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    Research is defined as the study of fields, disciplines, and sciences. A field is a broad area of research, knowledge, and practice that encompasses multiple disciplines, such as business, education, and medicine. A discipline is a method of organizing academic knowledge, typically classified as physical, behavioral, or social sciences. Physical science examines the natural world, behavioral science studies organisms, and social science analyzes human social systems. While debate exists around what constitutes a science, researchers generally agree it is the topic, not the methodology, that distinguishes the physical, behavioral, and social sciences.

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    Research is defined as the study of fields, disciplines, and sciences. A field is a broad area of research, knowledge, and practice that encompasses multiple disciplines, such as business, education, and medicine. A discipline is a method of organizing academic knowledge, typically classified as physical, behavioral, or social sciences. Physical science examines the natural world, behavioral science studies organisms, and social science analyzes human social systems. While debate exists around what constitutes a science, researchers generally agree it is the topic, not the methodology, that distinguishes the physical, behavioral, and social sciences.

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    Research is defined as the study of fields, disciplines, and sciences. A field is a broad area of research, knowledge, and practice that encompasses multiple disciplines, such as business, education, and medicine. A discipline is a method of organizing academic knowledge, typically classified as physical, behavioral, or social sciences. Physical science examines the natural world, behavioral science studies organisms, and social science analyzes human social systems. While debate exists around what constitutes a science, researchers generally agree it is the topic, not the methodology, that distinguishes the physical, behavioral, and social sciences.

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    RESEARCH: DEFINITION, CHARACTERISTICS, FUNCTION and IMPORTANCE

    IN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES AND IN THE WORKPLACE


    There are three terms that need to be defined so they can be used correctly: field, discipline and
    science. Adopting the definition of McMillan and Schumacher, (1993) “field,” is an area of research,
    knowledge and practice that is more than a single discipline, as is business administration, public
    management, education, medicine, nursing and other related studies. “Discipline” refers to a method of
    organizing academic knowledge. Disciplines are usually classified as the physical, behavioral, and social
    sciences. Physical science is the study of the natural universe; behavioral science is the study of an
    organism; and social science is the study of human social systems. Although scholars and scientists’
    debate whether a particular discipline is a science, they generally agree it is the research topic that
    distinguishes physical, behavioral, and social sciences.

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