ABSTRACT
Research "method", as conventionally conceived of, in the social sciences, conventionally ranging from quantitative to qualitative, is a form of universalized "data processing", drawn, for example, from census data, interviews, focus groups, statistically based polling, questionnaires or case studies. Characteristically and ironically, "social" science research, conventionally led by universities, is individually oriented, while natural science research and development, typically conducted, and thereby institutionalized, within corporate or governmental research laboratories, is team-, if not also organizationally oriented. Few researchers, as such, or indeed more especially research institutions, are aware of the fact that research method and methodology are each a part of a more integral particular–universal whole, thereby incorporated into what we term our "integral research trajectory" or rhythm. The same "research method" course would apply to practitioners, engaged with us in "research" projects from China or India, South Africa or the Arab world.
