Thinker
Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal is central to 6 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2020 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
6Questions
2009–20Years tested
I & IIPaper
2Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Gunnar Myrdal
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
reflexivity 4value neutrality 4value relevance 4objectivity 3fact-value distinction 2double hermeneuticethical neutralityfact–value distinctioninclusive developmentobjectivity versus subjectivitypositivismrelative and absolute deprivationsocial exclusionsocial transformationstructural inequalityvalue neutrality and value relevanceverstehen
Where Gunnar Myrdal appears in the syllabus
Every question on Gunnar Myrdal
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2015
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