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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How does a researcher achieve objectivity in interpretative research?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Sociology as a Science

Max Weber and Alfred Schutz established that interpretative research does not abandon objectivity — it relocates it: instead of detached measurement of external facts, objectivity means disciplined, intersubjectively checkable access to the subjective meanings actors attach to their own conduct.

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  • Bracketing the Researcher's Own Preconceptions
  • Reflexivity as a Continuous, Disclosed Practice
  • Triangulation Across Sources, Methods, and Investigators
  • Respondent Validation and Thick Description
  • Peer Debriefing and Negative-Case Analysis

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