A Review of Methodological Crisis and Challenges of Research in Industrial Sociology and Related Social Sciences

Abstract

This study presented research as the way of arriving at dependable knowledge to grow the subfield of Industrial Sociology in the Sociology family. It highlighted scientific methods and its steps, as well as research designs useful and common in Industrial Sociology and Social Science as a whole, such as: action, longitudinal, casual, experimental, historical, case study archieval, observational, cohort, meta-analysis, etc. Major issues of methodological crisis were discussed in terms of variability of Human Nature, choice of design and methods, ability to conceptualize, quantify and avoid biases. It was concluded that without handling the crisis properly, it is difficult for growth and development to persist in the subfield and Social Sciences. It was recommended that the curriculum of industrial sociology and social sciences be enlarged with social research methods having prominent place.

Keywords: methodological crisis, challenges of research, Industrial Sociology, Social Sciences.