Both quantitative and qualitative methods (the way sociologists can gather data about a social issue or problem) are approaches
that ideally attempt to establish a __________ between social elements. a. causal relationship b. coincidental relationship c. commonsense relationship d. numeric relationship
In research, it is common to use either quantitative methods that measure a phenomenon through numbers and statistics or qualitative methods that describe a phenomenon through qualities and characteristics. Both of this methods are used by researchers to understand an event, issue, situation, tendency or problem(phenomenon) and explaining it, especially by identifying the elements that are related to the phenomenon and whether these are the cause of the main phenomena, whch is knonw as causeal relationship. Thus, these methods attempt to establish a Causal relatioship.
