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Discuss the challenges during village studies in India.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Village studies made Indian sociology an empirical discipline, but the method it relied on — one fieldworker living for months inside a single settlement — carries difficulties that are social before they are technical. The researcher enters a stratified society already carrying a caste, a gender and a language, and what can be learnt is…

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  • Entry, rapport and the fieldworker's own location
  • Whose voice is recorded
  • Defining and dating the object
  • Ethics, records and resources
  • Conclusion

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