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1		Which of the following beliefs is consistent with a post-positivist's epistemological position?
			A)	Knowledge can best be gained through a search for regularities in the social world
			B)	Regularities and causal relationships should be studied through a complete separation between the "knower" and the "known"
			C)	The separation between the knower and the known can be guaranteed through the scientific method
			D)	All of the above
2		Which of the following conditions are necessary to infer causality between "interaction" and "liking" in a post-positivist theory?
			A)	Interaction must come before liking
			B)	Interaction and liking must be related to each other
			C)	Other alternatives explanations for liking must be eliminated
			D)	All of the above
			E)	a and b
3		The branch of positivism that assumes that the generation of knowledge must pass through the theological/fictitious stage, the metaphysical/abstract stage, and the scientific/positive state is known as:
			A)	Logical positivism
			B)	Classical positivism
			C)	Post-positivism
			D)	Metaphysical positivism
4		According to __________, scientific statements and metaphysical statements can be differentiated through the verifiability principle.
			A)	Vienna Circle scholars
			B)	Comtean scholars
			C)	Post-positivist scholars
			D)	Kuhnian scholars
5		A realist believes:
			A)	in a hard and solid reality of physical and social objects.
			B)	that the reality of social entities exists only in the names and labels we provide for them.
			C)	that emphasis should be on the ways in which social meanings are created through historical and contemporary interaction.
			D)	none of the above.
6		A nominalist proposes that:
			A)	there is in a hard and solid reality of physical and social objects.
			B)	the reality of social entities exists only in the names and labels we provide for them.
			C)	emphasis should be on the ways in which social meanings are created through historical and contemporary interaction.
			D)	none of the above.
7		A social constructionist emphasizes:
			A)	the hard and solid reality of physical and social objects.
			B)	that the reality of social entities exists only in the names and labels we provide for them.
			C)	the ways in which social meanings are created through historical and contemporary interaction.
			D)	none of the above.
8		Robert Dubin theories must include:
			A)	units, hypotheses, structures, and propositions.
			B)	laws of interaction, units, hypotheses, and structures.
			C)	empirical indicators, propositions, infrastructures, and hypotheses.
			D)	units, laws of interaction, propositions, and hypotheses.
9		The three functions of theory that are most typically identified by post-positivist theorists are the interlinked functions of:
			A)	prediction, control, and interpretation.
			B)	explanation, control, and prediction.
			C)	control, interpretation, and prediction.
			D)	interpretation, explanation, and prediction.
10		Kuhn advocates the __________ growth of theory in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
			A)	evolutionary
			B)	incremental
			C)	stepwise
			D)	revolutionary