A researcher plans to study child rearing practices in a village in Odisha. Consider the following statements:
Statement I: She need not take global interconnection into account, as a single village is a local unit.
Statement II: Sociologists cannot study society as though it was an isolated entity.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Statement I: She need not take global interconnection into account, as a single village is a local unit. — Incorrect. Even a single village is tied to the wider world. Sociologists have to study villages and child rearing practices taking global interconnection into account.
Statement II: Sociologists cannot study society as though it was an isolated entity. — Correct. The compression of space and time links every society to others. So a sociologist cannot study a society as though it were an isolated entity.
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