yes social scientist are working on new topic and phenomena in the world due which new idea exploring in the world. For example after new technology media researchers doing new research as well as the other field researcher of social science also.

You mention replication! in my view it is not replication but only making base line for the new research.

yes social scientist are working on new topic and phenomena in the world due which new idea exploring in the world. For example after new technology media researchers doing new research as well as the other field researcher of social science also.

You mention replication! in my view it is not replication but only making base line for the new research.

Thanks for the question and for the discussion so far - I believe there is still a lot to be discovered - my research was the first of its kind to identify the components of ethical mindsets ... so, it was new...

The more you learn the less you feel you know!?

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Theodora Issa

Although the main framework is the repetition of the already tested ideas but when we check the same area in different settings then it may create different results like researches done in developed countries will produce different results in underdeveloped countries if repeated

Thanks Attia for the contribution - I might agree with your contribution - which might be the case for some - but, actually, for my research, it was a hard work - creating too many things from scratch.... !

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Theodora Issa

I agree with you completely.

Although innovation is great yet honestly not all of us have the ability to follow the "path less traveled by" so we stick to replication.

Well Qurratulann,

Replication - aha --- that is the majority of new research - the context what matters here...

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Theodora Issa

I will attempt to answer this question from a social science perspective, since I am not sufficiently knowledgeable about other disciplines. However, theory development is liable to a relatively slow process. Good theoretical papers that make novel contributions in a revolutionary manner are very rare, I can at least speak for the management and strategy literature. However, we often witness the migration of notions form the hard sciences to the social sciences. For example, "complexity" permeated the field of management and strategy in the nineties, and more recently wa have been witnessing the use of advanced mathematical modelling techniques in economics.

It is true that industrial mutations coupled with significant societal changes have enabled the construction of different social realities which, I believe, brought about new social and organisational phenomena, the investigation of which requires a new set of tools and theories as guiding lenses. This is because the assumptions underpinning past theories no longer hold, thus capturing the empirical complexity of contemporary social realities and organisations remains a challenge.Unfortunately, such theories and tools remain parsimonious in both supply and explanation!

Perhaps it makes more sense to talk about paradigm shift. A whole new window with a whole new view? Thomas Kuhn adressed this issue in his famous book: "The Structure of the Scientific Revolution"

Interpretivist are working for new things, and positivists are working on replication

To be very honest, not only social scientists but most of the scientists (large percentage of all) are only doing quantitative research and not the qualitative research, due to which you see too many replica of a single research topic.

Main reason behind it is the race to have maximum publications in your bag. This is one of the most disgusting trends that I see today in major part of the world, due to which not much time and effort is given to output a new and genuine idea as it takes time and no one is willing to invest proper time for an honest research.

But not all are into such activities and there are people who believe in the art of proper research and are willing to invest time for genuine research work and new ideas, people who are not into quantitative but qualitative research. And, this number is also not less.

However going through some rich research texts with genuine research work behind will help you. There is plenty of text worth reading and you should find them.

Whatever I have written are my own thoughts and may be wrong in many cases, however I feel it answers your question well.

Thank you.