- 4. Explanatory Research • Explanatory research allows the research to test very specific theories and make amends to previous theories.
- 5. Explanatory Research • Exploratory research: A researcher conducting exploratory research would generate ideas of what campus crime is identified as based on interviewing victims of campus crime and evaluating what circumstances fall under the criteria of crime at Georgetown.
- 6. Explanatory Research • Descriptive Research: A researcher conducting descriptive research would look to the campus crime databases in order to understand the statistics behind the crimes being committed (when, where and how they were committed).They would then define the most common profile of campus crime.
- 7. Explanatory Research • Explanatory Research: A researcher conducting explanatory research would test out a theory about Georgetown campus crime. For instance, the theory that could be tested is: if we prevent guests from entering the library, do student backpacks and laptops get stolen at the same rates as when guests were allowed to enter the library.
- 8. Explanatory Research • A referendum to limit migration from European Union countries took place on 10th February of 2014 in Switzerland. In the score of such event, Alexandre Afonso (2014) and Paul Haydon (2014) did a simple analysis of correlation between the share of migrants population per canton and the share of yes to anti- immigration initiative, based on the results of the referendum.
- 9. Explanatory Research • The research question that lies beneath these analysis might be “is there a relationship between the share of migrant population in a given community and the way migration is seen by its members.
- 10. Explanatory Research • Interestingly both the graphic and map bellow show that wherever there is less number of immigrants, the rejection of immigrants is greater. It is a clear example of explanatory research, where the main objective is identifying the existence between two or more variables.