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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Methods of science and sociology

  • UPSC 1995
  • Sociology as a Science

Early sociology, from Auguste Comte's "social physics" onward, sought legitimacy by borrowing the methods that had made the natural sciences successful, and Emile Durkheim carried this ambition furthest by insisting social facts be studied with the same rigour as things in the natural world.

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  • Observation
  • The Comparative Method
  • Statistical and Correlational Analysis
  • The Survey as an Approximate Sample

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