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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Theory and Fact.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Sociology as a Science

Robert Merton treated the relationship between theory and fact as thoroughly reciprocal rather than one-directional — theory guides which facts a researcher considers worth collecting, while facts in turn actively work upon theory, reshaping it in several distinct ways.

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  • How Theory Shapes Fact
  • How Fact Acts on Theory: Merton's Reciprocal Functions
  • Reading the Relationship as Genuinely Two-Way

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