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This set of Methodology and Perspectives of Social Sciences Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Methodology And Perspectives Of Social Sciences Set 12

Q1 | ______________is the systematic study of society and human social action
  • sociology
  • anthropology
  • ) political science
  • economics
Q2 | _______________set up the first European department of sociology at theUniversity of Bordeaux in 1895
  • emile durkheim
  • auguste comte
  • max weber
  • georg simmel
Q3 | _________________has been regarded as the study of early (primitive)cultures
  • anthropology
  • history
  • sociology
  • political science
Q4 | Large households consist of ____________ members
  • 3 or less
  • 4 to 6
  • 7 to 9
  • 10 or more
Q5 | Rules of sociological method was written by
  • webber
  • comte
  • dukheime
  • merton
Q6 | Very large households consist of ____________ members
  • 3 or less
  • 4 to 6
  • 7 to 9
  • 10 or more
Q7 | ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ is the work of
  • john locke
  • laski
  • plato
  • lumberg
Q8 | ‘Social science could not be value free’ Who told this?
  • parson
  • merton
  • alfred schutz
  • karl pearson
Q9 | The term objectivity is always associated with .............. method
  • objective
  • political
  • scientific method
  • statistical
Q10 | Which branch of sociology rejects objectivity
  • philosophy
  • ethnomethodology
  • functionalism
  • conflict theory
Q11 | Based on the size, Shah classified households into
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Q12 | ______ is defined as “the irruption of the biological into social life”.
  • pollution
  • purity
  • impurity
  • divinity
Q13 | ‘Logic of social enquiry’ was written by
  • dumond
  • desai
  • gibson
  • weber
Q14 | ‘Positivism’ is advocated by ....................
  • karl marx
  • herbert spencer
  • auguste comte
  • m.n. srinivas
Q15 | .............. defined the subject matter of sociology as Social Facts.
  • krishnamurthy
  • durkheim
  • merton
  • parson
Q16 | Max Webber was born in ....................... country
  • france
  • germany
  • india
  • italy
Q17 | The interpretation of society through sex is advocated by ........
  • adolf hitler
  • alexander
  • sigmund freud
  • simmel
Q18 | Based on the composition, Shah classified households into ______
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Q19 | Emilie Durkheim was born in
  • 1818
  • 1868
  • 1858
  • 1900)
Q20 | Who argued that value of freedom in social research is a myth
  • structuralists
  • functionalists
  • feminists
  • marxists
Q21 | ....................... effect the objectivity of the study
  • personal bias
  • morality
  • customs
  • ethics
Q22 | Researchers personal values are called.................
  • attributes
  • variables
  • subjectivity
  • patterns
Q23 | A set of moral principles and values are called............‘
  • methods
  • rules
  • tools
  • ethics
Q24 | Auguste Comte proposed a shift from social philosophy to ...................
  • physics
  • economics
  • social science
  • commerce
Q25 | The concept ‘value freedom’ is the contribution to social research by.....................
  • karl person
  • karl mannheim
  • karl marx
  • max weber