Karl Popper - Political Science Coaching Centre

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Karl Popper

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1. Karl Popper considered Rousseau to be a precursor of: (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER III)

(A) Environmentalism

(B) Totalitarianism

(C) Conservatism

(D) Anarchism

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2. Of whom of the following is Karl Popper a critic and Ronald B. Levinson a supporter of? (GUJARAT SET 2018)

(A) Plato

(B) Aristotle

(C) Niccolo Machiavelli

(D) Thomas Hobbes

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3. Who called Plato as ‘the first enemy of an open society’? (KERALA SET JULY 2023)

A) Karl Popper

B) William Ebenstein

C) Thomas Carlyle

D) Edmund Burke

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4. The concept of falsifiability is associated primarily with (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2021)

A. Thomas Kuhn

B. Imre Lakatos

C. Karl Popper

D. Alan Sokal

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5. Who distinguished science from non-science based on falsification? (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2023)

A. Thomas Kuhn

B. Karl Popper

C. Hans Georg Gadamer

D. Isaiah Berlin

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6. Who developed the theory of falsification? (Himachal Pradesh SET 2017)

(A) Karl Popper

(B) David Easton

(C) Dante Germino

(D) Robert Dahl

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7. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(A) Karl Popper- The Poverty of Historicism

(B) Herbert Marcuse- One Dimensional Man

(C) Ralph Miliband- The Real World of Democracy

(D) Theda Skocpol- Bringing the State Back In

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8. Who among the following thinkers defines freedom as 'non interference and considers the aim of public policy to mitigate avoidable suffering of people rather than promote happiness'? (Rajasthan SET 2020)

(1) J.S. Mill

(2) Karl Popper

(3) Henry Sidgwick

(4) Fredrich Hayek

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9. Liberal theory of incremental change is associated with? (JMI M.A. 2021-2022)

A) John Locke

B) Thomas Kuhn

C) Karl Popper

D) Thomas Hobbes

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10. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

1. A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III

2. A - IV, B - III, C-II, D - I

3. A - III, B - II, C-IV, D- I

4. A - II, B - III, C-I, D - IV

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11. Who is the author of the book The Open Society and Its Enemies? (PUMDET 2024)

(A) John Stuart Mill

(B) Karl Popper

(C) Adam Smith

(D) Alexis de Tocqueville

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12. Who among the following is not a proponent of the 'End of Ideology' theory? (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

(A) Daniel Bell

(B) Raymond Aron

(C) Karl Popper

(D) S. M. Lipset

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13. Who criticised Marxism as ‘reinforced dogmatism’? (KERALA SET 2018 FEBRUARY)

A) Gramsci

B) Karl Popper

C) Hansen

D) Nietzche

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14. The concept of piecemeal social engineering is propounded by (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

(A) Berlin

(B) Hayek

(C) Rawls

(D) Popper

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15. Who one of the following regarded Plato as an enemy of open society? (BHU MA 2014)

(1) Friedman

(2) Rawls

(3) Popper

(4) Nojic

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16. Who among the following has dubbed Marxism as a totalitarian doctrine? (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Karl Popper

B. Isaiah Berlin

C. Hannah Arendt

D. Antonio Gramsci

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. B and C only

3. C and D only

4. A and C only

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17. Karl Popper attacked the historicism of: (NET November 2021 Shift II)

1. Plato and Aristotle

2. Plato and Hegel

3. Plato and Machiavelli

4. Machiavelli and Marx

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18. Arrange the following political philosophers in the chronological order: (NET August 2024 Shift I)

(A) Karl Popper

(B) John Rawls

(C) B. Macpherson

(D) Robert Dahl

(E) Herbert Marcuse

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)

(2) (C), (E), (A), (D), (B)

(3) (E), (C), (A), (D), (B)

(4) (D), (B), (A), (C), (E)

(5) Non of this

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