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Methodology and Perspectives of Social Sciences | Set 1

1. Traditional approach give stress on:

Correct : A. values.

2. ‘Credo of Relevance’ Signaled

Correct : B. behaviouralism.

3. ‘The Intellectual God Father’ of Behaviouralism is

Correct : A. charles .e.merriam

4. Hobbes Theory of Social Contract is explained in his book.

Correct : D. leviathan.

5. Which one of the following is not relevant to Traditional Approach.

Correct : D. behavioural.

6. Integration of Political Science with other Social Sciences Is a basic principle of

Correct : B. behaviouralism.

7. The success of democracy depends upon

Correct : D. all of the above

8. Which of the following is a permanent feature of a representative form of government?

Correct : A. voting.

9. “A right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the state” who said this?

Correct : B. bosanquet

10. Who said “Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can be his best self”

Correct : C. laski

11. The concept of Greek, ‘Justice’ was

Correct : B. moral

12. The origin of democracy can be traced back to

Correct : A. ancient greek city states

13. Who among the following said “Liberty is the opposite of over government”?

Correct : A. seeley

14. A democratic society is one in which

Correct : D. all of the above.

15. Who wrote the book ‘Politics’

Correct : C. aristotle

16. Behavioral approach in political science is “an attempt to make the empirical content of political science more scientific” who said this?

Correct : A. charles. e. merriam

17. Eight principles of Behavioural Approach of political science is generally known as :

Correct : D. intellectual foundations

18. Who wrote the book ‘On liberty’?

Correct : B. j.s mill

19. ‘ A theory of justice ‘is the work of

Correct : C. john rawls

20. The term ‘Globalization’ was coined by

Correct : B. theodore levitt

21. Democracy is rule of

Correct : B. people

22. Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

Correct : C. abraham lincoln

23. The two words ‘demos’ and ‘kratos’ from which democracy draws its origin belong to

Correct : B. greek language.

24. The two forms of democracy are

Correct : B. direct and indirect.

25. Which one of the following theories of democracy accords high priority to the political rights of citizens?

Correct : D. liberal theory of democracy.

26. Which theory of democracy attaches great importance to economic rights of man?

Correct : A. marxist theory

27. The term ‘liberty’ has been drawn from the Latin term

Correct : D. liber

28. Removing barriers or restrictions said by government is called

Correct : A. liberalization

29. Globalization by connecting countries leads to

Correct : B. greater competition among producers.

30. ‘Euro centrism’ as the term for an ideology was coined by whom?

Correct : C. samir amin

31. During the enlightenment of the 18th century:

Correct : C. a number of scholars believed human social life could be studied scientifically.

32. Economics deals with

Correct : D. all of the above.

33. The social science that deals with human use of the natural environment is:

Correct : B. geography

34. Political science stresses the study of:

Correct : D. all of the above

35. Psychology deals with

Correct : C. mental states of individual humans.

36. The study of human group behavior is the definition of

Correct : B. sociology

37. The social sciences lack

Correct : C. scientific laws

38. Ethical neutrality is the opposite of

Correct : C. judgmental social science

39. Anthropology is restricted to the study of:

Correct : D. none of these.

40. Objectivity means

Correct : C. eliminating bias

41. The study and analysis of preliterate societies is one of the chief concern of

Correct : C. anthropology

42. The study of traits that appear in specific populations as adaptation to specific environment is called

Correct : A. physical anthropology

43. Furnishing historical data about past with no written records Is the task of

Correct : A. archeology

44. The most experimental of social sciences is

Correct : B. psychology

45. The discipline that studies such disparate subjects as the environment religion, politics, criminality, organization and so on, is

Correct : B. sociology

46. Which of the following does not fall within the preview of the political liberty

Correct : D. right to move the court for the enforcement of rights.

47. Political liberty ensures

Correct : A. protection against oppressive rule

48. Liberty and equality are

Correct : A. complementary to each other

49. The credit for developing behavioural approach for the study of political science goes to

Correct : A. the american political scientists.

50. Though the Behaviorist Approach for the study of political science was developed after the first world war it gained popularity only

Correct : B. after the second world war .

51. The behaviorist approach to the study of political science was developed as a protest against

Correct : D. all of the above.

52. The behaviorist approach differs from the traditional approach for the study of political science in so far as

Correct : D. it has all the above features

53. Which one of the following is regarded as the most important contribution of behaviouralism to political science

Correct : C. it developed several new tools of research

54. Civil liberty is inherent in the laws of

Correct : A. state

55. Who said: “Where there is no law there is no freedom”?

Correct : B. locke

56. Which one of the following statements is correct

Correct : D. liberty is not total absence of restrains but the existence of socially acceptable restrains

57. The concept of natural liberty is associated with

Correct : B. social contract theory

58. Who among the following was the chief exponent of natural liberty

Correct : A. rousseau

59. Political liberty is often taken as synonymous with

Correct : A. democracy

60. Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Correct : B. civil liberty is granted only to the citizens

61. Which one of the following statements is not correct

Correct : C. economic liberty means common ownership of the means of production and distribution

62. The term ‘Social Sciences’ first appeared in the work of

Correct : A. william thomson

63. ’ Republic’ is the work of

Correct : B. plato

64. In Renaissance human reason placed above

Correct : B. faith

65. The conflict between religious learning and believes and rationality learning and believes is the basic characteristics of

Correct : C. renaissance

66. The period from 1453 to the end of the 17th century was characterized by the rebirth and proliferation of

Correct : B. ancient knowledge

67. Enlightenment was to a large extent based on

Correct : B. humanitarian principles

68. Enlightenment thinkers opened up new and very significant areas of

Correct : C. inquiry

69. In the period of enlightenment as the organizing principle of knowledge, rationality replaced

Correct : C. religion

70. The period of enlightenment was in

Correct : A. 1650 ce and 1700 ce

71. Which of the following is not correctly matched

Correct : A. herodotus – political science

72. Who is regarded as the ‘Father of History’

Correct : D. herodotus

73. The age of _____ saw a revolution within natural philosophy

Correct : C. enlightenment

74. The history of the social sciences begins in the routes of the ancient _______

Correct : A. philosophy

75. ________ is regarded as the father of Political Science.

Correct : B. aristotle

76. The term sociology was derived from Greek term logos and _____ word socius meaning ‘companion’ or ‘society’

Correct : B. latin

77. _____ is central to the procedures of scientific method

Correct : C. objectivity

78. _____ affect the objectivity of the study

Correct : A. personal bias

79. The word Psychology comes from the ancient Greek psyche which means _____

Correct : C. mind

80. Positivism is advocated by _____

Correct : C. auguste comte

81. ______ is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields

Correct : C. social sciences

82. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as the basis of behaviouralism moment by David Easton

Correct : B. values

83. The branch of philosophy that studies assumptions about the nature of reality and existence is

Correct : B. ontology

84. The philosophical area which deals with the problem of being is called ______

Correct : D. ontology

85. Epistemology is concerned with _____ of knowledge

Correct : D. all of these

86. Rationalism and empiricism represent the philosophy of the ______ era

Correct : D. modern

87. ‘Science of society is possible’ is assumed by which approach

Correct : B. positivist

88. Positivists tend to be skeptical of

Correct : B. religion

89. How did Post Positivism relate to Positivism

Correct : A. its criticized positivism but held on some of its features

90. The concept of Rights, Property, Liberty, Equality and Justice are related to—

Correct : C. democracy

91. The legal theory of Rights believes that—

Correct : A. the rights are created by the state

92. Civil Rights are given to the individuals by—

Correct : A. the state

93. Who first gave the Concept of ‘Distributive Justice’?

Correct : B. aristotle

94. Negative liberty implies that,

Correct : A. freedom should be unlimited

95. The word ‘ Democracy’ means,

Correct : C. power of the people

96. ‘Who Governs’ is a work by

Correct : C. robert .a. dahl

97. Direct democracy was established in

Correct : A. ancient greek city-states

98. Which approach is, according to Robert A Dahl, “an attempt to make the empirical content of Political Science more scientific “

Correct : D. behavioural approach

99. ‘It is better to be vague than irrelevant’. This statement explains the following

Correct : A. post-behaviouralism

100. . Who introduced the concept of natural rights?

Correct : A. john locke