Synopsis Research methodology, as introduced in this book, is a means to understand the ways in which social science research produces multiple accounts of the world. Methodologies specifies how the researcher may go about practically studying whatever he or she believes can be known. He book shows students how to access the contexts within which different research methods may be used how they should be implemented. It covers both quantitative and qualitative research and examines the significance of this very distinction. The book relates issues of research method to wider issues within the social science fields.