Writing a scientific paper is a multi-stage and time-consuming process that requires certain knowledge and skills from the researcher. A scientist must accurately understand the goal: why does he study this or that area of scientific knowledge, what does he want to achieve as a result, what to prove or reveal?
Theme, purpose, relevance, practical significance, novelty of the results, subject and object of research are the most important structural components that are designed to concretize the essence of the problem under study, and in the future to help the manager and reviewers quickly form an opinion about the project.
Scientific work is a form of the process of cognition, a purposeful study of its aspects using various methods, which ends with the formulation of new knowledge about the object of study.
In the term paper, it is necessary at the initial stage to decide what will serve as the object and subject of subsequent study. This will help to avoid unnecessary actions in the process of searching for the necessary reference literature, reduce time and material costs at the preparatory stage.
Very important to distinguishconcepts "object" and "object". Young scientists often face difficulties when formulating the object of sociological research of a diploma or master's project. To avoid mistakes, you first need to know what these concepts mean.
Definition 1
The object of study is the processes or phenomena generated by the problem situation that are selected for study.
Item - contained within an object. In the scientific process, they interact with each other (both general and particular).
Definition 2
The object of study is that part of the existing reality, which at a particular stage becomes the subject of theoretical or practical analysis.
Object and subject must be consistent with the theme. Therefore, the more accurate the theme sounds, the easier it is to identify them.
Definition 3
The object of study is what or on what the researcher intends to study the problem.
For example, in journalism it can be specific media (newspaper, radio, TV channel). In philology, works in which the author plans to consider the indicated problem.
In the subject, the researcher displays the properties, features or characteristic features of the object to be studied.
It is possible to facilitate the process of formulating an object by differentiating its features:
- spatial (city, country, region);
- temporary (period and timing);
- sectoral (type of studyactivities).
Thus, the object appears as part of a single whole and at the same time a certain autonomous beginning.
So, summing up what has been said about the formulation of the object of scientific research, we note:
- object and subject should always be closely related to the theme of the work;
- an object is a reflection of a problematic or controversial situation in a society, process, sphere;
- the object of study is always a broader concept than the subject;
- having recognized the object and subject of scientific work, an outsider must accurately and without misunderstanding as accurately as possible understand what is at stake.
The correct definition of such integral structural components as the subject and object of research is the key to a successful result of your scientific activity.
