What would you like to find out? and How?

To start with, I need to be clear about what I want to find out through my research.
To think about answering this question already includes some assumptions inevitably because what I want to know must be constructed by existing knowledge, theories, concepts, or whatever, or I need to use existing relevant language to describe what I want to know, why I have come to want to know this.

Next, I also need to be clear about how I am going to approach my research questions.
This is often called as researchers' epistemology.

Research methodology is referred to as combination of those mentioned above. Therefore, it includes research questions (including how the reseacher has reached these questions), objectives, underlying value, design, sampling methods, ways of analysis, and assumptions about possible modes of presentation of research outcomes.

What I have learned from the module on research skills may be that we have to understand the whole picture concerning research (investigation, inquiry into social problems) so that we will be able to avoid being trapped in pitfalls that make us concerned only with diverse sets of knowledge about study types, designs, methods for data collection and analysis, and so on. In other words, I have just studied philosophies (epistemology and ontology) of reseach of social science.
At this moment, I have noticed that I will have to learn more about practical techniques of social science research...