Social Science Research Methods and Knowledge-Claims

Paramjit S Judge

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Abstract: This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised about the ability of sociological research to come up with the generalisations and make knowledge-claims.

Keywords: sociology; knowledge claims; sociological method; sociological theory; field experience; evidence; social science practice; agricultural studies; agrarian sociology; communal tensions; community; Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-08
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