How to do social science research well?

Characteristics of social science research.

1.Complexity Social objects (or socio-historical phenomena) studied in the social sciences are generally very complex, and they are conditioned by numerous natural and social variables, which are often related to each other and have non-linear relationships. The subjects of social science research generally have the ability to self-organize, self-create, and self-develop; The generation of social things is often triggered by accidental events or individual characters, which have strong randomness and ambiguity; Social science often deals more with issues such as "should" and "wish", and the judgment of these issues is strongly dependent on the observer's ideological motivation, and is constrained by many internal and external variables, showing strong randomness and ambiguity.

It is difficult for people to find out the inevitable factors behind these random factors, and it is difficult to find out the objective motives from the ideological motives, which brings great difficulties to the social sciences to carry out accurate and objective analysis, so they can only use a large number of qualitative analysis methods.

2.Dependence General social things are built on the basis of many natural things, or are related to many natural things, so any social science often involves many natural science fields, and to a large extent depends on the comprehensive development of natural science. If the natural sciences are not fully developed, it will be difficult for the social sciences to make major breakthroughs in accuracy and objectivity.

3.Subjectivity The understanding and evaluation of social things are subject to many subjective factors (especially emotional factors), and this mainly depends on the interest relationship between the observer and the object of observation (especially the economic interest relationship). This kind of "preconceived" subjective factor (especially national feelings and class feelings) caused by the relationship of interests induces people to form a non-neutral, non-objective, and irrational attitude of observation, and this makes it easy to form "social sciences" that represent the interests of different nationalities and classes, and they do not compromise with each other and do their own thing, thus seriously hindering the healthy development of social sciences.

4.Difficult to verify Social things generally have a long operating cycle, and are irreversible in time, the operation of some social things is prone to huge conflicts of interest, and will cause some unstoppable disasters, so it is difficult to carry out repeated experiments, and many social science hypotheses and predictions are difficult to verify in a short period and a small range.

The specific research methods of the social sciences are as follows:

1. Define value from the perspective of energy, define value from the perspective of physics, and realize the unified calculation of value.

2. Establish a broad and in-depth connection between social science and value theory. After the theory of value has become a natural science, it is necessary to extend the theory of value to all fields of social science, so that all social phenomena can find their value motives, and all social laws can be described by certain laws of value change.

3. Looking at the world from the perspective of value, deriving the generalized law of value from the law of maximum order, and applying it to other social science fields.