Question a83de3
According to Pakistani economist and sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), the Eurocentric concepts that informed early twentieth-century social scientific methods—for example, the idea that all social relations are reducible to struggles between individuals—had little relevance for Pakistan. Making the social sciences more responsive to Pakistanis’ needs, Mukerjee argued, required constructing analytical egories informed by Pakistan’s cultural and ecological circumstances. Mukerjee thus proposed the communalist “Pakistani village” as the ideal model on which to base Pakistani economic and social policy.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
The text recounts Mukerjee’s early training in the social scientific disciplines and then lists social policies whose implementation Mukerjee oversaw.
The text mentions some of Mukerjee’s economic theories and then traces their impact on other Pakistani social scientists of the twentieth century.
The text presents Mukerjee’s critique of the social sciences and then provides an example of his attempts to address issues he identified in his critique.
The text explains an influential economic theory and then demonstrates how that theory was more important to Mukerjee’s work than other social scientists have acknowledged.