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Four wives and a husband •         What? •          Why? •          Where? •          When ? •          How?   In our example.. •          Online banking is a system that allows individuals to perform banking activities anywhere, anytime, via the internet •          Using this system, customers can make their transections rapidly without having to travel to the banks and the banks can save a lot of resources •          ABM bank have invested a lot of money in making this system available to its customers •          However its usage is not encouraging •        ...

Social research is all around us. Educators, government officials, business managers, human service providers, and health care professionals make frequent use of social research findings. Many people use social research to raise children, reduce crime, improve health, sell products, or just understand life. Daily broadcast news programs, magazines, newspapers, and websites disseminate research results. Research findings can affect our lives and public policies. For example, a study that looked at the "summer slide" or decline in children's reading and spelling skills over the summer. The decline is greatest among low-income students who lose about two months of school learning each summer. At a time when many schools are cutting summer programs to save money, the study found that simply giving low-income children access to books at spring fairs and letting them pick books that most interested them reduced the summer reading gap. Low-income children given twelve books ...

Abstract A term with two meanings in literature reviews: a short summary of a scholarly journal article that usually appears at its beginning, and a reference tool for locating scholarly journal articles. Acceptable incompetent When a field researcher pretends to be less skilled or knowledgeable in order to learn more about a field site. (11) Accretion measures Nonreactive measures of the residue of the activity of people or what they leave behind. (9) Action research A type of applied social research in which a researcher treats knowledge as a form of power and abolishes the division between creating knowledge and using knowledge to engage in political action. (1) Alternative hypothesis A hypothesis paired with a null hypothesis stating that the independent variable has an effect on a dependent variable. (4) Analytic domain In domain analysis, a type of domain a researcher develops using categories or terms he or she developed to understand a social setting. (13) An...