Research Design

The research neither have a specific time span nor have a specific technique of data collection due to the broad topic of research – Eradication of poverty. We do not want to use methods derived by other social scientists blindly for our cause, but want to derive each and everything from the scratch for our convenience in a more user friendly and lucid manner to negate any built in errors. The method used by us to 'understand the world' is the same as used by Marx himself, “Material dialectics”(Marx uses the term scientific dialectics), though I am also a postmodern sometimes by heart(Might sound stupid as well). We also might use historical method to collect data but are not confined only to that. {Note: The term method, methodology has variety of meanings in social science literature(though specific at times) and is used in varying connotations here. The term method itself is used in different meanings across the passage}.

The total research can be divided into 4 phases.

1^st phase – Understand different societies and their interconnections and the forces emerging out of it.

2nd phase – Understand poverty and their nature in different societies.

3^rd phase – Find the reason for Poverty and the reason for its permanence

4^th phase – Find the way to eradicate poverty.

The First phase of the research module is divided into different broad systematic steps and they should follow the same order for the true progress.

Step 1: Understanding the society as it is by the negating the bookish knowledge and other preconceived notions we have about societies and its processes.

Step 2: Check the wholistic assumptions made in social sciences (like demand – supply dynamics in economics), in all social set ups, including and excluding places where different kind of discrimination is practiced.

Step 3: Check for the important interacting forces in all social set ups and their variations, their linkages, their base etc with out any previous bookish knowledge.

The above three steps though not exclusive compartments will give us an idea of the society we are living in, about the neighboring societies, the contradictions in each societies, contradictions created in the interaction of these societies etc. This will broadly give us an idea about these societies and their resultant social forces. Only after getting and analysing the above results the exact research design to find the nature and causes of poverty and can be formulated. Let us start from the scratch now.... learn all that matters as a real student of social change!!!