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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Distinguish between quantitative and qualitative techniques of data collection with suitable examples from Indian society.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Durkheim's statistical treatment of suicide and Weber's insistence on interpretive understanding stand at the head of two distinct traditions that Indian social research has inherited and continues to combine — quantitative technique built on positivism, qualitative technique built on interpretivism.

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  • Two Techniques, Two Epistemologies
  • Quantitative Technique in the Indian Context
  • Qualitative Technique in the Indian Context
  • Why Numbers Cannot Reach What Interviews Can — Geertz's Anchor
  • Complementarity Rather Than Rivalry

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