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

Anthropology

Political Science

Economics

Sociology (correct)

What do positivist social scientists use as tools for understanding society?

Methods based on social critique

Methods resembling those of the natural sciences (correct)

Methods based on empirically falsifiable theories

Methods based on symbolic interpretation

Which academic discipline may use social critique or symbolic interpretation instead of constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

Economists

Interpretivist social scientists (correct)

Anthropologists

Political Scientists

In modern academic practice, what do researchers often do in terms of methodologies?

They are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies Signup and view all the answers

Which academic discipline is not mentioned as one of the branches of social science?

Physics Signup and view all the answers

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

Sociology Signup and view all the answers

Which method do positivist social scientists use for understanding society?

Methods resembling those of the natural sciences Signup and view all the answers

Which academic discipline may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

Interpretivist social scientists Signup and view all the answers

What do modern academic researchers often do in their practice?

They are eclectic, using multiple methodologies Signup and view all the answers

Which academic discipline is NOT mentioned as part of the wide array of social science disciplines?

Physics Signup and view all the answers

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

What do positivist social scientists use as tools for understanding society?

Which academic discipline may use social critique or symbolic interpretation instead of constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

In modern academic practice, what do researchers often do in terms of methodologies?

Which academic discipline is not mentioned as one of the branches of social science?

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

Which method do positivist social scientists use for understanding society?

Which academic discipline may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

What do modern academic researchers often do in their practice?

Which academic discipline is NOT mentioned as part of the wide array of social science disciplines?

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