NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Sociology Chapter 5 Doing Sociology: Research Methods
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Sociology Chapter 5 Doing Sociology: Research Methods Class 11 Sociology Chapter 5 NCERT Textbook Questions Solved Question 1. Why is the question of a scientific method particularly important in sociology? Answer: A science is expected to be objective, factual and verifiable but this is relatively difficult in comparison to physical sciences. Sociologists used scientific method to discover social facts. Like the physical and natural sciences, sociology also has developed various scientific methods in its subject matter. Sociology being a scientific discipline, the main element is the method used to derive facts. For sociologists being social scientist, it is not very important how much they know or what they know instead of them, important is how they know? How do they derive facts? Sociologists derive their facts through research methods, using different techniques and tools. Research is the ‘aim’ and the method is the means for sociologists to attain the...