Social Sciences Quiz

What is the study of all aspects of human life and culture?

• Sociology

• Anthropology

• Psychology

• Demography

Which discipline is the scientific study of language?

• Sociology

• Anthropology

• Linguistics

• Demography

What is the systematic study of governance by the application of empirical and generally scientific methods of analysis?

• Sociology

• Political Science

• Psychology

• Demography

Which discipline is defined as the study of the physical features of the earth, its atmosphere and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these?

• Demography

• Geography

• Anthropology

• Political Science

Who developed the techniques of Descriptive Linguistics and theorized on the ways in which languages shape our perceptions of the world?

• Plato

• Jeanne Jacques Rousseau

• Edward Sapir

• Franz Boas

Which historical epoch corresponds to the orientation period of Linguistics?

• Historical Linguistics 19th century

• Structuralism first half of 20th century

• Non-theoretical studies before the 19th century

• Generative Grammar second half of 20th century

What is the study of the physical features of the earth, its atmosphere and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these?

• Anthropology

• Political Science

• Geography

• Demography

Which discipline encompasses the description of language, the study of their origin, and the analysis of how children acquire knowledge and how people learn languages other than their own?

• Demography

• Linguistics

• Anthropology

• Sociology

What is the scientific study of behavior and the mind?

• Sociology

• Psychology

• Anthropology

• Demography

Which discipline is the scientific study of human social relation or group of life?

• Demography

• Sociology

• Anthropology

• Psychology