Thinker
Robert Redfield
Robert Redfield is central to 8 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2025 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.
8Questions
2010–25Years tested
I & IIPaper
4Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Robert Redfield
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
little and great tradition 5orthogenetic and heterogenetic change 5structural and cultural change 2agrarian social structurecaste, land and powercivilisational analysiscivilizational analysiscontinuity and changecultural performancecultural performancescultural pluralismdifferentiation and integrationhierarchy holism continuity transcendenceislamic and western contactlittle community and civilizationmodernisation of traditionmodernizationparochialisation
Where Robert Redfield appears in the syllabus
Every question on Robert Redfield
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
2022
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