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Why Sociological Research

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Sociological research replaces impression with evidence, using procedures designed so that another researcher could repeat the work and check the result.

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Everyone has a theory about why people leave a job; a study asks the leavers, counts the answers, and reports what it finds.

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Research constrains the conclusion — the researcher does not get to pick it afterward.