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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Bring out the significance of Ethnography in social research.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Bronislaw Malinowski's fieldwork among the Trobriand Islanders marks the founding moment of ethnography as a disciplined method, breaking decisively with the earlier practice of "armchair" and "verandah" anthropology that relied on missionaries' and travellers' second-hand reports.

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  • The Founding Aim: Grasping the Native's Point of View
  • Unmatched Ecological Validity and Access to the Emic Perspective
  • Reaching the Taken-for-Granted and the Unspoken
  • An Inductive, Theory-Generating Function
  • Access to Hostile, Illiterate, and Otherwise Hard-to-Survey Populations
  • Limitations That Qualify Its Significance Without Cancelling It

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