Professionalization and Specialization of the Sciences and Social Sciences Led

question 17

Multiple Choice

Professionalization and specialization of the sciences and social sciences led to all of the following except

• A)the fragmentation and compartmentalization of knowledge.
• B)significant advances in several disciplines.
• C)greater interaction and cooperation across disciplines.
• D)a decline in the role of the amateur.
• E)the inclusion of religious studies in the sciences.

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Definitions:

Method Names

Identifiers used in programming to name a method, which often describe the action the method performs and follow naming conventions.

InstanceOf Operator

The instanceOf operator in Java is used to check whether an object is an instance of a specific class or interface, returning true or false.

Downcasting

The process of converting a reference of a parent class to a reference of a subclass in object-oriented programming.

Polymorphism

A concept in object-oriented programming that allows methods to do different things based on the object that it is acting upon, supporting methods with the same name but different implementations.