The Authors of the Textbook Take the Position That

question 8

Multiple Choice

The authors of the textbook take the position that

• A) social research is fundamentally scientific.
• B) the general scientific method may be applied to some social science topics but not to others.
• C) the social sciences should model themselves after the natural sciences in terms of the structure of scientific theory but not in terms of the scientific "process."
• D) the social sciences are less scientific than the natural sciences because they cannot be as objective.

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