MGS-5 Solved Assignment English Medium 2025-26

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IGNOU MGS-5 Solved Assignment English Medium 2025-26

MASTER OF ARTS (GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES) MAGD
ASSIGNMENTS 2025-26
First Year Courses
(For the students who took admission in January 2025 or prior)

MGS- 005: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA -01)
Programme Code: MAGD
Course Code: MGS-005
Assignment Code: MGS-005/AST-01/TMA/2025-26

Note: Answer all the questions. While questions in Section A carry 20 marks each (to be answered in about 700 words each), those in Section B carry 12 marks each (to be answered in about 500 words each).
Section-A
1. Write an essay on qualitative research methods and their utility in gender and development studies.
2. Discuss interview schedules and questionnaires as research tools.
Section B
3. What is sampling? Discuss its various types with the help of suitable examples.
4. Discuss the salient features of writing up research reports.
5. Explain the features of the feminist method.
6. Choose an appropriate topic of interest related to Gender and Development Studies and Prepare a research design of your proposed research after selecting (tentatively) a topic of your interest. The research design needs to incorporate all the steps shown in Figure 14.1. of the Unit 14 in the Course.
7. Write short notes on the following:
i) Positivist Approach
ii) Sampling
iii) Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)
iv) Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)

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