Friday, July 18, 2008

Research, anyone?

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else - Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

I'm wondering how to train my heart and soul to be more sincere and honest in doing my research. Academic wise, the research in political sciences require the researcher to be apolitical and the main purpose is for the betterment of the society. However, with the current scenario of political development, the recommendations made by the political scientists seem to be too ideal and utopia. You can't do it just to fulfill the requirement of the university or to make you cv looks good but you have to pay it forward to the society. Any research which ends in the library is wasting the taxpayers money. Beware, mind your research.

3 comments:

Damantim said...

Research at the begining can be considered as a documented findings ( after analysis etc ) and recomandations. Most of this part is done by experts in the concerning areas.


There are two researchs implication: short and long term. Short term means you can produce a new perspective in difference dimension. Long term means you need to follow researching until you find a new theory etc..

Sincerity and honesty are values that needed by all researchers. These values should be trained at the early stage when you decide to be a reseacher. Like others, you must sharpen and decorate these values regularly.

Sincerity and honesty are abstract subsitants. Do judge yourself every time. And keep to work. Do not only say i`m scared to do research for the sake of Sincerity and honesty. then you never start any thing...

Pishaposh said...

Mede,

Since when the political research become so real rather than mere rhetoric?

Political scientist - is just the other name for hopeless historian ... we not suggesting anything ... we are story-teller ...

and story teller .... tell story saja la ...

plus, who need political scientist when you can mock most people just like that?

people are social animal - political scientist? do we really need them?

keng said...

research....???? same old same old...