Social Science Quiz

Social science is one of the branches of science devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

Social science encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science, and political science.

Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the natural sciences as tools for understanding societies, and so define science in its stricter modern sense.

<p>The history of the social sciences began in the Age of Enlightenment after 1650, which saw a revolution within natural philosophy, changing the basic framework by which individuals understood what was scientific.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interpretivist or speculative social scientists may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assam is in the easternmost projection of the Indian Plate, where it thrusts underneath the Eurasian Plate creating a subduction zone. It possesses a special geomorphic environment, with large plains and dissected hills of the South Indian Plateau system abutting the Himalayas to the north, north-east and east.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Due to the northeasterly movement of the Indian plate, the sedimentary layers of an ancient geosyncline called the Tethys (in between Indian and Eurasian Plates) were pushed upward to form the Himalayas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is estimated that the height of the Himalayas is increasing by 4 cm each year.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Geomorphic studies conclude that the Brahmaputra is an antecedent river, older than the Himalayas, which has entrenched itself since they started rising.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The height of the surrounding regions is still increasing, forming steep gorges in Arunachal. The flow includes water, land, air, and other resources too.</p> Signup and view all the answers