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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 16

Q1 | The development of modern ‘econometrics’ is associated with ____________
  • Maurice Dobb
  • D.A. Robertson
  • Alfred Marshall
  • Adam Smith
Q2 | Famous Economist J.M. Keynes belongs to ____________
  • Italy
  • France
  • England
  • Spain
Q3 | J.M. Keynes’ most well-known work is?
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
  • Industry and Trade
  • Money Credit and Commerce
  • The Phenomenology of Spirit
Q4 | Who wrote the work “Principi di scienzanuova”?
  • Vico
  • Herder
  • Kant
  • David Hume
Q5 | Keynes’ theory of employment is called ____________
  • Effective demand theory of employment
  • Consumer’s surplus theory
  • Defective demand theory of employment
  • Elasticity of demand’
Q6 | Vico was a strong critique of___________
  • Humanism
  • Empiricism
  • Cartesian Philosophy
  • structural functionalism
Q7 | Who wrote the book “One More Philosophy of History”?
  • Immanual Kant
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Herder
  • Descartes
Q8 | Herder’s philosophy of history and culture paved the way for ________ in Germany.
  • Romanticism
  • Rationalism
  • Empiricism
  • generalization
Q9 | Famous historian Ranke was born in the year _________
  • 1798
  • 1795
  • 1796
  • 1798
Q10 | Who among the following was credited for making history an autonomous and scientificdiscipline?
  • Ranke
  • Herder
  • Carlyle
  • David Hume
Q11 | The great efforts of Ranke for the transformation of history or towards a scientific history called?
  • Berlin Revolution
  • Berlin Renaissance
  • Berlin Historiography
  • Berlin History
Q12 | Who wrote the famous book “History of the Latin and German Peoples”?
  • Hegel
  • Kant
  • Ranke
  • David Hume
Q13 | “The Phenomenology of Spirit” was written by?
  • Ranke
  • Herder
  • Hegel
  • Descartes
Q14 | The greatest philosophical achievement of Hegel was the systematic development of _________
  • Logical method
  • Deductive method
  • Dialectical method
  • generalization
Q15 | The concept of “thesis”, “antithesis” and “synthesis” put forth by ________
  • August Comte
  • Max Weber
  • Hegel
  • David Hume
Q16 | Who is credited with the statement ‘knowledge is power?’
  • Francis Bacon*
  • Roger Bacon
  • Galileo
  • Newton
Q17 | Name the scholar who laid great emphasis on experimentation and observation?
  • Aristotle
  • Francis Bacon*
  • St.Augstine
  • Plato
Q18 | Author of ‘Advancement of Learning?’
  • John Locke
  • Francis Bacon*
  • David Hume
  • Thomas Hobbes
Q19 | Author of ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France?’
  • Edmund Burke*
  • Arthur Young
  • Adam Smith
  • A.J.P.Taylor
Q20 | What is called ‘science of society?’
  • History
  • anthropology
  • Ethnography
  • Sociology*
Q21 | Who propounded the positivist philosophy?
  • J.S.Mill
  • St.Simon
  • Auguste Comte*
  • Edmund Burke
Q22 | Author of ‘NovumOrganum?’
  • Francis bacon *
  • Descartes
  • Vicco
  • Leibniz
Q23 | Author of ‘Rules of Sociological Method?’
  • Auguste Comte
  • Emile Durkheim*
  • Max Weber
  • Karl Marx
Q24 | Who called facts in social science as ‘social facts?’
  • Auguste Comte
  • Emile Durkheim*
  • Max Weber
  • Karl Marx
Q25 | . Who opined that the aim of history is ‘to show what actually happened?’
  • Ranke*
  • Niebuhr
  • Comte
  • Durkheim