Types of Descriptive Research

The main types of Descriptive Research are-
1. Case Studies:
• Case study is a detailed study about one person or unit over a considerable period of time.
• It Involves researcher to inquire deeper and examine thoroughly
• Involves taking note on how these behaviors change as the individual adapts and reacts to his environment.
• Discover and identify all the important variables which have contributed to the history or development of the subject through case studies.

Limitations Of Descriptive Research

• It is not applicable to problems which cannot satisfy the required criteria mentioned earlier.

• The researcher may make description an end itself. Research must lead to discovery of facts.

• Although social science problems are continuous and have a past and a future, the researcher may loose him in current conditions only.