Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences Quiz

What is anthropology?

• The study of rocks

• The study of animals

• The study of humans

• The study of plants

Who is regarded as the Father of Cultural Anthropology?

• Karl Marx

• Lewis Henry Morgan

• Franz Boas

• Edward Burnett Tylor

What is the study of language and its structure called?

• Syntax

• Phonetics

• Morphology

• Semantics

What is the scientific study of human behavior and mental process?

• Sociology

• Psychology

• Economics

• Geography

Who argued that culture is not a by-product of a human group’s physical characteristics?

• Franz Boas

• Lewis Henry Morgan

• Edward Burnett Tylor

• Karl Marx

What is anthropology?

• The study of the past

• The study of the earth’s surface

• The study of language and its structure

• The study of human variation and cultural differences

What is the main focus of economics?

• The study of language and its structure

• The study of the past

• Studying the changes in the natural patterns and processes of Earth’s surface over time

• Analyzing the determinants of national income

What is the study of geography concerned with?

• The study of language and its structure

• The systematic study of politics

• The study of the past

• The study of the earth’s surface and its inhabited portions

Who is considered the Father of History?

• Thucydides

• Herodotus

• Leopold von Ranke

• Ban Gu

What is the main focus of linguistics?

• The study of language and its structure

• Studying the changes in the natural patterns and processes of Earth’s surface over time

• Analyzing the determinants of national income

• The systematic study of politics