methodology

詳細解釋：

meth.od.ol.o.gy

n.（名詞）
【複數】 meth.od.ol.o.gies

A body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an inquiry; a set of working methods:
一套方法：從事某一學科或進行某項研究的人使用的一整套方法、步驟和規則；一整套工作方法：
例句：
the methodology of genetic studies; an opinion poll marred by faulty methodology.
遺傳學研究的方法；被錯誤地損害了效果的觀點調查

The study or theoretical analysis of such working methods.
方法學：對於這種工作方法的研究或理論分析
The branch of logic that deals with the general principles of the formation of knowledge.
方 * ：研究知識形成的一般性原則的邏輯分支
Usage Problem Means, technique, or procedure; method.
【用法疑難】 方法：手段、技巧或步驟；辦法

【引伸】
meth.odolog.ical
meth.odolog.ically
adv.（副詞）
Methodology can properly refer to the theoretical analysis of the methods appropriate to a field of study or to the body of methods and principles particular to a branch of knowledge.In this sense,one may speak ofobjections to the methodology of a geographic survey (i.e., objections dealing with the appropriateness of the methods used) or of themethodology of modern cognitive psychology (i.e., the principles and practices that underlie research in the field). In recent years, however,methodology has been increasingly used as a pretentious substitute for method in scientific and technical contexts, as inThe oil company has not yet decided on a methodology for restoring the beaches. This usage may have been fostered in part by the tendency to use the adjectivemethodological to mean .pertaining to methods,. in as much as the regularly formed adjectivemethodical has been preempted to mean .orderly, systematic.. But the misuse ofmethodology obscures an important conceptual distinction between the tools of scientific investigation (properly methods ) and the principles that determine how such tools are deployed and interpreted—a distinction that the scientific and scholarly communities, if not the wider public,should be expected to maintain.
Methodology 可指對一個學科的研究方法進行的理論分析， 也可指一個學科特有的一整套方法與步驟。在這種意義上，人們可以說對於一個地理調查所用方法提出的異議 （即，關於所用方法是否適當所提的異議）， 也可以說現代認知心理學的研究方法 （即，形成一門學科的研究基礎的原則和方法）。 然而，近些年來，在科學、技術語境中，methodology 越來越多地被用做頗帶炫耀誇張色彩的 method 的替換詞， 如說石油公司尚未決定恢復海灘環境的方法。 這種用法可能部分地起因於用形容詞methodological 來表示.與方法有關的.意思的傾向， 因為用常規方法構成的形容詞methodical 已先行意味著.有序的，有系統的.。 但是methodology 的這種錯誤用法模糊了一個重要的概念區分，那就是科學研究的方法（正確的說法應是 methods )和決定這些方法如何運用和闡釋的原則之間的區分——這個區分， 如果不為更多的大眾所認識，至少應為科學和學者圈子所堅持