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Write short answer of the following in about 150 words: In what way biographies could be used to study social life?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Research Methods and Analysis

W.I. Thomas, working with Florian Znaniecki, gave sociology its founding demonstration that a single individual's personal account — letters, diaries, an autobiographical statement — could be treated as legitimate sociological data, not merely as anecdotal colour.

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  • What Biography Uniquely Reveals
  • The Method's Limitation

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