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Methodology and Perspectives of Social Sciences | Set 6

1. In 1649 …………………became the protector of England.

Correct : A. Oliver Cromwell

2. The Absolutism of the Stuart Monarchy started with……………, the first Stuart king.

Correct : A. James I

3. James I came to power in England in ………………

Correct : C. 1603

4. James I was followed by his son Charles I in ………………

Correct : B. 1625

5. In order to restrict the personal rule of the King……………, the Parliament drew up the Petition of Rights in 1628 and forced Charles to accept it .

Correct : A. Charles I

6. The ………………supporters were known as Cavaliers.

Correct : A. Kings

7. The ……………….supporters were known as the Round Heads.

Correct : A. Parliament

8. In 1649 ……………was executed by the Parliament, monarchy was abolished and England was declared a Republic under the government called the Common Wealth.

Correct : A. Charles I

9. Monarchy in England was restored in …………… with Charles II.

Correct : B. 1660

10. George Sorel was a ………….philosopher and theorist of revolutionary Syndicalism.

Correct : B. French

11. ‘Reflections on violence’ was the book of …………………

Correct : B. George Sorel

12. …………….published his ‘Famous and Infamous book’ to justify the militancy and to give syndicalism an ideology.

Correct : B. George Sorel

13. Whose discovery that “Poor Laws” applied to income distribution embroiled him in political change and the then Nascent Fascist movement?

Correct : B. Vilfredo Paretos

14. Karl Popper described ……………….as the ‘theoretician of totalitarianism’.

Correct : A. Pareto

15. Auguste Comte, the French philosopher is now regarded as the founder of the discipline - …………….

Correct : B. Sociology

16. ……………..is characterizing as the first philosopher of science.

Correct : B. Comte

17. ……………..developed the positive philosophy.

Correct : B. Comte

18. Marx Weber was a proponent of ………………..

Correct : A. anti- positivism

19. ‘The Metropolis and Mental life’ is the work of ……………….

Correct : C. George Simmel

20. Vico, the ………………philosopher historian and the author of the famous work, “The New Sciences” tried to establish history on a theoretical as well as on a critical basis.

Correct : C. Italian

21. Who is credited with the ‘Cyclical theory in history’?

Correct : C. Vico

22. ‘Ideas for the philosophy of history of mankind’ was the work of ……………

Correct : C. Herder

23. Though the term ‘philosophy of history’ was coined by Voltaire, it was academically elaborated and established by ………………

Correct : C. Hegel

24. G.W. Hegel of ……………is considered as one of the greatest thinkers of the modern world.

Correct : C. Germany

25. According to …………….‘all history is the history of thought’.

Correct : A. Hegel

26. ……………claimed that he firmly stood for objectivity in historical writing.

Correct : B. Ranke

27. ……………, the Scottish philosopher and pioneer of political economy wrote a book ‘Wealth of Nation ‘

Correct : C. Adam Smith

28. Who book ‘Principles of Political Economy and Taxation’?

Correct : A. David Ricardo

29. ………………articulated what came to be known as the ‘Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns’, one of the most famous laws of economics.

Correct : A. David Ricardo

30. ……………….’s most popular book was the “Principles of Economics”.

Correct : D. Alfred Marshall

31. ‘General Theory of Employment’ was the work of ……………….

Correct : A. J.M Keynes

32. …………….wrote “the history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom, the history of Great men who have worked here ‘.

Correct : D. Thomas Carlyle

33. It was with the introduction of ……………by Comte in the 19th century that objectivity became the goal in the studies of social sciences.

Correct : A. Positivism

34. …………..is a method of acquiring knowledge by reasoning solely based on facts of reality and in accordance with the laws of logic.

Correct : C. Objectivity

35. …………is a system in which one belongs to one’s fathers’ lineage.

Correct : A. Patriliny

36. ……………is known as festival of lights.

Correct : B. Diwali