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DISS Week 1 10 grade 11 humms by justine

Social science is the study of ___________.

-society and human behavior

This consists in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the


formulation, testing,

and modification of hypotheses.

-Scientific Method.

The entry of the human person into the world of societies is something that can be
avoided.

-true

Each newly born human being enters a __________ that has been shaped by those born
previously

and is continually reshaped by each new generation. (Perry & Perry, 2003)

-Social word

The purpose of the social sciences

-is to study systematically all aspects of human behavior/condition

What makes social science unique from natural science and the humanities?

-focus on society accompanied with scientific method

Geography is considered to be both a natural science and a social science.

-True

Social Science is not only composed of one science or one subject. Since it
concerns itself with all

aspects of society and human behavior, it is naturally divided into __________, all
of which share an

interest in human behavior.

-Disciplines

Anthropology comes from two Greek words:

-anthropos and logos

Which of the following is NOT a branch of linguistics?

-diction

Which of the following is NOT true about Economics?


-It is a discipline that was only established recently,because our ancestors did
not believe in

the value of private property.

Which of these disciplines is part of the humanities?

-Philosophy

Social science is a unified science consisting of only one discipline.

-False

Which aspect of society does social science concern itself with?

-all aspects of society including human behavior

Which of these individuals is the father of modern linguistics?

-Noam Chomsky

Is sociology the same with the social sciences?

-False

Which discipline does social sciences rely heavily upon when it comes to matters of
methodology?

-Physical science

As John and Erna Perry put it, “The discipline does attempt to study systematically
a sequence of

related events – or a number of such sequences – for the purpose of learning about,
verifying, and

establishing meaningful relationships among them.” (Perry & Perry, 2003)

-False

_____________ is considered the father of geography. He is known as the first


person to actually

use the term.

-Eratosthenes

Science may be briefly defined as a method using a system of rational inquiry


dependent on the

___________.

-empirical testing of facts

Behaviorist approaches tend to focus more on the empirical or outward observation


of the subjects.
-True

The principle of meaning teaches us that human persons interact, and that we do so
through the use

of:

-Symbols

Parsons doctoral dissertation was entitled ____ with his main focus on the work of
Werner Sombart

and Max Weber.

-The Concept of Capitalism in the Recent German Literature

The Natural Sciences are divided into two groups:

-physical and life science

What does the word scarcity mean?

-lack of resources

The Greek word politika means:

-affairs of the cities

What is another term for the working class?

-proletariat

It includes a person’s moral code, the main concern being whether action is good or
bad, right or

wrong. It represents the ideal rather than the real, and strives not for pleasure
but for perfection. The

rewards are feelings of pride and self-love; the punishments are feelings of guilt
and inferiority.”

(Corey, 2009)

-superego

Private property is replaced with ____, and man becomes friend once more to fellow
man. It is in a

communist setting, Marx envisions, that society will flourish.

-common ownership

“The history of linguistics is a branch of intellectual history, for it deals with


the history of ideas –

ideas about language – and directly with language itself.”

-False

This social world was not always understood. But in the last 200 years, disciplines
have originated

with the goal of examining it with the exact same ____ that the sciences use.

-scientific methodology

Which of the following is/are aspects covered by the social sciences?

-specific aspects of human behavior and life

Science may be briefly defined as a method using a system of rational inquiry


dependent on the

_____.

-empirical testing of facts

When Mead mentions the ‘taking the role of the other,’ he implies that through
language, human

persons could interpret the _____ of the individual he is communicating with.

-symbolic nature

How is social science different from social philosophy?

-the inclusion of the scientific method

Thought is based on language. While in a conversation, your mind is imagining or


thinking about the

different points of view or meanings to what the other person is saying to you.

-True

Economics comes from the Greek ta oikonomika meaning “____“ Oikonomika itself comes
from the

Greek word oikos meaning --- or ---).

-science of the household

To which discipline does physics fall under:

-Natural Science

“The most concrete origin, however, can be found in Ancient China with the writings
of Fan Li (also

known as Tao Zhu Gong) who wrote a _____ for businessmen. (Wang, 2012)

-golden laws for businessmen

When one speaks of a _____, it means that it is a philosophical movement that


includes those who

claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the


meaning of a proposition

is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical


ideas are to be

rejected. (McDermid, 2009)

-pragmatic philosophy

The following are disciplines of the humanities except:

-Political Science

Social Philosophy and Social Sciences are one and the same.

-True

In 1895, Freud and his colleague Josef Breuer published:

-Studies in Hysteria

Symbolic interactionism’s key principles can be seen in the work:

-None of the choices

The term “symbolic interactionism” was coined by which of Mead’s students:

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