1. Social Research : Meaning, Scope and Significance 2. Hypothesis : Concept and Formulation 3. Scientific Study of Social Phenomena 4. Scientific Method : Logic in Social Science 5. Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Science 6. Positivism and Phenomenology 7. Methods of Social Research : Quantitative (Social Survey) 8. Observation 9. Case Study 10. Content Analysis 11. Types of Research : Basic Applied, Historical and Empirical 12. Types of Social Research : Exploratory, Descriptive or Explanatory, Diagnostic and Experimental 13. Techniques of Data Collection 14. Sampling Technique 15. Questionnaire 16. Schedule 17. Interview 18. Primary and Secondary Data 19. Classification of Data Tabulation and Presentation 20. Graphical Presentation of Data 21. Measurement of Central Tendency : Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation.