Tandon, Rajesh2025-05-092025-05-091981Tandon, R. (1981). Participatory evaluation and research: Main concepts and issues. In W. Fernandes & R. Tandon (Eds.), Participatory Research and Evaluation: Experiments in Research as a Process of Liberation (pp. 15–34). Indian Social Institute.https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22220From the days in the 1930s when the University of Bombay first introduced a post-graduate course in sociology, to our days, there has been a gradual change to the professionalization of the social sciences. With professionalization came specialisation and its acceptance as a science that can be considered objective by creating a distance between the researcher and the 'object' of study i.e., the people studied—actors in the social setting.enBook section