Economics MCQs

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In an open or class society_________________?
A. Status is always achieved
B. Status is always ascribed
C. Status is both achieved and ascribed
D. Status has no importance
Human beings are born into a social world that is_______________?
A. Not of their own making
B. Newly created in each generation
C. The result of cultural development over previous generation
D. Totally beyond their control
Scientific conclusions are_________________?
A. Relative to time and place of study and subject to revision
B. Absolute truths for all times
C. Universally accepted
D. Personal opinions of important scholars
The social sciences have_____________?
A. More control over data than physics
B. Complete objectivity
C. Problems with studying people in laboratories
D. Been accepted as equally valid as the physical sciences
During the Enlightenment of the 18th century_______________?
A. Scholars emphasized the supernatural
B. Scholars denied the possibility of a scientific study of humans
C. A number of scholars believed human social life could be studied scientifically
D. None of the above
Anthropology is restricted to the study of_______________?
A. Primitive people only
B. Prehistoric people only
C. Modern peoples only
D. None of the above