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1.

Who is considered as the product of Scottish enlightenment?

A. herder
B. vico
C. weber
D. david hume
Answer» E.
2.

The concept of idea of the ideal eternal history was propagated by------

A. socrates
B. vico
C. weber
D. febvre
Answer» C. weber
3.

Who among the below was a strong critique of neoliberalism

A. marx
B. herder
C. bourdieu
D. karl popper
Answer» D. karl popper
4.

The book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory was written by---------

A. gopal guru and sundar sarukkai
B. aditya mukherjee
C. sumit sarkar
D. bipan chandra
Answer» B. aditya mukherjee
5.

Who wrote the book Outline of a Theory of Practice?

A. vico,
B. herder
C. hume
D. bourdieu
Answer» E.
6.

Who used the terms “Archaeology of knowledge” and Genealogy of power?

A. e.p. thomson
B. durkheim
C. karl popper
D. foucault
Answer» E.
7.

Theory of Habitus was the contribution of which social scientist?

A. foucault
B. marx
C. weber
D. bourdieu
Answer» E.
8.

Who wrote the book “An Outline of the Theory of Practice”?

A. pierre bourdieu
B. may brodbeck
C. durkheim
D. max weber
Answer» B. may brodbeck
9.

Who wrote the book "Methodological Individualisms: Definition and Reduction,"?

A. durkheim
B. may brodbeck
C. karl popper
D. f.a hayek
Answer» C. karl popper
10.

--------- was the major advocate of the idea of holism.

A. jermy bentham
B. max weber
C. durkheim
D. vico
Answer» D. vico
11.

Who propogated the Marriage Circle Theory?

A. morton klass
B. sumit sarkar
C. bipan chandra
D. k.m. panicker
Answer» B. sumit sarkar
12.

Who among the below is not associated with the history of slavery?

A. john blassingame
B. eugene genovese
C. leslie howard owens
D. foucault
Answer» E.
13.

The book what is Gender History? Is written by whom?

A. sonya rose
B. john kelly
C. leonore davidoff
D. joan w. scott
Answer» B. john kelly
14.

Who made the statement ‘gender is a critical means by which power is expressed or legitimised’?

A. leonore davidoff.
B. john kelly
C. joan w. scott
D. sonya rose
Answer» D. sonya rose
15.

The book “The Emeregence of South Asian Caste System” was written by who?32. The journal ‘Gender and History’ was founded in Britain by ------

A. eric hobsbawm
B. e.p. thomson
C. marc bloch
D. leonore davidoff
Answer» B. e.p. thomson
16.

"Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" is written by whom?

A. joan w. scott
B. john kelly
C. sonya.o.rose
D. judit butler
Answer» B. john kelly
17.

Who asked the question, "Did Women have a Renaissance?

A. gayatri spivak
B. john kelly
C. sonya.o.rose
D. romila thapar
Answer» C. sonya.o.rose
18.

The journal named ‘Gender and History’ was published in the year --------

A. 1988
B. 1987
C. 1989
D. 1990
Answer» D. 1990
19.

The book The Peasants of Northern France during the French Revolution published in the year

A. 1924
B. 1925
C. 1926
D. 1930
Answer» B. 1925
20.

Which historian stated that ‘history seen from below and not from above’?

A. durkheim
B. foucault
C. lucien febvre
D. marc bloch
Answer» D. marc bloch
21.

The book “The Making of the English Working Class” was written by--------

A. hobsbawm
B. e.p. thomson
C. cristopher hill
D. foucault
Answer» C. cristopher hill
22.

Which historian argues that “argues that memory developd through three stages, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern” ?

A. vico
B. ranke
C. pierre nora
D. marc bloch
Answer» D. marc bloch
23.

Who among the below is not associated with the history of mentalities?22. -------------- studied about the mentalities of social deviants and nonconformists

A. michael foucault
B. henri hauser
C. fernand braudel
D. philippe ariès
Answer» B. henri hauser
24.

History of mentalities (histoire des mentalités) is associated with the ------------ intellectual history.

A. german
B. russian
C. french
D. british
Answer» D. british
25.

Who authored the book, “Civilisation and Capitalism”?

A. fernand braudel
B. loucien febvre
C. karl popper
D. marx
Answer» B. loucien febvre
26.

The concept of longue durée is related to the work of ……….

A. marx
B. hegel
C. braudel
D. dutkheim
Answer» D. dutkheim
27.

The journal Annales: économies, sociétés, civilisations first issue came out in which year?

A. 1929
B. 1928
C. 1927
D. 1925
Answer» B. 1928
28.

The methodology of “ideal type” is associated with --------------

A. max weber
B. ranke
C. febvre
D. durkheim
Answer» B. ranke
29.

Who is the author of the “Critique of the Gotha Programme”?

A. engels
B. marx
C. weber
D. hegel
Answer» C. weber
30.

The book “The Emeregence of South Asian Caste System” was written by who? 32. The journal ‘Gender and History’ was founded in Britain by ------

A. eric hobsbawm
B. e.p. thomson
C. marc bloch
D. leonore davidoff
Answer» B. e.p. thomson
31.

The book The Peasants of Northern France during the French Revolution published in the year

A. 1924
B. 1925
C. 1926
D. 1930
Answer» B. 1925
32.

---------wrote the book, The World Turned Upside Down.

A. foucault
B. christopher hiil
C. georges lefebvre
D. derrida
Answer» C. georges lefebvre
33.

The journal named ‘Gender and History’ was published in the year --------

A. 1988
B. 1987
C. 1989
D. 1990
Answer» D. 1990
34.

The book “The Making of the English Working Class” was written by--------

A. hobsbawm
B. e.p. thomson
C. cristopher hill
D. foucault
Answer» C. cristopher hill
35.

Which historian argues that “argues that memory developd through three stages, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern” ?

A. vico
B. ranke
C. pierre nora
D. marc bloch
Answer» D. marc bloch
36.

Which historian stated that ‘history seen from below and not from above’?

A. durkheim
B. foucault
C. lucien febvre
D. marc bloch
Answer» D. marc bloch
37.

------------ is the author of the book Les Lieux de Memoire.

A. herder
B. philippe ariès
C. norbert elias
D. lucien febvre
Answer» E.
38.

Who among the below is not associated with the history of mentalities? 22. -------------- studied about the mentalities of social deviants and nonconformists

A. michael foucault
B. henri hauser
C. fernand braudel
D. philippe ariès
Answer» B. henri hauser
39.

The Mediterranean is the book written by ------------

A. marc block
B. febvre
C. henri hauser
D. braudel
Answer» E.
40.

History of mentalities (histoire des mentalités) is associated with the ------------ intellectual history.

A. german
B. russian
C. french
D. british
Answer» D. british
41.

Who authored the book, “Civilisation and Capitalism”?

A. fernand braudel
B. loucien febvre
C. karl popper
D. marx
Answer» B. loucien febvre
42.

The concept of longue durée is related to the work of ……….

A. marx
B. hegel
C. braudel
D. dutkheim
Answer» D. dutkheim
43.

Who among the below is not associated with the secon stage of annales school?

A. third
B. second
C. fourth
D. third
Answer» E.
44.

The journal Annales: économies, sociétés, civilisations first issue came out in which year?

A. 1929
B. 1928
C. 1927
D. 1925
Answer» B. 1928
45.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie to the -------- phase of annales school.

A. peter burke
B. hobsbawm
C. e.p. thomson
D. romila thaper
Answer» C. e.p. thomson
46.

Historian --------------- has divided annales school into different stages

A. fernand braudel
B. robert mandrou
C. georges duby,
D. henri hauser
Answer» B. robert mandrou
47.

Annales School emerged in which country?

A. germaby
B. france
C. britain
D. italy
Answer» C. britain
48.

----------------was one of the pioneers of the Critical Theory

A. habermas
B. vico
C. hume
D. herder
Answer» B. vico
49.

The Annales school of history is a historiographial trend emerged in -----------century.

A. 18th
B. 19th
C. 20th
D. 21st
Answer» D. 21st
50.

Who is the author of the “Critique of the Gotha Programme”?

A. engels
B. marx
C. weber
D. hegel
Answer» C. weber