What do you mean by social research?

According to Pauline V.Young, “... social research is a systematic method of exploring, analyzing and conceptualizing social life in order to “extend, correct, or verify knowledge, whether that knowledge aids in the construction of a theory or in the practice of an art.

(i) Stating it still differently, social research seeks to find explanations to unexplained social phenomena to clarify the doubtful and correct the misconceived fact of social life

(iii) According to Wallace and Wallace, “Sociological research refers to the structural observation of social behaviour".