Exam 10: The Science Wars and Ideology in Criminology

Most ____________ visionaries deny an innate human nature.

Plato most closely aligns with which of the following visions?

Which of the following is not one of the heritable components of temperament?

___________ visionaries say: "this is how the world is," and _________ visionaries say: "this is how the world should be."

Liberals are most closely associated with _________ visionaries, while conservatives are most closely associated with _________ visionaries.

People in the human sciences who believe that it is both possible and desirable to adapt the objectives and methods of the biological sciences to study human behavior operate from a philosophical position called:

All social scientists agree that biological sciences should be used to study human behavior, specifically criminal behavior.

Which philosopher believed that the ultimate reality consisted of eternal "forms" that existed in a transcendental realm?

According to the text, ideology is one of the biggest barriers we have to obtaining knowledge.

Plato is considered a(n)_______thinker while Aristotle was more of a(n)_________ thinker.

According to the text, the unconstrained vision dominates the social sciences.

Research on American criminologists conducted by Walsh and Ellis (2004) and Cooper, Walsh, and Ellis (2007) found that conservatives tended to favor __________ theories such as biosocial and rational choice.

Ideology:

According to the text, genes account for about ____ percent of our political ideologies.

Contrary to Plato, _______ thinkers maintain that it is our reasoning that leads us astray more than the sense of data experiences.