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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 10

Q1 | The work ‘Two Treatises of Government’ was written by
  • rousseau
  • locke
  • gandhi
  • none of these
Q2 | Who among the following used dialectical approach to explain theemergence of nationalism in India
  • a.r.desai
  • m.n.srinivas
  • d.p.mukherjee
  • yogendra singh
Q3 | The scientific approach to the study of human beings seeks to emphasize theneed to blend the perspectives of
  • arts, mathematics and science
  • nature, culture and civilization
  • natural sciences, social sciences and humanities
  • all the above
Q4 | The concept of purity and pollution acts as the basis for _______
  • caste system
  • class system
  • estate system
  • political system
Q5 | The term ‘Social Sciences’ first appeared in the work of
  • william thompson
  • j. schumpeter
  • m. weber
  • harry johnson
Q6 | According to_________________ ‘Sociology and Anthropology are twinsisters’.
  • kroeber
  • malinowski
  • parsons
  • wallenstein
Q7 | Who said that an encounter between Indian and western traditions createdcultural contradictions which generated a dialectical process of conflict out ofwhich arose a synthesis which was the new middle class.
  • a.r.desai
  • m.n.srinivas
  • d.p.mukherjee
  • yogendra singh
Q8 | . ________________ combines physical and human geography
  • ecological geography
  • environmental geography
  • historical geography
  • cultural geography
Q9 | .Among the following _______________ is not a trend seen in present dayacademics
  • specialisation
  • fragmentation
  • hybridisation
  • inter disciplinary approach
Q10 | Among the following who wrote the book ‘First principles’?
  • herbert spencer
  • k.davis
  • malinowski
  • kroeber
Q11 | Which of the following is not correctly matched?
  • herodotus – political science
  • auguste comte – sociology
  • ) adam smith- economics
  • sigmund freud – psychology
Q12 | Who among the following developed an approach in sociology calledfunctionalism
  • nadel
  • levi – strauss
  • durkheim
  • pareto
Q13 | Social science was heavily influenced by _______________
  • theism
  • methodism
  • positivism
  • pietism
Q14 | A caste is considered as dominant if it possesses which of the followingdeterminant features?
  • physical strength
  • mental strength
  • spiritual strength
  • numerical strength
Q15 | The word psychology comes from the ancient Greek psyche which means__________
  • society
  • man
  • mind
  • brian
Q16 | Identify the right sequence of the following thinkers who contributed tofunctionalismin the chronological order
  • parsons, merton, durkheim, spencer
  • merton, durkheim, spencer, parson
  • parsons, spencer, durkheim, merton
  • spencer, durkheim, parsons, merton
Q17 | Public Administration is a prominent branch of _____________________
  • sociology
  • political science
  • economics
  • anthropology
Q18 | . ____________________ is regarded as the ‘father of history’.
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • auguste comte
  • herodotus
Q19 | The term Social Construction of Reality is associated with ___________
  • max weber
  • dahrendorf
  • c.h.cooley
  • peter l. berger
Q20 | The word ‘hybridisation’’ may seem to be imported from ___________
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • biology
  • iconology
Q21 | _______________is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to aplurality of fieldsoutside of the natural sciences.
  • human sciences
  • social sciences
  • earth sciences
  • natural sciences
Q22 | A.M.Shah studied the households in a village called ______ in Gujarat andsubstantiated his concept of household.
  • radhvanaj
  • rampura
  • naxalbari
  • kishangarhi
Q23 | According to ________________ Sociology is the study of web of socialrelationships
  • mac iver
  • harelembos
  • ) ogburn
  • coser
Q24 | Who among the following developed an approach in sociology called functionalism
  • nadel
  • levi – strauss
  • durkheim
  • pareto
Q25 | The Age of ______________saw a revolution within natural philosophy
  • revolutions
  • renaissance
  • enlightenment
  • victoria