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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 8

Q1 | ‘Republic’ is the work of
  • socratese
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • none of these
Q2 | According to whom was the universe a machine made up of particlesmoving according to a mechanical law.
  • r.park
  • rousseau
  • hobbes
  • aristotle
Q3 | The master piece of Hobbes
  • leviathan
  • the elements of law
  • essay concerning human understanding
  • none of these
Q4 | ’Leviathan’ was published in the year
  • 1640
  • 1650
  • 1621
  • 1651
Q5 | Hobbes believed that the very principle of the universe is
  • the movement or motion
  • passion and imagination
  • critical thinking
  • observation
Q6 | Weber’s social research gives importance to......................
  • results
  • methods
  • rules
  • value of freedom
Q7 | ‘The Elements of Law’ was published in the year
  • 1650
  • 1640
  • 1630
  • 1651
Q8 | Thomas Hobbes’ interest in philosophy was greatly stimulated by hisdiscovery of the world of
  • sociology
  • mathematics
  • biology
  • astronomy
Q9 | The _________ approach talks about social change as a process occurring atdifferent levelsand proceeding in different directions.
  • unilinear
  • multilinear
  • cyclical
  • universal
Q10 | ....................... is central to the procedures of scientific method
  • oral history
  • comparison
  • objectivity
  • customs
Q11 | The major task of the state is the preservation of the liberty, peace, safetyand public good of the people- Who commented so?
  • hobbes
  • locke
  • rousseau
  • moynihan
Q12 | Rousseau believed that refer of society would only be possible if allmembers shared equally in the construction of
  • culture and belief
  • nature and behavior
  • pattern of life
  • laws for human’s common happiness
Q13 | Whose belief is that man’s original nature was corrupted by society and thatthe only way man could become virtuous, moral being was to totally transformsociety.
  • rousseau
  • hobbes
  • john locke
  • montesquieu
Q14 | Rousseau’s focus was on the possibility of
  • social condition and situation
  • exchanging ideas
  • life experiences
  • drastic social change
Q15 | Rousseau thought that society was formed as a result of
  • human interaction
  • faith and belief
  • give and take relationship of human beings
  • a contract among individuals
Q16 | Research can give us sound guideline for the appropriate measure of
  • education
  • field work
  • data collection
  • reform and social welfare
Q17 | Not only as a method to understand social reality around us, Social Scienceshelp us to
  • develop insights into the nature of human beings
  • understand the life style of human beings
  • develop insights into human being’s communication
  • find out the development of human beings
Q18 | Enlightenment thought laid the ground work for the development of
  • religious notions
  • speculations
  • social scientific thought
  • all the above
Q19 | The _____ approach analyses social change as a gradual development from simple tocomplexforms
  • evolutionary approach
  • dialectical approach
  • indological approach
  • structural approach
Q20 | Social Sciences try to understand human behavior and its interaction withthe environment and
  • society
  • community
  • social institutions
  • social phenomena
Q21 | Which approach examines social change in the context of Indian culture andphilosophy?
  • evolutionary approach
  • functional approach
  • indological approach
  • structural approach
Q22 | The _____ approach analyses social change as a gradual development fromsimple to complexforms
  • evolutionary approach
  • dialectical approach
  • indological approach
  • structural approach
Q23 | ” Man lives in a socio- economic and political world and thrives on its variedrelationships. It is inconceivable that the study of bare and isolated events onany aspect of man’s life would yield any meaningful result”- Who stated so?
  • karl marx
  • karl mannheim
  • karl pearson
  • none of the above
Q24 | Who among the following used dialectical approach to explain the emergence of nationalismin India
  • a.r.desai
  • m.n.srinivas
  • d.p.mukherjee
  • yogendra singh
Q25 | A recent trend in Social science research is
  • single disciplinary approach
  • interdisciplinary approach
  • direct observation method
  • field study