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Synopsis This book of Research Methodology in Sociological Research is very much like historical research, but it goal is somewhat different. Historians tend to view each event as unique and to describe. Its circumstance from that view point. Social researchers regard each event as an instance of principles that many apply else where. The Goliards were defrocked monk and priests of medieval France and Germany who lived as beggars and itinerant students, and who celebrated drinking and wenching in scandalous parodies of sacred pottery; a historian might examine. The conditions that engendered their behavior in that time and peace, but a social researchers might use the same material to test a hypothesis about deviance that worked explain not only the Goliards, but other deserters from strict institutions who cheerfully mocked, rather than savagely attacked what they had abandoned. Some examples of social research using archival sources.