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Which academic discipline was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology?

  • Archaeology (correct)
  • Linguistics
  • Anthropology
  • Human geography
  • What methods do positivist social scientists use for understanding societies?

  • Empirically falsifiable theories (correct)
  • Speculative research
  • Symbolic interpretation
  • Social critique
  • What saw a revolution in natural philosophy and changed the basic framework by which individuals understood what was scientific?

  • Industrial Revolution
  • Age of Enlightenment (correct)
  • Renaissance
  • Victorian Era
  • What do interpretivist or speculative social scientists use instead of constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

    <p>Symbolic interpretation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do modern academic researchers often do in their practice?

    <p>Combine both quantitative and qualitative research</p> Signup and view all the answers

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