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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 2

Q1 | Which theory of democracy attaches great importance to economic rights of man?
  • marxist theory
  • elite theory
  • pluralist theory
  • all of the above
Q2 | The term ‘liberty’ has been drawn from the Latin term
  • libel
  • lingua
  • labour
  • liber
Q3 | Removing barriers or restrictions said by government is called
  • liberalization
  • investment
  • favorable trade
  • free trade
Q4 | Globalization by connecting countries leads to
  • lesser competition among producers.
  • greater competition among producers.
  • no competition between producers.
  • none of these.
Q5 | ‘Euro centrism’ as the term for an ideology was coined by whom?
  • karl marx
  • green
  • samir amin
  • rousseau
Q6 | During the enlightenment of the 18th century:
  • scholars emphasized the supernatural.
  • scholars denied the possibility of a scientific study of humans.
  • a number of scholars believed human social life could be studied scientifically.
  • none of these.
Q7 | Economics deals with
  • production of goods and services.
  • consumption of goods and services.
  • distribution of goods and services.
  • all of the above.
Q8 | The social science that deals with human use of the natural environment is:
  • genetics
  • geography
  • political science
  • sociology
Q9 | Political science stresses the study of:
  • government
  • state
  • power
  • all of the above
Q10 | Psychology deals with
  • only violent behavior.
  • only normal behavior.
  • mental states of individual humans.
  • groups of people in interaction
Q11 | The study of human group behavior is the definition of
  • psychology
  • sociology
  • geology
  • none of the above
Q12 | The social sciences lack
  • theories
  • concepts
  • scientific laws
  • generalizations
Q13 | Ethical neutrality is the opposite of
  • objectivity
  • generalization
  • judgmental social science
  • participant observation
Q14 | Anthropology is restricted to the study of:
  • primitive people only.
  • pre-historic people only.
  • modern people only.
  • none of these.
Q15 | Objectivity means
  • precision
  • taking nothing for granted
  • eliminating bias
  • repeating observations
Q16 | The study and analysis of preliterate societies is one of the chief concern of
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • anthropology
  • history
Q17 | The study of traits that appear in specific populations as adaptation to specific environment is called
  • physical anthropology
  • cultural anthropology
  • demography
  • psychology
Q18 | Furnishing historical data about past with no written records Is the task of
  • archeology
  • cultural geography
  • history
  • anthropology
Q19 | The most experimental of social sciences is
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • archeology
  • economics
Q20 | The discipline that studies such disparate subjects as the environment religion, politics, criminality,organization and so on, is
  • history
  • sociology
  • political science
  • psychology
Q21 | Which of the following does not fall within the preview of the political liberty
  • right to vote.
  • right to contest elections.
  • right to criticize the government.
  • right to move the court for the enforcement of rights.
Q22 | Political liberty ensures
  • protection against oppressive rule
  • economic equality
  • basic amenities of life
  • none of the above
Q23 | Liberty and equality are
  • complementary to each other
  • contradictory to each other
  • unrelated to each other
  • none of the above
Q24 | The credit for developing behavioural approach for the study of political science goes to
  • the american political scientists.
  • the british political scientists.
  • the german political scientists.
  • the political scientist of the third world.
Q25 | Though the Behaviorist Approach for the study of political science was developed after the firstworld war it gained popularity only
  • in the thirties of the twentieth century.
  • after the second world war .
  • in the sixties of the twentieth century .
  • in the eighties of the twentieth century.