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Which academic discipline was the original 'science of society' in the 19th century?

  • Political science
  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Sociology (correct)
  • What do positivist social scientists use as tools for understanding society?

  • Methods based on cultural analysis
  • Methods based on social critique
  • Methods resembling those of the natural sciences (correct)
  • Methods based on symbolic interpretation
  • Which academic discipline may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

  • Political scientists
  • Interpretivist social scientists (correct)
  • Anthropologists
  • Economists
  • In modern academic practice, what do researchers often do in terms of methodologies?

    <p>They are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which academic discipline is not mentioned as part of the wide array of disciplines encompassed by social science?

    <p>Physics</p> Signup and view all the answers

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