1. Social Research : Meaning, Scope and Significance 2. Steps of Scientific Research 3. Research Design 4. Hypothesis : Concept, Types and Sources 5. Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Science 6. Types of Research : Basic, Applied, Historical and Empirical 7. Types of Social Research : Exploratory Descriptive and Diagnostics 8. Primary and Secondary Data 9. Observation 10. Case Study 11. Content Analysis 12. Techniques of Data Collection 13. Sampling Techniques 14. Questionnaire 15. Schedule 16. Interiview 17. Classification of Data, Tabulation and Presentation 18. Graphical Presentation of Data 19. Report Writing 20. Measurent of Central Tendency : Mean, Median and Mode .