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Explain the significance of empirical approach to the study of Indian society. How does the use of historical approach enrich empirical orientation.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Indian sociology was born textual. Its empirical turn in the 1950s replaced the shastric norm with observed conduct in a located community, giving the discipline a means of verification. But fieldwork sees a society only at the moment of looking; history alone tells whether that moment is immemorial or twenty years old.

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  • What the empirical approach displaced
  • What fieldwork established
  • The limit fieldwork cannot cross
  • How the historical approach enriches it
  • Conclusion

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