Scientific Method Steps

The scientific method is a process used to evaluate and analyze a problem or data during an experiment or an observation. Researchers and scientists have used this for many years, conducting research, getting results, and learning new knowledge and information. In this essay I will identify the steps of the scientific method.

There are several steps in a scientific method, they include; defining the problem, research, the hypothesis, conducting an experiment, analysis of your results, and the last and final step, the conclusion. Methods used for sociology investigations are the experiment, survey, participant observations, and existing data. "Rather, just as a carpenter chooses a particular tool for a particular job, researchers select a method

Who, what, when, where, why and even how it happened, or the reason you started researching the problem. The second step is research. By researching you start by writing notes down to answer the question or the problem you want to know more about, either by looking through books, magazines, newspapers, and even the Internet. The hypothesis "is really an educated guess about how variables are linked, usually expressed as an if-then statement: if this particular thing were to happen, then that particular thing will result" (Macionis, 2016, Chapter 1.6). The experiment is collecting and researching data to obtain the correct information that follows under the hypothesis. The analysis is drawing a conclusion to your experiment to see if the information gathered supports your

Participant observations is a method and research that observes people during their everyday activities. This allows researchers to observe their interactions and social surroundings. In the textbook sociologist Joseph Ewoodzie did some research in the Midwest observing people interactions and lives of people from different societies. After his research in the area's in the Midwest, Ewoodzie explained that he "hopes that his research will result in programs that go beyond maintaining homeless people in their present state and toward expanding their opportunities to become self-supporting community members" (Macionic, 2016, Chapter