Designing a Research Methodology for Solving a Social Problem: Explanations from May Brodbeck's Article Models, Meaning and Theories

Social research is incomplete without a philosophical worldview that guides a researcher in the research process for a study.From theory, literature, hypotheses, and research questions, to validating a research study, the element of measurement in scientific research plays an important role.While theory helps researchers formulate their sets of interrelated verbal abstractions for the construct of variables, measuring these variables helps authenticate their validity and reliability for study.More so, hypothetical statements made between the parameters of variables using applied statistical tools also help clarify the predictions of the relationship between these variables to verify the literature, hypotheses, and research questions thus validating the study.The models applied, therefore, are imitations that help researchers limit or narrow down how theories can be developed to provide new variables for future studies.So models especially in social research rely on isomorphism, arithmetic, mathematical, and physics models to solve social problems by emphasizing the mathematical model to provide scientific knowledge about an event, situation, or behavior in a society.This is mostly achieved by changing the content of the study to letters, and further converting letters to figures or numerical values as codes that will provide figures that can be calculated to provide the measure of central tendency and measure of dispersion and other statistical tools that will help arrive at a fundamental truth in the investigation of these events, situations, and behaviors under study in the society.