Methodology and Perspectives of Social Sciences | Set 3
1. Which of the following is a complex household?
Correct : A. one parental family and part of a parental family
2. Research in Social Sciences can unfold and identify the causes of
Correct : D. life style
3. Systematic research can give us the required data base for planning and
Correct : B. designing developmental schemes and programmes
4. A systematized body of knowledge will properly helps us to implement
Correct : C. better social planning for the development of entire human society
5. Which of the following is a complex household?
Correct : A. two or more parental families
6. Who said that property is the root of all evil which brought about war,
conflict, and misery
Correct : D. rousseau
7. Which of the following is a simple household?
Correct : D. a man and his wife
8. Enlightenment was to a large extent based on
Correct : B. humanitarian principles
9. The _________ approach was influenced by Marxist tradition
Correct : A. dialectical approach
10. Who tells about Universal law and Natural Law?
Correct : D. john locke
11. The ______ family is defined as consisting of a man, his wife and unmarried
children.
Correct : C. parental
12. Which of the following is a complex household?
Correct : A. part of one parental family and part of another parental family
13. Which would facilitate reliable and valid study of human behavior and
social life
Correct : D. all the above
14. To clarify the doubtful and correct the misconceived facts of social life we
depend up on the study of
Correct : A. social sciences
15. _____ approach concentrates on change as a transition from simple to
complex
Correct : D. universal
16. The concept of dominant caste was introduced by________.
Correct : B. m.n.srinivas
17. Verification of knowledge of human behavior and social life is happening
through
Correct : A. social research
18. The conflict between religious learning and beliefs and rationality learning
and beliefs is the basic characteristic of
Correct : C. renaissance
19. Research strengthens our
Correct : B. desire for truth and knowledge
20. A discipline-specific study of social problem from an angle cannot give a
Correct : C. correct and total view of the problem
21. Whose suggestion was that the social order was made by human beings and
therefore could be changed by human beings
Correct : A. hobbes
22. The book ‘Ethics and Politics’ was written by
Correct : B. aristotle
23. The main function of research is
Correct : D. all the above
24. Who said this-In reality there are no economic, sociological or
psychological problems, but only simple problems, and they are complex also
Correct : A. myrdal
25. Locke believed that human beings were originally
Correct : B. social cooperative being
26. The work ‘Two Treatises of Government’ was written by
Correct : B. locke
27. Who among the following used dialectical approach to explain the
emergence of nationalism in India
Correct : A. a.r.desai
28. The scientific approach to the study of human beings seeks to emphasize the
need to blend the perspectives of
Correct : C. natural sciences, social sciences and humanities
29. The concept of purity and pollution acts as the basis for _______
Correct : A. caste system
30. The term ‘Social Sciences’ first appeared in the work of
Correct : A. william thompson
31. According to_________________ ‘Sociology and Anthropology are twin
sisters’.
Correct : A. kroeber
32. Who said that an encounter between Indian and western traditions created
cultural contradictions which generated a dialectical process of conflict out of
which arose a synthesis which was the new middle class.
Correct : C. d.p.mukherjee
33. . ________________ combines physical and human geography
Correct : B. environmental geography
34. .Among the following _______________ is not a trend seen in present day
academics
Correct : B. fragmentation
35. Among the following who wrote the book ‘First principles’?
Correct : A. herbert spencer
36. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Correct : A. herodotus – political science
37. Who among the following developed an approach in sociology called
functionalism
Correct : C. durkheim
38. Social science was heavily influenced by _______________
Correct : C. positivism
39. A caste is considered as dominant if it possesses which of the following
determinant features?
Correct : D. numerical strength
40. The word psychology comes from the ancient Greek psyche which means
__________
Correct : C. mind
41. Identify the right sequence of the following thinkers who contributed to
functionalism
in the chronological order
Correct : D. spencer, durkheim, parsons, merton
42. Public Administration is a prominent branch of _____________________
Correct : B. political science
43. . ____________________ is regarded as the ‘father of history’.
Correct : D. herodotus
44. The term Social Construction of Reality is associated with ___________
Correct : D. peter l. berger
45. The word ‘hybridisation’’ may seem to be imported from ___________
Correct : C. biology
46. _______________is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a
plurality of fields
outside of the natural sciences.
Correct : B. social sciences
47. A.M.Shah studied the households in a village called ______ in Gujarat and
substantiated his concept of household.
Correct : A. radhvanaj
48. According to ________________ Sociology is the study of web of social
relationships
Correct : A. mac iver
49. Who among the following developed an approach in sociology called functionalism
Correct : C. durkheim
50. The Age of ______________saw a revolution within natural philosophy
Correct : C. enlightenment
51. Auguste Comte used the term “science social” taken from the ideas
of_____________
Correct : A. charles fourier
52. Death, birth and other family events are found to be associated with _____
pollution.
Correct : B. ) temporary
53. The history of the social sciences begins in the roots of ancient
___________
Correct : A. philosophy
54. The term ‘Verstehen Sociology’ is associated with ______________
Correct : B. weber
55. At the turn of the 21st century, the expanding domain of economics in the
social sciences
has been described as _____________
Correct : C. economic imperialism
56. Among the following _____________ is not a branch of Medical Sociology.
Correct : C. palaeontology
57. The word _____________is from the Greek for “human being” or “person.
Correct : B. anthropos
58. The major purpose of Social Science research is
Correct : D. reliable and valid study of social life and human behavior
59. In the branch of Economics_______________the unit of analysis is the
individual agent
Correct : A. micro economics
60. Diagnosis of problems and their analysis lead to
Correct : A. appropriate remedial actions
61. Research strengthens our
Correct : B. desire for truth and knowledge
62. Pollution which cannot be removed by any purificatory acts is called
_______ pollution.
Correct : A. permanent
63. Global positioning systems (GPS) is now widely used in _______________
Correct : C. geography
64. Medium households consist of ____________ members
Correct : B. 4 to 6
65. _______________asserted that man is a political animal in his Politics
Correct : A. herodotus
66. A.M.Shah maintained that a simple household had ______ possible
compositions
Correct : C. 6
67. _____________ differs from biology and neuroscience in that it is primarily
concerned with the interaction of mental processes and behaviour
Correct : B. psychology
68. Chicago school developed _________________
Correct : A. symbolic interactionism
69. Who is the author of ‘ The Household dimensions of Family in India’?
Correct : C. a.m.shah
70. The Study of Administration is a seminal work authored by_________
Correct : B. woodrow wilson
71. The term sociology was derived from Greek term logos and _______word
socius
meaning “companion”, or society
Correct : B. latin
72. ________ households are defined as those which consisted of whole or part
of the parental family
Correct : A. simple
73. Experimental psychology was founded by _______________
Correct : B. wilhelm maximilian wundt
74. Small households consist of ____________ members
Correct : A. 3 or less
75. Social Science History Association was formed in ______________
Correct : C. 1976
76. ______________is the systematic study of society and human social action
Correct : A. sociology
77. _______________set up the first European department of sociology at the
University of Bordeaux in 1895
Correct : A. emile durkheim
78. _________________has been regarded as the study of early (primitive)
cultures
Correct : A. anthropology
79. Large households consist of ____________ members
Correct : C. 7 to 9
80. Rules of sociological method was written by
Correct : C. dukheime
81. Very large households consist of ____________ members
Correct : D. 10 or more
82. ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ is the work of
Correct : A. john locke
83. ‘Social science could not be value free’ Who told this?
Correct : C. alfred schutz
84. The term objectivity is always associated with .............. method
Correct : C. scientific method
85. Which branch of sociology rejects objectivity
Correct : B. ethnomethodology
86. Based on the size, Shah classified households into
Correct : D. 4
87. ______ is defined as “the irruption of the biological into social life”.
Correct : B. purity
88. ‘Logic of social enquiry’ was written by
Correct : C. gibson
89. ‘Positivism’ is advocated by ....................
Correct : C. auguste comte
90. .............. defined the subject matter of sociology as Social Facts.
Correct : B. durkheim
91. Max Webber was born in ....................... country
Correct : B. germany
92. The interpretation of society through sex is advocated by ........
Correct : C. sigmund freud
93. Based on the composition, Shah classified households into ______
Correct : B. 2
94. Emilie Durkheim was born in
Correct : C. 1858
95. Who argued that value of freedom in social research is a myth
Correct : C. feminists
96. ....................... effect the objectivity of the study
Correct : A. personal bias
97. Researchers personal values are called.................
Correct : C. subjectivity
98. A set of moral principles and values are called............‘
Correct : D. ethics
99. Auguste Comte proposed a shift from social philosophy to ...................
Correct : C. social science
100. The concept ‘value freedom’ is the contribution to social research by
.....................