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1 | | Which of the following beliefs is consistent with a post-positivist's epistemological position? |
| | A) | Knowledge can best be gained through a search for regularities in the social world |
| | B) | Regularities and causal relationships should be studied through a complete separation between the "knower" and the "known" |
| | C) | The separation between the knower and the known can be guaranteed through the scientific method |
| | D) | All of the above |
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2 | | Which of the following conditions are necessary to infer causality between "interaction" and "liking" in a post-positivist theory? |
| | A) | Interaction must come before liking |
| | B) | Interaction and liking must be related to each other |
| | C) | Other alternatives explanations for liking must be eliminated |
| | D) | All of the above |
| | E) | a and b |
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3 | | The branch of positivism that assumes that the generation of knowledge must pass through the theological/fictitious stage, the metaphysical/abstract stage, and the scientific/positive state is known as: |
| | A) | Logical positivism |
| | B) | Classical positivism |
| | C) | Post-positivism |
| | D) | Metaphysical positivism |
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4 | | According to __________, scientific statements and metaphysical statements can be differentiated through the verifiability principle. |
| | A) | Vienna Circle scholars |
| | B) | Comtean scholars |
| | C) | Post-positivist scholars |
| | D) | Kuhnian scholars |
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5 | | A realist believes: |
| | A) | in a hard and solid reality of physical and social objects. |
| | B) | that the reality of social entities exists only in the names and labels we provide for them. |
| | C) | that emphasis should be on the ways in which social meanings are created through historical and contemporary interaction. |
| | D) | none of the above. |
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6 | | A nominalist proposes that: |
| | A) | there is in a hard and solid reality of physical and social objects. |
| | B) | the reality of social entities exists only in the names and labels we provide for them. |
| | C) | emphasis should be on the ways in which social meanings are created through historical and contemporary interaction. |
| | D) | none of the above. |
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7 | | A social constructionist emphasizes: |
| | A) | the hard and solid reality of physical and social objects. |
| | B) | that the reality of social entities exists only in the names and labels we provide for them. |
| | C) | the ways in which social meanings are created through historical and contemporary interaction. |
| | D) | none of the above. |
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8 | | Robert Dubin theories must include: |
| | A) | units, hypotheses, structures, and propositions. |
| | B) | laws of interaction, units, hypotheses, and structures. |
| | C) | empirical indicators, propositions, infrastructures, and hypotheses. |
| | D) | units, laws of interaction, propositions, and hypotheses. |
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9 | | The three functions of theory that are most typically identified by post-positivist theorists are the interlinked functions of: |
| | A) | prediction, control, and interpretation. |
| | B) | explanation, control, and prediction. |
| | C) | control, interpretation, and prediction. |
| | D) | interpretation, explanation, and prediction. |
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10 | | Kuhn advocates the __________ growth of theory in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. |
| | A) | evolutionary |
| | B) | incremental |
| | C) | stepwise |
| | D) | revolutionary |
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