Mami Mokgosi

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Select a theory against which you will be analysing and assessing the
development of policy content specifically aimed at the elderly as vulnerable group in South Africa

 What is Methodology?

Methodology is the discussion of methods. This includes the theoretical ideas and research paper needs to achieve three things, though not necessarily in this order. Firstly, it should consider what the nature of academic work is more generally, and what this might mean for anyone who explores the topic at hand. Secondly, it needs to provide a literature review, discussing what methods researchers have traditionally used to study the kind of topic that the project focuses on. Thirdly, it should explain what methods this particular project uses and why. Methodological discussions are both theoretical and practical in nature. Methodology is also known as series of choices for example, choices about what information and data to gather, choices about how to analyse the information and data that you gather and other methodological choices (Schneider, 2014).

The nature of your question determines the method of analysis.

- Descriptive questions call for descriptive methods.

- Correlational questions call for you to make correlations.

- Theoretical evaluation calls for the evaluation of the entire theory.

- Cost-Benefit analysis of policies calls for you to find a method to conduct a cost/benefit analysis

Erdward, C. 2016. What’s methodology got to do with it? Public policy evaluations, observational analysis and RCT.