Peculiarities of application of sociological methods of collecting empirical information in military and pedagogical scientific research

Abstract

The authors of this article show the peculiarities of the application of such sociological methods of collecting primary empirical information in military and pedagogical research as: opinion poll, sociological observation, sociological experiment, method of content analysis. The authors offer an overview of scientific developments of native researchers on the practical application of sociological methods in psychological and pedagogical research. This overview showed that it is mainly literature of an educational and methodological nature. The authors also suggested a list of scientific publications that highlight the results of research in which methods of opinion poll, observation, experiment and content analysis were used. The authors emphasize that despite the active use of these methods in research of military-pedagogical and military-psychological nature, there is a lack of publications that would highlight the peculiarities of the use of sociological tools in applied military-pedagogical research. The latter became the purpose of this publication. Moreover, the article provides a brief overview of such methods as: opinion poll, sociological observation, experiment and content analysis. The authors define methods, their varieties, describe the advantages and disadvantages of their application, briefly define the peculiarities of their application in military pedagogical research. Summing up, the authors outline the prospects for further scientific research. The next step is to conduct an empirical military-pedagogical study, the results of which and the peculiarities of the application of one of the sociological methods described in this article will be shown in the next joint publication.