1 CHAPTER 1 Methodological Issues in Social Research: Experience from the Twenty-First Century Nasir Uddin 1.1 PRIMER The methodology of social research has been transformed along with the meta- morphosis of the socio-economic and political rhetoric and the reality across the globe. Because of its various experience and experiments depending on the subjects, contexts and regions, social research methodology itself has become an issue of research in the twenty-frst century. The feldwork challenges vary from discipline to discipline and from region to region because every discipline in social sciences, despite having some identical broader frameworks, has its distinctive tone of interpretation and every region has its own social, political, historical and ecological settings. Social research involves the researcher’s engagement, interpersonal attachment, and impersonal affection in dealing with persons; the object of study (See, Uddin, 2011). Since social research and its methodologies tend to change and evolve from time to time, new and newer feldwork experiences are needed to reformulate the model and module of social research methods and methodologies. Hence, a new form of methodol- ogy could be framed that refects the researcher’s personal, political, social, cultural and emotional holdings being developed and formed throughout the researcher’s socialization and socio-cultural upbringing across time and space (See, Uddin, 2022). Consequently, social research is not simply a typical ‘academic practice’ that follows an innocent ‘professional genre’ and ‘research rituals’; rather it heavily entangles with the researcher’s lived experiences of N. Uddin (*) Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh e-mail: nasir.anthro@cu.ac.bd © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 N. Uddin, A. Paul (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13615-3_1