Applied Research   Applied research is use to solve the specific policy problems. Theory is less central for applied research than seeking a solution of specific problem. Applied research is normally a descriptive research and its immediate practical use is major strength of it.   When decision must be made about a particular real life problem then applied research is the best to conduct. It covers... 

Basic Research Basic research is to move forward the fundamental knowledge about human world. It mainly focuses on theories about explanation of world operations to reject or support them i.e. why social relations are a certain way, what make things happen and why society changes. Basic research is the source to deliver the most new scientific ideas and ways of thinking about the world. Most commonly... 

Explanatory Research   To come up with the issue that is already known to us or we also have the description of it, we may be begin from the why question i.e. why the things the way they are. The explanation of the desire to know “why” is the major purpose of basic research. It is to identify the reason of something happen and builds on exploratory & descriptive research. When researcher... 

Descriptive Research   To present the specific details of a scenario, social setting or relationship is descriptive research. Descriptive Research, as the term implies, it is to describe the characteristics of a phenomenon. The answers of who, what, when, where and how can be determined by descriptive research. For example Population Census, Labor Force Surveys and Education Census are to be covered... 

Exploratory Research   When a researcher wants to deal with a new issue or try to begin a new research is called exploratory research. The objective of such research is to formulate very precise questions that can answer in future research. It might be the first stage of the series of studies.   Initially a research is conducted to explain the nature of the problem. The researchers having limited... 

Classification of Research Whenever a researcher begins to conduct a study or research, type of research must be decided. Researcher should well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the each type and choose the suitable for his or her study. Four dimensions we should look for classification of research: Purpose of Research Uses of research How the time will be treated (time dimension) Research... 

What is Research? Generally the image of research comes into our mind that it is something happening in the laboratory where some scientists are supposed to do some experiments. But if somebody trying to find out the opinion about packaging of milk through an interview is also doing research. The process of finding solutions to any problem after some analysis and study of situation is called research....