1. Research Methods for English and Literary Studies
Our project is mostly focused on sociology, which occurs in all of our three chapters. ... As already and clearly stated, we want our project to be about food waste in the UK. ... However, another dominant method in our project is the qualitative method. ... Therefore most of the empirical data consists of journals, books, articles, websites and graphs, all of which have been important in our quest to get a broad sense of knowledge about the food waste within the U.K. In our project we also decided to use the quantitative method when needed. ...
Secondary data are collected from the company record or archives, government publication, books research journals, web sites etc. ... Unobtrusive Measures When the data is obtained from the sources other than individuals, like wear and tear of journals/books in the library, the number of soft drink can in trash bags. ... Such data can be obtained from books, periodicals, media, government publications, company web site and many other record or published information. ...
Modern science is the practice of skepticism. Skepticism is defined as acritical attitude which systematically questions the notion that absolute knowledge and certainty are possible...in particular fields? (Skeptic's Dictionary), meaning that modern science is the understanding that current scientificknowledge? is never infallible and that methods and truths must constantly evolve. Someone who experiments and constantly questions norms is a modern scientist. ...