DISS QUIZ

“According to Albert Einstein, light has no mass. Thus, it also has no energy. However, how can sunlight warm the earth without energy?” Which of the following academic disciplines can answer this question?

• Humanities

• Natural Sciences

• Social Physics

• Social Sciences

When a researcher tries to learn about human society and understand the things that are occurring in it by conducting keen observations, critical analyses, and interpretations of social facts found from the individuals living in a society, what element of Social Sciences does the researcher focus?

• Empirical Analysis

• Nature

• Society

• Superstition

Social Sciences began to become slightly scientific during the __________.

What is the study of humankind

Economics is related to ____________

• Humanities

• Natural science

• Social science

If the focus of the Natural Sciences is to explore all natural phenomena that occurred, or are currently happening, in the world, what is the focus of the Humanities?

• To study the different aspects of human society.

• To explore the laws of nature that rules our world.

• To discover the effects of social phenomena on people’s live.

• To understand the numerous human conditions and the ways wherein the human experiences are treated and documented.

The scientific method is less commonly used in what academic discipline?

• Humanities

• Natural Science

• Social Physics

• Social Science

Which of the following is NOT a definition of the term “society”?

• It is the friendly association or companionship with other people

• It is a large group of individuals whose relationships are impersonal and detached

• It is the product of purposeful activities of individuals who came together for the attainment of a common goal

• It is an organized group of people whose members work together or regularly meet and have a shared way of living, interest, and territory

In the elements of Social Sciences, the empirical analysis places the entire body of knowledge in a systematic mode of inquiry about human societies through the scientific method while the society puts the whole area of study on __________.

Several intellectuals considered the use of philosophical approach in examining human societies as an unpleasant continuing impact of the past that is needed to be opposed by using critical reason, enlightenment, and, if necessary, revolution. Which of these intellectuals founded Positivism to study our societies?

• Auguste Comte

• Charles Darwin

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx