10 Questions
True or false: Social science is solely focused on the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
True
True or false: The term 'social science' was originally used to refer only to the field of sociology.
True
True or false: Social science now encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science, and political science.
True
True or false: Positivist social scientists use methods similar to those of the natural sciences to understand society, while interpretivist social scientists rely more on social critique and symbolic interpretation.
True
True or false: In modern academic practice, researchers in social science often use a single methodology for their studies.
False
True or false: Agriculture includes only crop production and not livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry.
False
True or false: Agriculture played a significant role in the development of sedentary human civilization.
True
True or false: Humans started planting grains at least 105,000 years ago.
False
True or false: Plants were cultivated independently in only a few regions of the world.
False
True or false: Small farms produce more than half of the world's food.
False
Test your knowledge of social science and its various disciplines with this quiz! From sociology to anthropology, archaeology to economics, see how well you know the different branches of social science.
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