Methodology and Perspective of Social Science Multiple Choice Questions
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. Socrates
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