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Doing Sociology : Research Methods
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Discuss how the historical method can be explained through Karl Marx’s description of class conflict.

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Historical Method and Karl Marx :

1. Historical method has been employed by Karl Marx (the father of modern scientific socialism) in conjunction with dialectical materialism in understanding the human societies.

2. Marx believed that the materialistic structure of societies (i.e. two classes of the industrial societies i.e. the working class and the capitalists class) accounts for their developmental, and thus, he took the philosophical device and applied to the materialistic view of society.

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Some More Questions From Doing Sociology : Research Methods Chapter

What is meant of the following terms/words :

(a) Case Study

(b) Close - Ended Questions

(c) Coding

(d) Rapport

(e) Reliability

(f) Community Study

(g) Concept

(h) Control Group

(i) Questionnaire

Write the short the meaning of the following terms/words :

(a) Non-Participant Observation

(b) Methodology

(c) Field Study

(d) Interview Bias

(e) Generalization

(f) Interview

(g) Independent Variable

(h) Selection

Write in brief the meaning of the followings :

(i) Participant Observation

(ii) Open-ended Questions

(iii) Corporative Analysis

(iv) Dependent Variable

(v) Observation

(vi) Documents

(vii) Experimental Group

What should be done to know the nature of society ? Why is it difficult to know it ?

Distinguish between a response and a datum.

The observation is possible in the following four ways :

(i) Participant Observation

(ii) Participant as Observer

(iii) Observer as participant, and

(iv) Observer as Observer

Why is the questions of a scientific method particularly important in sociology ?

How do sociologists try to deal with these difficulties and strive for objectivity ?

What is meant by ‘reflexivity’ and why is it important in sociology ?

What are the borsie elements of the survey method ? What is chief advantage of this method ?