Social Research Methodology and Supplementary Documentation John Kallas University of the Aegean, Department of Socio

1. Social Research Methodology and Supplementary Documentation John KallasUniversity of the Aegean, Department of Sociology

2. Documentation Open access depends on documentation Documentation is realized by two different documentation procedures the procedure of document production the procedure of document integration in a documentation system. Document production is the work of data producers Social research products are different types of documents (Text documents, metadata documents, data documents etc) In every research a number of documents is produced Document integration is the work of data providers To understand documentation as a document integration procedure an infrastructure is needed

3. The General Research Procedure The survey The transformation of an individual�s abstract internal mental representation of social phenomena into formalized information; The choice of descriptive variables used to characterize each of the individuals of the population examined; The choice of individuals who constitute the population examined The coding or recoding of the initial data characterizing each individual by the descriptive variables The analysis The methods of analysis employed to treat and to transform the data in order to furnish formal and often statistical results; The final transformation by the researcher of formal mathematical results into the final results that are presented in a public discourse or in a scientific text

4. The one phase methodological paradigm The survey and the analysis are elements of the same research procedure The survey and the analysis share a common design The survey and the analysis are realized by the same research team

5. Research product life cycle under the one phase methodological paradigm