5 Questions
Which academic discipline was the original 'science of society' in the 19th century?
Sociology
What do positivist social scientists use as tools for understanding society?
Methods resembling those of the natural sciences
Which academic discipline may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories?
Interpretivist social scientists
In modern academic practice, what do researchers often do in terms of methodologies?
They are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies
Which academic discipline is not mentioned as part of the wide array of disciplines encompassed by social science?
Physics
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