Sociological Research (3)

People commonly try to understand the happenings in their world by finding or creating an explanation for an occurrence.
Social scientists may develop a hypothesis for the same reason. A hypothesis is a testable educated guess about predicted
outcomes between two or more variables; it’s a possible explanation for specific happenings in the social world and allows
for testing to determine whether the explanation holds true in many instances, as well as among various groups or in
different places. Sociologists use empirical data and the scientific method, or an interpretative framework, to increase
understanding of societies and social interactions, but research begins with the search for an answer to a question.