TY - BOOK AU - Poduval P.R. TI - Empirical research in social sciences: A guide book for research scholars SN - 978-1-64587-731-8 U1 - 300.72 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Chennai. PB - Notion press N1 - 1. Dedication 2. Acknowledgement 3. Forward 4. Contents. 5. Chapter I: introductory 6. Chapter II: Problems experience by research scholars 7. Chapter III: Nature, scope, and types of research 8. Chapter IV: The search Part (scholarship)of research 9. Chapter V: Identifying the topic and specifying it by the title of the thesis 10. Chapter VI: Scope of the study: variables and the research design 11. Chapter VII: qualification and measurement of variables 12. Chapter VIII: The logic of (1) deriving conclusions, 2. Arriving at generalizations and 3. establishing the cause - effect relations 13. Chapter IX: Fallacies in reasoning 14. Chapter X: Statistics for research in social sciences 15. Chapter XI: Summary: Steps in an explanatory type empirical research in social sciences ER -