Uniqueness and Difficulties in Social Research Compared to Natural Science Research

Difficulties in social research: social researchers study people in social reality, human social behavior, and social phenomena related to people, therefore: a) the uniqueness of people: as the object of social research, people, human behavior, and their composition of social phenomena and social products are subjective consciousness, subjective will, and may not necessarily cooperate with the researcher, and therefore can not achieve the same high degree of accuracy as in the natural sciences. The degree of correctness of the natural sciences. b) Interference of research: the study of people's social behavior, this behavior itself may change the behavior it studies; the researcher (human) will interfere with the object of study (human), and the experience gained is obtained after being interfered with. c) Complexity of social phenomena: the complexity of the object of study makes the study involve more relevant factors, and the social researcher is faced with more and more complex variables, and it is more difficult to distinguish the causes and results of the phenomena; human beings both have the ability to understand the cause and effect of the phenomena, and they are more likely to be involved in the study of social phenomena and their consequences. cause and effect of the phenomenon; human being is both a biological and a social individual at the same time. Therefore people's behavior is not only influenced and constrained by physiological and psychological factors, but also by the social environment in which they live (including social systems, cultural traditions, family backgrounds, etc.), the social relations he has, and the social interactions he develops. d) Research is subject to specific constraints: in addition to being subjected to the same kinds of natural conditions as those of the natural sciences, social research is sometimes also constrained by ethical and political factors. (e) Difficulty in maintaining objectivity: The researcher is himself part of the subject of his research and it is difficult to maintain an objective and transcendent attitude. The researcher is also a human being, and emotions can arise between him and the researched, unknowingly affecting his reaction to the data and interpretation of the results.