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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 9

Q1 | Which of the following is a complex household?
  • one parental family and part of a parental family
  • unmarried brothers and sisters
  • a man and his wife
  • a mother and her unmarried children
Q2 | Research in Social Sciences can unfold and identify the causes of
  • life success
  • life failure
  • social evils and problems
  • life style
Q3 | Systematic research can give us the required data base for planning and
  • implementation of those plans
  • designing developmental schemes and programmes
  • speculation
  • designing life style
Q4 | A systematized body of knowledge will properly helps us to implement
  • better social institutions
  • better educational institutions
  • better social planning for the development of entire human society
  • none of these
Q5 | Which of the following is a complex household?
  • two or more parental families
  • unmarried brothers and sisters
  • a man and his wife
  • a mother and her unmarried children
Q6 | Who said that property is the root of all evil which brought about war,conflict, and misery
  • montesquieu
  • locke
  • hobbes
  • rousseau
Q7 | Which of the following is a simple household?
  • two or more parental families
  • one parental family and part of a parental family
  • part of one parental family and part of another parental family
  • a man and his wife
Q8 | Enlightenment was to a large extent based on
  • profit motive
  • humanitarian principles
  • practical wisdom
  • all the above
Q9 | The _________ approach was influenced by Marxist tradition
  • dialectical approach
  • functional approach
  • indological approach
  • structural approach
Q10 | Who tells about Universal law and Natural Law?
  • montesquieu
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • john locke
Q11 | The ______ family is defined as consisting of a man, his wife and unmarriedchildren.
  • complicated
  • complex
  • parental
  • compound
Q12 | Which of the following is a complex household?
  • part of one parental family and part of another parental family
  • unmarried brothers and sisters
  • a man and his wife
  • a mother and her unmarried children
Q13 | Which would facilitate reliable and valid study of human behavior andsocial life
  • new scientific tools
  • concepts
  • theories
  • all the above
Q14 | To clarify the doubtful and correct the misconceived facts of social life wedepend up on the study of
  • social sciences
  • natural science
  • physical science
  • mathematics
Q15 | _____ approach concentrates on change as a transition from simple tocomplex
  • unilinear
  • multilinear
  • cyclical
  • universal
Q16 | The concept of dominant caste was introduced by________.
  • a.r.desai
  • m.n.srinivas
  • iravati karve
  • yogendra singh
Q17 | Verification of knowledge of human behavior and social life is happeningthrough
  • social research
  • observation.
  • knowledge seeking
  • thorough reading
Q18 | The conflict between religious learning and beliefs and rationality learningand beliefs is the basic characteristic of
  • modern era
  • educated society
  • renaissance
  • none of these
Q19 | Research strengthens our
  • capacity to live
  • desire for truth and knowledge
  • desire for community living
  • capacity to understand things
Q20 | A discipline-specific study of social problem from an angle cannot give a
  • thorough understanding of the issue
  • perfect picture of the issue
  • correct and total view of the problem
  • none of the above
Q21 | Whose suggestion was that the social order was made by human beings andtherefore could be changed by human beings
  • hobbes
  • locke
  • laski
  • gandhi
Q22 | The book ‘Ethics and Politics’ was written by
  • socrates
  • aristotle
  • william scott
  • ralph linton
Q23 | The main function of research is
  • discovery facts
  • interpretation social mysteries
  • understand social reality
  • all the above
Q24 | Who said this-In reality there are no economic, sociological orpsychological problems, but only simple problems, and they are complex also
  • myrdal
  • skinner
  • kohler
  • piaget
Q25 | Locke believed that human beings were originally
  • isolated independent being
  • social cooperative being
  • asocial competitive being
  • none of these