Meaning and Definition:Society is an organized group of persons associated together with shared objectives, norms and values pertain to the society. People have social life and social process.
Research is systematic and organized effort to investigate a specific problem that need a solution. It contributes to the general body of knowledge. It also corrects human knowledge. Social research now can be defined as the systematic and objective analysis and recording of controlled observations that may lead to the development of generalizations, principles or theories resulting in prediction and possibly ultimate control of events in society. It attempts to answer or solve social problem.
According to C. A. Moser: "Social research is a systematized investigation to gain new knowledge about social phenomena and problems."
According to P. V. Young: "Social research is a scientific understanding which by means of logical methods, aim to discover new facts or old facts and to analyze their sequences, interrelationships, casual explanations and natural laws which govern them."
esponses to literary texts. Reader’s responses are important to enough to become the focus of literary interpretation. Reader-response is a broad, exciting, evolving domain of literary studies that can help us learn about our own reading processes and how they related to specific elements in the text we read, our life experiences, and the intellectual community of which we are a member. Reader-response theory maintains that what a text is cannot be separated from what it does. Reader-response theorists share i) the role of the reader cannot be omitted from our understanding of literature and ii) that readers do not passively consume the meaning presented to them by an objective literary text; rather they actively make the meaning they find in literature. The second belief that readers make meaning, suggests that different readers may read the same text quite differently.