Deck 3: Social Science and the Interdisciplinary Study of Society

Question 1

The word 'hybridisation'' may seem to be imported from ___________

A)Sociology
B)Psychology
C)Biology
D)Iconology

Answer 1

Biology

Question 2

Social science was heavily influenced by _______________

A)Theism
B)Methodism
C)Positivism
D)Pietism

Answer 2

Positivism

Question 3

Auguste Comte used the term "science social" taken from the ideas of _____________

A)Charles Fourier
B)Charles Darwin
C)Lesterward
D)Montesquieu

Answer 3

Charles Fourier

Question 4

Among the following _____________ is not a branch of Medical Sociology.

A)Neurosociology
B)Bio sociology
C)Palaeontology
D)Primatolgy

Question 5

Experimental psychology was founded by _______________

A)Sigmund Freud
B)Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
C)Thorndike
D)Pavlov

Question 6

According to_________________ 'Sociology and Anthropology are twin sisters'.

A)Kroeber
B)Malinowski
C)Parsons
D)Wallenstein

Question 7

Social Science History Association was formed in ______________

A)1796
B)1956
C)1976
D)1967

Question 8

________________ combines physical and human geography

A)Ecological geography
B)Environmental geography
C)Historical geography
D)Cultural geography

Question 9

_________________has been regarded as the study of early (primitive) cultures

A)Anthropology
B)History
C)Sociology
D)Political Science

Question 10

Among the following who wrote the book 'First principles'?

A)Herbert Spencer
B)K.Davis
C)Malinowski
D)Kroeber

Question 11

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

A)Herodotus - Political Science
B)Auguste Comte - Sociology
C)Adam Smith- Economics
D)Sigmund Freud - Psychology

Question 12

Who among the following developed an approach in sociology called functionalism

A)Nadel
B)Levi - Strauss
C)Durkheim
D)Pareto

Question 13

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

Question 14

Public Administration is a prominent branch of _____________________

A)Sociology
B)Political Science
C)Economics
D)Anthropology

Question 15

____________________ is regarded as the 'father of history'.

A)Plato
B)Aristotle
C)Auguste Comte
D)Herodotus

Question 16

_______________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

Question 17

According to ________________ Sociology is the study of web of social relationships

A)Mac Iver
B)Harelembos
C)Ogburn
D)Coser

Question 18

The Age of ______________saw a revolution within natural philosophy

A)Revolutions
B)Renaissance
C)Enlightenment
D)Victoria

Question 19

The history of the social sciences begins in the roots of ancient ___________

A)Philosophy
B)Epics
C)Epigraphy
D)Literature

Question 20

The term 'Verstehen Sociology' is associated with ______________

A)Durkheim
B)Weber
C)Comte
D)Simmel

Question 21

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

Question 22

The word _____________is from the Greek for "human being" or "person.

A)Socious
B)Anthropos
C)logos
D)oikos

Question 23

Global positioning systems (GPS) is now widely used in _______________

A)Economics
B)Sociology
C)Geography
D)Anthropology

Question 24

_______________asserted that man is a political animal in his Politics

A)Herodotus
B)Aristotle
C)Plato
D)Descartes