5 Questions
Which academic discipline was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology?
Anthropology
What methods do positivist social scientists use for understanding societies?
Methods resembling those used in the natural sciences
In what era did the history of the social sciences begin?
Age of Enlightenment
What do interpretivist or speculative social scientists use for understanding societies?
Social critique or symbolic interpretation
What characterizes modern academic practice in social research?
Researchers are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies
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