RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

PHILOSOPHY OF RESEARCH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does the term ‘ontology’ mean?
A
Nature of social entities.
B
The study of cancer .
C
The study of the onto tribe.
D
The research into ontogeny.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Social ontology is the study of the nature and properties of the social world. It is concerned with analyzing the various entities in the world that arise from social interaction. A prominent topic in social ontology is the analysis of social groups.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ontology is about the object of inquiry, what you set to examine. Ontology concerns claims about the nature of being and existence. One of the longest standing ontological questions in philosophy concerns the existence, or otherwise, of God or at least some sense of a higher being.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main components of an ontology are concepts, relations, instances and axioms. A concept represents a set or class of entities or ‘things’ within a domain.

Detailed explanation-4: -ontology, the philosophical study of being in general, or of what applies neutrally to everything that is real.

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