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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : The problem of objectivity in Sociology.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Sociology as a Science

Max Weber insisted that sociology must strive to be value-free even while acknowledging that this ideal is peculiarly hard to realise within the discipline itself.

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  • The Subject Matter Possesses Consciousness and Interprets Itself
  • The Sociologist Studies the Very Society They Are Embedded In
  • Sociological Subject Matter Is Politically and Morally Charged
  • Value Addition
  • Conclusion

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