Social Science and Pedagogy MCQ — 147 Practice Questions with Answers

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Woodrow Wilson's 1887 essay on administration argued that administration should be studied systematically as a distinct field. He is therefore called the father of Public Administration because he stressed the need for its separate study. Hence option D is correct.

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The elastic rebound theory of earthquakes is credited to Henry Fielding Reid after his study of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The theory explains earthquakes through the sudden release of stored elastic stress. Therefore, option D is correct.

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Choice is central in economics because human wants exceed the resources available to satisfy them. Scarcity forces people and societies to choose how limited resources should be used. Therefore option B gives the correct reason.

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Freedom of will is linked with voluntary action: the agent must be able to act, must act with awareness or purpose, and must have alternatives so that a real choice is possible. The conduct of justice is not an essential condition of willing itself. Thus statements 1, 2 and 4 make option A correct.

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Deontological ethics gives central importance to duty and moral rules rather than consequences or pleasure. Kantian ethics especially holds that an action has moral worth when duty is done for its own sake. Therefore option C is correct.