Deck 1: Science, Humanities, and Language Studies

Question 1

Modern science depends on

A)opinions
B)beliefs
C)facts
D)intuitions

Answer 1

facts

Question 2

Methods that are create and speculative are employed by

A)social science
B)humanities
C)physical science
D)natural science

Answer 2

humanities

Question 3

Humanities emphasis the role of

A)meaning of human conditions
B)purpose of human conditions
C)goals of human conditions
D)all of these

Answer 3

all of these

Question 4

The source of all the sciences and social sciences is

A)philosophy
B)history
C)psychology
D)astrology

Question 5

The classical Greek notion of philosophy was

A)to improve our social world
B)to educate its citizens
C)to demarcate the national and social world
D)to understand the world

Question 6

Literature is primarily a subject of

A)natural sciences
B)social sciences
C)humanities
D)psychology

Question 7

History deals with

A)fancies
B)facts
C)hypotheses of past
D)beliefs

Question 8

Term ideology was coined by

A)louis althusser
B)terry eagleton
C)destutt de tracy
D)frantz fanan

Question 9

David Hume was a

A)german scientists
B)british philosopher
C)french sociologist
D)american educationist

Question 10

Twentieth century literary criticism attempted to keep away from

A)discuss on value
B)discussion on taste
C)discussion on reality
D)discussion on truth

Question 11

Positivism laid stress on use of

A)social science method
B)cultural studies
C)natural sciences
D)spiritual metaphysics

Question 12

Cause hypotheses and explanations are the testing ground of

A)natural sciences
B)social sciences
C)literature
D)philosophy

Question 13

There is relative freedom from subjective biases in study of

A)philosophy
B)literature
C)natural sciences
D)social sciences

Question 14

What is prominent factor in structuring taste?

A)education
B)family status
C)social class
D)personality

Question 15

______ is the belief that human beings possess an innate, natural unchanging identity

A)idealism
B)essentialism
C)constructivism
D)naturalism

Question 16

Theories which understand reality as constructed within culture through language are called _____ theories.

A)constructivist
B)essentialist
C)idealist
D)pragmatist

Question 17

The evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively is called.

A)culture
B)subjectivity
C)identity
D)language

Question 18

_____ is the verbal expression of culture

A)signs
B)language
C)signals
D)symbols

Question 19

Capacity that separates humans from other primates

A)emotions
B)mobility
C)communication
D)language

Question 20

The core idea that man's language moulds his perception of reality belongs to

A)sapir and whorf
B)saussure and choamsky
C)bloomfield and halliday
D)none of the above

Question 21

The study of the cultural system of signs is called

A)linguistics
B)pragmatics
C)symbolism
D)semiotics

Question 22

Hignlish is an example of

A)dialect
B)idiolect
C)ethnolect
D)genderlect

Question 23

Father of modern linguistics

A)saussure
B)bloomfield
C)halliday
D)chomsky

Question 24

The Social, economic and cultural context in which reality is represented and communicates meaning is called

A)institution
B)society
C)dialogue
D)discourse