paper -205 "Difference between Methods and Methodology"

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Name :- Aditi Vala

Ma sem :- 01

Batch :- 2020-2022

Paper no.:- 205 [ Cultural Studies ]

Topic :- Difference between Methods and Methodology

Roll no. :- 01

Enrollment no. :- 3069206420200018

Email id :-  valaaditi203@gmail.com

Submitted to :-

Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English, MKBU

Introduction :

Methods are just behavior or tools used to select a research technique. Methodology is analysis of all the methods and procedures of the investigation. Methods are applied during the later stage of the research study. Methodologies are applied during the initial stage of the research process.

What is Methods and Methodology? 

Researchers implement systematic methods to conduct a research. They define the research topic to establish a deeper and clearer understanding in the methods section. Furthermore, methods consist of all techniques, strategies, and tools employed by a researcher to complete the experiment and find solution to the research problem. 

Objective of Methods and Methodology :

While the methods section is just a research tool or a component of research, methodology is the justification for using a particular research method. The objective of research methods is to provide thorough information of research design, participants, equipment, materials, variables, and procedures. It must allow other researchers to reproduce similar results based on the documented methods. Whereas, the objective of research methodology is to determine the accuracy and efficiency of the methods opted by the researchers for a particular experiment.

However, methodology is a systematic and theoretical approach to collect and evaluate data throughout the research process. It allows researchers to validate a study's rigor to acquire new information. The purpose of research methodology is to prove the credibility, validity, and reliability of a chosen research method.

Method 

While writing the methods section you must remember the following: 

• Authors must duly cite all sources that helped them in selecting the methods for the research study. Furthermore, it should also include parameters of past studies must to indicate relevance with the current study. 

• It is mandatory to cite the sources of all participants of the study. The details of participants such as geographical location, age, sex, their initial conditions, etc. must be mentioned in the methods section. 

• The methods section must also include the inclusion and exclusion criteria of subjects.Description of division of chosen group and their characteristics is also an element of the methods section. 

• The methods section must also include the study design. Necessary preparations, software used, and instruments must be explained here. Finally, it must include statistical analyses. For example: type of data, their measurements, and statistical tests.

Methodology

A well-written methodology section must include the following: 

• An introduction and explanation of reasons for the systematic methodological approach (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method) used throughout the research process.

 • The methodology section must indicate the applicability, validity, and credibility of all methods applied in the research. 

• It must clearly describe specific datacollation methods and provide detailed explanation of data analysis. 

• Lastly, the methodology section must justify rationale for chosen research methods and procedures.

The difference between “method” and “methodology” :

Method :-

A method is simply the tool used to answer your research questions — how, in short, you will go about collecting your data. Examples of UX research methods include:

• Contextual inquiry

• Interview

• Usability study

• Survey

• Diary study

• Card sort

If you are choosing among these, you might say “what method should I use?” and settle on one or more methods to answer your research question.

Methodology :-

A methodology is the rationale for the research approach, and the lens through which the analysis occurs. Said another way, a methodology describes the “general research strategy that outlines the way in which research is to be undertaken” (An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology, Howell 2013). The methodology should impact which method(s) for a research endeavor are selected in order to generate the compelling data.

Examples of methodologies, courtesy of Elin Bjorling, include:

• Phenomenology: describes the “lived experience” of a particular phenomenon

• Ethnography: explores the social world or culture, shared beliefs and behaviors

• Participatory: views the participants as active researchers

• Ethnomethodology: examines how people use dialogue and body language to construct a world view

• Grounding theory*: assumes a blank slate and uses an inductive approach to develop a new theory.

*Despite the fact that grounding theory has theory in its name, don’t let that fool you — it is actually a methodology because it aims to generate theory from systematic application of research.

If you wanted to know about the lived experiences purchasing food in the United States, for instance, you would be using the phenomenology methodology— and from there you could choose from different methods to collect that data. For instance, you might perform a contextual inquiry and shop alongside participants; you might also interview a handful of participants and ask them to recount their most recent grocery shopping experience; you might equally choose to do a survey and ask the same questions to hundreds of participants. Because the contextual inquiry gets the researcher much closer to the actual setting, the results may be considered stronger and more transferable in the future.

Examples of when to use “method” and “methodology”:

If you work in industry, it’s likely that you will mostly be talking about methods. Here are some ways you can use 

“methods” in context:

• I’m trying to decide between doing a contextual inquiry, or bringing in participants for interviews. Which method would you choose while balancing cost, research time, and usefulness of the data?

• We want to have hard data with a large number of participants to answer this question, so we should choose a quantitative method, such as a survey that collects data with Likert scales.

If you are working in academia and writing research papers, you want to consider including a description of your methodology. However, framing your approach in industry can have many benefits as well. Here are several examples for using

“methodology”:

• The phenomenological methodology was chosen for this study on the experience of people residing in low income housing in California because the holistic lived experience uncovered areas of opportunity for the state to implement for their next low income housing project.

• In order to create brand new party board game, we used the participatory methodological approach in our design research process. This allowed us to consider the social atmosphere and take input from our participants when developing game play and rules.

Conclusion :

A research methodology is concerned with the systematic approach to solving a research problem by applying appropriate research methods. A clear research methodology is important for the consistency and accuracy of the outcome produced by the research methods.

Research methods are a small part of the whole research methodology process. Research methods are used to find a solution to the research problem. Research methods are the primary course to conduct research, and research methodology is all about the utilization of research methods.

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