Social Sciences are pejoratively known as_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Social sciences comprise the application of scientific method to______________?

   A. laboratory experiments
   B. field experiment
   C. human aspect of the world
   D. None of these

2. Which concept has the work of Robert Putnam helped to popularize in the social sciences ?

   A. cultural capital
   B. economic capital
   C. social capital
   D. symbolic capital

3. The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?

   A. new social movement theory
   B. collective behavior theory
   C. social strain theory
   D. resource mobilization theory

4. A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ?

   A. slavery
   B. Social class
   C. caste
   D. estates

5. Functionalists view social control as_______________?

   A. operating to favor powerful groups at the expense of others
   B. an indispensable functional requirement for social survival
   C. a source of social chaos
   D. both b and c

6. An attempt to understand the social world by situating social events in their corresponding environment is called_____________?

   A. Social work
   B. Sociology
   C. Society
   D. None of these

7. Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called______________?

   A. social statics
   B. social dynamics
   C. social absolutes
   D. constructed reality

8. The statement that “the social relations of work find expression in the social relation of school” reflects ?

   A. the correspondence principle
   B. credentialism
   C. the hidden curriculum
   D. structural dyspepsia

9. Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?

   A. the resource mobilization approach
   B. the deprivation approaches
   C. the capitalist collapse approach
   D. none of the above

10. Tonnies divided the social structure into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschafts The tighter and cohesive social entity was the salient feature of___________?

    A. Gemeinschaft
    B. Gesellschafts
    C. Both of them
    D. None of these