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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Rapport and objectivity in social science research.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Sociology as a Science

Bronislaw Malinowski, credited with founding participant observation as a systematic method, showed that fieldwork demands the researcher build genuine closeness with the people studied, even while claiming the discipline's mantle of scientific detachment.

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  • Why Rapport Is Necessary for Valid Data
  • The Opposite Risk: Over-Rapport and "Going Native"
  • Managing, Not Eliminating, the Trade-off
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