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

  • Anthropology (correct)
  • Linguistics
  • Economics
  • Archaeology

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

  • Symbolic interpretation
  • Social critique
  • Empirically falsifiable theories
  • Methods resembling those of the natural sciences (correct)

In addition to sociology, social science now encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, EXCEPT:

  • Political science
  • Human geography
  • Management science (correct)
  • Communication science

What do interpretivist social scientists use, rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories?

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

How do modern academic researchers often approach their research?

<p>Eclectic, using multiple methodologies (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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