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Which approach tries to exhaust the idiosyncratic causes of one particular event?Read the answer and worked solution →Which research ethics principle relies on informed consent?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the principle of justice, how should research benefits be shared?Read the answer and worked solution →Under beneficence, research subjects should be protected from what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosophy of science is linked with the origin of social research?Read the answer and worked solution →Social sciences came forth from which kind of philosophy?Read the answer and worked solution →In which century did social sciences first show in Diderot's encyclopedia?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two revolutions are named as influences on the social sciences?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the goal of anthropology?Read the answer and worked solution →Positivist social scientists often use methods resembling which other field?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one type of random sampling method?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can social science research sometimes produce false results?Read the answer and worked solution →Authority is commonly understood as which kind of power?Read the answer and worked solution →Which term names the ability to reach an authorized goal by compliance or obedience?Read the answer and worked solution →Apart from the power to decide, what does authority also require?Read the answer and worked solution →Max Weber's 1919 essay divided legitimate authority into how many types?Read the answer and worked solution →For Max Weber, what does domination (authority) mean?Read the answer and worked solution →What does authority depend on, unlike power that uses force or violence?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is authority never beyond questioning, per Andreas Dorschel?Read the answer and worked solution →How does sociology define religious authority?Read the answer and worked solution →How did new media affect religious authority, according to sociology?Read the answer and worked solution →Kautilya's Arthashastra is best described as a treatise on what?Read the answer and worked solution →In which language is the Arthashastra written?Read the answer and worked solution →How many books is the Arthashastra divided into?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school held that government was the only necessary knowledge?Read the answer and worked solution →Without governance, what happens to the weak?Read the answer and worked solution →According to the Arthashastra, what is the best kind of king?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Arthashastra, a just punishment should be proportional to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosophy says the strong dominate the weak when there is disorder?Read the answer and worked solution →Matsya Nyaya is often compared to which familiar phrase?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which approach tries to exhaust the idiosyncratic causes of one particular event?

  1. Idiographic approach
  2. Nomothetic approach
  3. Statistical approach
  4. Positivist approach
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Correct answer: A. Idiographic approach

The idiographic approach seeks all the particular causes of a single condition or event, which is the opposite of looking for general factors.

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Which research ethics principle relies on informed consent?

  1. Justice in benefits
  2. Beneficence to society
  3. Profit for sponsors
  4. Respect for persons
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Correct answer: D. Respect for persons

Respect for persons treats people as autonomous agents, and informed consent is the main way this principle is put into practice.

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Under the principle of justice, how should research benefits be shared?

  1. In secret to few
  2. To sponsors and funders
  3. To researchers alone
  4. Fairly among people
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Correct answer: D. Fairly among people

The principle of justice requires that the benefits of research are distributed fairly.

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