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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note on the following, keeping sociological perspective in view: Comparative method.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Herbert Spencer treated the comparative method as another name for the scientific method itself, applied to society: since sociology cannot experiment in a laboratory, systematically comparing societies is what makes it scientific at all.

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  • Spencer's Comparative Method as the Discipline's Basic Tool
  • Durkheim's Refinement — and a Fresh Use: The Single Case as Experiment
  • The Sociological Use of Comparison, Distinguished from Other Disciplines
  • An Indian Illustration: Comparing Caste across Regions

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