Social Science Overview
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Which academic discipline was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology?

  • Economics
  • Anthropology (correct)
  • Human geography
  • Linguistics
  • What methods do positivist social scientists use for understanding societies?

  • Interpretivist methods
  • Methods resembling those used in the natural sciences (correct)
  • Speculative methods
  • Quantitative methods
  • In what historical period did the history of the social sciences begin?

  • Victorian era in the 19th century
  • Renaissance period in the 14th century
  • Industrial Revolution in the 18th century
  • Age of Enlightenment after 1650 (correct)
  • What do interpretivist or speculative social scientists use for constructing theories?

    <p>Social critique or symbolic interpretation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What characterizes modern academic practice in social research?

    <p>Eclectic use of multiple methodologies</p> Signup and view all the answers

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