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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 4

Q1 | The term sociology was derived from Greek term logos and _____ word socius meaning ‘companion’or ‘society’
  • french
  • latin
  • german
  • austric
Q2 | _____ is central to the procedures of scientific method
  • oral history
  • comparison
  • objectivity
  • customs
Q3 | _____ affect the objectivity of the study
  • personal bias
  • morality
  • customs
  • ethics
Q4 | The word Psychology comes from the ancient Greek psyche which means _____
  • society
  • man
  • mind
  • brain
Q5 | Positivism is advocated by _____
  • karl marx
  • herbert spencer
  • auguste comte
  • durkheim
Q6 | ______ is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields
  • natural sciences
  • human sciences
  • social sciences
  • psychical sciences
Q7 | Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as the basis of behaviouralism moment by DavidEaston
  • quantifications
  • values
  • systematization
  • pure science
Q8 | The branch of philosophy that studies assumptions about the nature of reality and existence is
  • epistemology
  • ontology
  • methodology
  • phenomenology
Q9 | The philosophical area which deals with the problem of being is called ______
  • axiology
  • epistemology
  • materialism
  • ontology
Q10 | Epistemology is concerned with _____ of knowledge
  • origin
  • validity
  • limitations
  • all of these
Q11 | Rationalism and empiricism represent the philosophy of the ______ era
  • ancient
  • medieval
  • contemporary
  • modern
Q12 | ‘Science of society is possible’ is assumed by which approach
  • humanist
  • positivist
  • functionalist
  • feminist
Q13 | Positivists tend to be skeptical of
  • science
  • religion
  • human goodness
  • none of the above
Q14 | How did Post Positivism relate to Positivism
  • its criticized positivism but held on some of its features
  • it advocated abandoning positivism altogether
  • it was a continuation of positivism
  • none of the above
Q15 | The concept of Rights, Property, Liberty, Equality and Justice are related to—
  • dictatorship
  • aristocracy
  • democracy
  • oligarchy
Q16 | The legal theory of Rights believes that—
  • the rights are created by the state
  • the rights are created by the nature
  • the rights are created by the society
  • the rights are eternal
Q17 | Civil Rights are given to the individuals by—
  • the state
  • the people
  • nature
  • society
Q18 | Who first gave the Concept of ‘Distributive Justice’?
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • machiavelli
  • locke
Q19 | Negative liberty implies that,
  • freedom should be unlimited
  • freedom should be restricted
  • freedom from wants
  • freedom to rule
Q20 | The word ‘ Democracy’ means,
  • power of the government
  • power of the representatives
  • power of the people
  • power of the executive
Q21 | ‘Who Governs’ is a work by
  • a.b. hall
  • laski
  • robert .a. dahl
  • plato
Q22 | Direct democracy was established in
  • ancient greek city-states
  • latin american states
  • ancient india
  • african states
Q23 | Which approach is, according to Robert A Dahl, “an attempt to make the empirical content ofPolitical Science more scientific “
  • institutional approach
  • historical approach
  • philosophical approach
  • behavioural approach
Q24 | ‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This statement explains the following
  • post-behaviouralism
  • behaviouralism
  • positivism
  • empiricism
Q25 | . Who introduced the concept of natural rights?
  • john locke
  • green
  • laski
  • barker