July 2024 and January 2025
Assignment I
Answer the following Descriptive Category questions in about 500 words each. Each question carries 20 marks.
- What do you understand by ‘research’? Explain different types of research in Social Sciences.
- Explain the nature and scope of case study method in sociological research.
Assignment II
Answer the following Middle Category questions in about 250 words each. Each question carries 10 marks.
- Discuss the relevance of social networking websites in research.
- What is systematic random sampling procedure? Outline its main disadvantages.
- What is Malinowski’s contribution to fieldwork?
Assignment III
Answer the following Short Category questions in about 100 words each. Each question carries 6 marks.
- What do you understand by dispersion in the context of qualitative data?
- Distinguish between histogram and historiogram.
- What is ungrouped data? Explain with an example.
- In what way does arithmetic mean differ from median of a distribution?
- What is a research problem?
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