Twice born: a study of a community of high-caste Hindus

By:

Carstairs, G. Morris

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Hogarth Press; 1957Description: 343pSubject(s):

Sociology

DDC classification:

305.52 Car

Summary: Excerpt from The Twice-Born: A Study of a Community of High-Caste Hindus Advances in the application of scientific knowledge to our understanding of man have been dependent on two develop ments, methods of observing other human beings and methods of observing ourselves, as observers. Articulateness about the observed, unrelieved by articulateness about the biases and blindness's of the observer gives us arid material, either devoid of all meaning or so heavily weighted with unacknowledged emotions that they are meaningful only to those who share the same biases.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Excerpt from The Twice-Born: A Study of a Community of High-Caste Hindus
Advances in the application of scientific knowledge to our understanding of man have been dependent on two develop ments, methods of observing other human beings and methods of observing ourselves, as observers. Articulateness about the observed, unrelieved by articulateness about the biases and blindness's of the observer gives us arid material, either devoid of all meaning or so heavily weighted with unacknowledged emotions that they are meaningful only to those who share the same biases.

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