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| 1. |
The term ‘Social Sciences’ first appeared in the work of |
| A. | William Thompson |
| B. | J. Schumpeter |
| C. | M. Weber |
| D. | Harry Johnson |
| Answer» A. William Thompson | |
| 2. |
‘Republic’ is the work of |
| A. | Socratese |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Plato |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Plato | |
| 3. |
The book ‘Ethics and Politics’ was written by |
| A. | Socrates |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | William Scott |
| D. | Ralph Linton |
| Answer» B. Aristotle | |
| 4. |
In Renaissance human reason placed above |
| A. | Culture |
| B. | faith |
| C. | Arts |
| D. | Literature |
| Answer» C. Arts | |
| 5. |
The conflict between religious learning and beliefs and rationality learning and beliefs is the basic characteristic of |
| A. | Modern era |
| B. | Educated Society |
| C. | Renaissance |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Renaissance | |
| 6. |
The period from about 1453 to the end of the 17th century was characterized by the rebirth and proliferation of |
| A. | Modern knowledge |
| B. | ancient knowledge |
| C. | Modern thinking |
| D. | ancient thinking |
| Answer» B. ancient knowledge | |
| 7. |
Enlightenment was to a large extent based on |
| A. | profit motive |
| B. | humanitarian principles |
| C. | practical wisdom |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» B. humanitarian principles | |
| 8. |
Enlightenment thinkers opened up new and very significant areas of |
| A. | Observation |
| B. | Field study |
| C. | Inquiry |
| D. | Thinking |
| Answer» C. Inquiry | |
| 9. |
Enlightenment thought laid the ground work for the development of |
| A. | Religious notions |
| B. | speculations |
| C. | Social scientific thought |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» C. Social scientific thought | |
| 10. |
In the period of enlightenment as the organizing principle of knowledge, rationality replaced |
| A. | Culture |
| B. | Civilization |
| C. | Religion |
| D. | Speculation |
| Answer» C. Religion | |
| 11. |
The period of Enlightenment was in |
| A. | 1650 CE and 1700 CE |
| B. | 1500 CE and 1550 CE |
| C. | 1400 CE and 1450 CE |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. 1650 CE and 1700 CE | |
| 12. |
The work ‘Two Treatises of Government’ was written by |
| A. | Rousseau |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Gandhi |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Locke | |
| 13. |
Whose suggestion was that the social order was made by human beings and therefore could be changed by human beings |
| A. | Hobbes |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Laski |
| D. | Gandhi |
| Answer» A. Hobbes | |
| 14. |
According to whom was the universe a machine made up of particles moving according to a mechanical law. |
| A. | R.Park |
| B. | Rousseau |
| C. | Hobbes |
| D. | Aristotle |
| Answer» C. Hobbes | |
| 15. |
The master piece of Hobbes |
| A. | Leviathan |
| B. | The Elements of Law |
| C. | Essay concerning human understanding |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Leviathan | |
| 16. |
’Leviathan’ was published in the year |
| A. | 1640 |
| B. | 1650 |
| C. | 1621 |
| D. | 1651 |
| Answer» D. 1651 | |
| 17. |
Hobbes believed that the very principle of the universe is |
| A. | The movement or motion |
| B. | passion and imagination |
| C. | critical thinking |
| D. | observation |
| Answer» A. The movement or motion | |
| 18. |
The first philosophical work of Hobbes |
| A. | The Elements of Law |
| B. | Leviathan |
| C. | Social Contract |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. The Elements of Law | |
| 19. |
‘The Elements of Law’ was published in the year |
| A. | 1650 |
| B. | 1640 |
| C. | 1630 |
| D. | 1651 |
| Answer» A. 1650 | |
| 20. |
Thomas Hobbes’ interest in philosophy was greatly stimulated by his discovery of the world of |
| A. | Sociology |
| B. | Mathematics |
| C. | Biology |
| D. | Astronomy |
| Answer» B. Mathematics | |
| 21. |
Who tells about Universal law and Natural Law? |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Plato |
| C. | Aristotle |
| D. | John Locke |
| Answer» D. John Locke | |
| 22. |
Locke believed that human beings were originally |
| A. | Isolated independent being |
| B. | Social cooperative being |
| C. | Asocial competitive being |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Social cooperative being | |
| 23. |
‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ is the work of |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Plato |
| D. | Lumberg |
| Answer» A. John Locke | |
| 24. |
The major task of the state is the preservation of the liberty, peace, safety and public good of the people- Who commented so? |
| A. | Hobbes |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Rousseau |
| D. | Moynihan |
| Answer» B. Locke | |
| 25. |
Rousseau believed that refer of society would only be possible if all members shared equally in the construction of |
| A. | Culture and belief |
| B. | Nature and behavior |
| C. | Pattern of life |
| D. | laws for human’s common happiness |
| Answer» D. laws for human’s common happiness | |
| 26. |
Who said that property is the root of all evil which brought about war, conflict, and misery |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Hobbes |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» D. Rousseau | |
| 27. |
Whose belief is that man’s original nature was corrupted by society and that the only way man could become virtuous, moral being was to totally transform society. |
| A. | Rousseau |
| B. | Hobbes |
| C. | John Locke |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» A. Rousseau | |
| 28. |
Rousseau’s focus was on the possibility of |
| A. | Social condition and situation |
| B. | exchanging ideas |
| C. | Life experiences |
| D. | drastic social change |
| Answer» D. drastic social change | |
| 29. |
Rousseau thought that society was formed as a result of |
| A. | human interaction |
| B. | Faith and belief |
| C. | Give and take relationship of human beings |
| D. | a contract among individuals |
| Answer» D. a contract among individuals | |
| 30. |
The scientific approach to the study of human beings seeks to emphasize the need to blend the perspectives of |
| A. | Arts, Mathematics and Science |
| B. | Nature, Culture and Civilization |
| C. | Natural sciences, Social Sciences and humanities |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» C. Natural sciences, Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 31. |
Not only as a method to understand social reality around us, Social Sciences help us to |
| A. | develop insights into the nature of human beings |
| B. | understand the life style of human beings |
| C. | develop insights into human being’s communication |
| D. | find out the development of human beings |
| Answer» A. develop insights into the nature of human beings | |
| 32. |
Who said this-In reality there are no economic, sociological or psychological problems, but only simple problems, and they are complex also |
| A. | Myrdal |
| B. | Skinner |
| C. | Kohler |
| D. | Piaget |
| Answer» A. Myrdal | |
| 33. |
A discipline-specific study of social problem from an angle cannot give a |
| A. | Thorough understanding of the issue |
| B. | perfect picture of the issue |
| C. | correct and total view of the problem |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. correct and total view of the problem | |
| 34. |
” Man lives in a socio- economic and political world and thrives on its varied relationships. It is inconceivable that the study of bare and isolated events on any aspect of man’s life would yield any meaningful result”- Who stated so? |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Karl Mannheim |
| C. | Karl Pearson |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Karl Pearson | |
| 35. |
A recent trend in Social science research is |
| A. | Single disciplinary approach |
| B. | Interdisciplinary approach |
| C. | Direct Observation method |
| D. | Field study |
| Answer» B. Interdisciplinary approach | |
| 36. |
Research can give us sound guideline for the appropriate measure of |
| A. | Education |
| B. | Field work |
| C. | Data collection |
| D. | Reform and Social welfare |
| Answer» D. Reform and Social welfare | |
| 37. |
Research in Social Sciences can unfold and identify the causes of |
| A. | Life success |
| B. | Life failure |
| C. | Social evils and problems |
| D. | Life Style |
| Answer» D. Life Style | |
| 38. |
Systematic research can give us the required data base for planning and |
| A. | implementation of those plans |
| B. | designing developmental schemes and programmes |
| C. | speculation |
| D. | designing life style |
| Answer» B. designing developmental schemes and programmes | |
| 39. |
Research in Social Science areas equip us with |
| A. | greater power of control over the social phenomena |
| B. | greater power of control over the emotions of humans |
| C. | Control over the natural resources |
| D. | Control over the supernatural powers |
| Answer» A. greater power of control over the social phenomena | |
| 40. |
A systematized body of knowledge will properly helps us to implement |
| A. | better social institutions |
| B. | better educational institutions |
| C. | better social planning for the development of entire human society |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. better social planning for the development of entire human society | |
| 41. |
Diagnosis of problems and their analysis lead to |
| A. | appropriate remedial actions |
| B. | find out real life situations |
| C. | control over life expense |
| D. | control over human feelings |
| Answer» A. appropriate remedial actions | |
| 42. |
The main function of research is |
| A. | Discovery facts |
| B. | interpretation social mysteries |
| C. | Understand social reality |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» D. all the above | |
| 43. |
Research strengthens our |
| A. | capacity to live |
| B. | desire for truth and knowledge |
| C. | desire for community living |
| D. | capacity to understand things |
| Answer» B. desire for truth and knowledge | |
| 44. |
The major purpose of Social Science research is |
| A. | reliable and valid study of human behavior |
| B. | understanding social life |
| C. | deep knowledge on matters around us |
| D. | Reliable and valid study of social life and human behavior |
| Answer» D. Reliable and valid study of social life and human behavior | |
| 45. |
Which would facilitate reliable and valid study of human behavior and social life |
| A. | New scientific tools |
| B. | Concepts |
| C. | Theories |
| D. | all the above |
| Answer» D. all the above | |
| 46. |
Social Sciences try to understand human behavior and its interaction with the environment and |
| A. | Society |
| B. | Community |
| C. | Social institutions |
| D. | Social phenomena |
| Answer» C. Social institutions | |
| 47. |
To clarify the doubtful and correct the misconceived facts of social life we depend up on the study of |
| A. | Social sciences |
| B. | Natural science |
| C. | Physical science |
| D. | Mathematics |
| Answer» A. Social sciences | |
| 48. |
Which of the following seeks to find explanations to unexplained social phenomena? |
| A. | Statistics |
| B. | Social Sciences |
| C. | Social Surveys |
| D. | Extra reading |
| Answer» B. Social Sciences | |
| 49. |
Verification of knowledge of human behavior and social life is happening through |
| A. | Social research |
| B. | Observation. |
| C. | Knowledge seeking |
| D. | Thorough reading |
| Answer» A. Social research | |
| 50. |
Now the natural world is studied by the methods of |
| A. | Science |
| B. | Action |
| C. | Belief |
| D. | Interpretation |
| Answer» A. Science | |
| 51. |
The word ‘hybridisation’’ may seem to be imported from ___________ |
| A. | Sociology |
| B. | Psychology |
| C. | Biology |
| D. | Iconology |
| Answer» C. Biology | |
| 52. |
Social science was heavily influenced by _______________ |
| A. | Theism |
| B. | Methodism |
| C. | Positivism |
| D. | Pietism |
| Answer» C. Positivism | |
| 53. |
Auguste Comte used the term "science social" taken from the ideas of _____________ |
| A. | Charles Fourier |
| B. | Charles Darwin |
| C. | Lesterward |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» A. Charles Fourier | |
| 54. |
Among the following _____________ is not a branch of Medical Sociology. |
| A. | Neurosociology |
| B. | Bio sociology |
| C. | Palaeontology |
| D. | Primatolgy |
| Answer» C. Palaeontology | |
| 55. |
Experimental psychology was founded by _______________ |
| A. | Sigmund Freud |
| B. | Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt |
| C. | Thorndike |
| D. | Pavlov |
| Answer» B. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt | |
| 56. |
According to_________________ ‘Sociology and Anthropology are twin sisters’. |
| A. | Kroeber |
| B. | Malinowski |
| C. | Parsons |
| D. | Wallenstein |
| Answer» A. Kroeber | |
| 57. |
Social Science History Association was formed in ______________ |
| A. | 1796 |
| B. | 1956 |
| C. | 1976 |
| D. | 1967 |
| Answer» C. 1976 | |
| 58. |
________________ combines physical and human geography |
| A. | Ecological geography |
| B. | Environmental geography |
| C. | Historical geography |
| D. | Cultural geography |
| Answer» B. Environmental geography | |
| 59. |
_________________has been regarded as the study of early (primitive) cultures |
| A. | Anthropology |
| B. | History |
| C. | Sociology |
| D. | Political Science |
| Answer» A. Anthropology | |
| 60. |
Among the following who wrote the book ‘First principles’? |
| A. | Herbert Spencer |
| B. | K.Davis |
| C. | Malinowski |
| D. | Kroeber |
| Answer» A. Herbert Spencer | |
| 61. |
Which of the following is not correctly matched? |
| A. | Herodotus – Political Science |
| B. | Auguste Comte – Sociology |
| C. | Adam Smith- Economics |
| D. | Sigmund Freud – Psychology |
| Answer» A. Herodotus – Political Science | |
| 62. |
Who among the following developed an approach in sociology called functionalism |
| A. | Nadel |
| B. | Levi – Strauss |
| C. | Durkheim |
| D. | Pareto |
| Answer» C. Durkheim | |
| 63. |
Identify the right sequence of the following thinkers who contributed to functionalism in the chronological order |
| A. | Parsons, Merton, Durkheim, Spencer |
| B. | Merton, Durkheim, Spencer, Parson |
| C. | Parsons, Spencer, Durkheim, Merton |
| D. | Spencer, Durkheim, Parsons, Merton |
| Answer» D. Spencer, Durkheim, Parsons, Merton | |
| 64. |
Public Administration is a prominent branch of _____________________ |
| A. | Sociology |
| B. | Political Science |
| C. | Economics |
| D. | Anthropology |
| Answer» B. Political Science | |
| 65. |
____________________ is regarded as the ‘father of history’. |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Auguste Comte |
| D. | Herodotus |
| Answer» D. Herodotus | |
| 66. |
_______________is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences. |
| A. | Human Sciences |
| B. | Social Sciences |
| C. | Earth Sciences |
| D. | Natural Sciences |
| Answer» B. Social Sciences | |
| 67. |
According to ________________ Sociology is the study of web of social relationships |
| A. | Mac Iver |
| B. | Harelembos |
| C. | Ogburn |
| D. | Coser |
| Answer» A. Mac Iver | |
| 68. |
The Age of ______________saw a revolution within natural philosophy |
| A. | Revolutions |
| B. | Renaissance |
| C. | Enlightenment |
| D. | Victoria |
| Answer» C. Enlightenment | |
| 69. |
The history of the social sciences begins in the roots of ancient ___________ |
| A. | Philosophy |
| B. | Epics |
| C. | Epigraphy |
| D. | Literature |
| Answer» A. Philosophy | |
| 70. |
The term ‘Verstehen Sociology’ is associated with ______________ |
| A. | Durkheim |
| B. | Weber |
| C. | Comte |
| D. | Simmel |
| Answer» B. Weber | |
| 71. |
At the turn of the 21st century, the expanding domain of economics in the social sciences has been described as _____________ |
| A. | Economic determinism |
| B. | Economic centrism |
| C. | Economic imperialism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Economic imperialism | |
| 72. |
The word _____________is from the Greek for "human being" or "person. |
| A. | Socious |
| B. | Anthropos |
| C. | logos |
| D. | oikos |
| Answer» B. Anthropos | |
| 73. |
In the branch of Economics_______________the unit of analysis is the individual agent |
| A. | Micro Economics |
| B. | Pure Economics |
| C. | Macro Economics |
| D. | Applied Economics |
| Answer» A. Micro Economics | |
| 74. |
Global positioning systems (GPS) is now widely used in _______________ |
| A. | Economics |
| B. | Sociology |
| C. | Geography |
| D. | Anthropology |
| Answer» C. Geography | |
| 75. |
_______________asserted that man is a political animal in his Politics |
| A. | Herodotus |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Plato |
| D. | Descartes |
| Answer» B. Aristotle | |
| 76. |
_____________ differs from biology and neuroscience in that it is primarily concerned with the interaction of mental processes and behaviour |
| A. | Philosophy |
| B. | Psychology |
| C. | Social Anthropology |
| D. | Sociology |
| Answer» B. Psychology | |
| 77. |
The Study of Administration is a seminal work authored by_________ |
| A. | Rousseau |
| B. | Woodrow Wilson |
| C. | Wilhelm Wundt |
| D. | Hobbes |
| Answer» C. Wilhelm Wundt | |
| 78. |
______________is the systematic study of society and human social action |
| A. | Sociology |
| B. | Anthropology |
| C. | Political Science |
| D. | Economics |
| Answer» A. Sociology | |
| 79. |
The Course in Positive Philosophy was written by _______________ |
| A. | Emile Durkheim |
| B. | Auguste Comte |
| C. | Max Weber |
| D. | Georg Simmel |
| Answer» B. Auguste Comte | |
| 80. |
_______________set up the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895 |
| A. | Emile Durkheim |
| B. | Auguste Comte |
| C. | Max Weber |
| D. | Georg Simmel |
| Answer» A. Emile Durkheim | |
| 81. |
The term Social Construction of Reality is associated with ___________ |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Dahrendorf |
| C. | C.H.Cooley |
| D. | Peter L. Berger |
| Answer» D. Peter L. Berger | |
| 82. |
Chicago school developed _________________ |
| A. | Symbolic Interactionism |
| B. | Positivism |
| C. | Functionalism |
| D. | Structuralism |
| Answer» A. Symbolic Interactionism | |
| 83. |
The term sociology was derived from Greek term logos and _______word socius meaning "companion", or society |
| A. | French |
| B. | Latin |
| C. | German |
| D. | Ausrtic |
| Answer» B. Latin | |
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