Knowledge and society: situating sociology and social anthropology

By:

Oommen, T.K

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2007 Oxford University Press New DelhiDescription: x, 195 pISBN:

9780195687750

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.4 O6K6

Summary: This collection of essays by T.K. Oommen emphasizes the importance of contextualization in the production and dissemination of knowledge, and discusses the controversy regarding data collection techniques among sociologists and social anthropologists. It argues that there is an organic relationship between the nature of the themes studied and the methods invoked; the nature and characteristics of the universe studied and the methods employed; and that no method is inherently superior or inferior but they are contextually relevant or irrelevant. (http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=144084)

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This collection of essays by T.K. Oommen emphasizes the importance of contextualization in the production and dissemination of knowledge, and discusses the controversy regarding data collection techniques among sociologists and social anthropologists. It argues that there is an organic relationship between the nature of the themes studied and the methods invoked; the nature and characteristics of the universe studied and the methods employed; and that no method is inherently superior or inferior but they are contextually relevant or irrelevant. (http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=144084)

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