Political Science · Political Theory
Given below are two statements, choose the correct option.
- Statement I: Behaviouralism was an attack upon Normative Political theory
- Statement II: Pure science based on facts and observations was the core feature of behaviouralism
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct ✓ Correct
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct — Both statements are correct, so the answer is that Statement I and Statement II are both true.
Explanation
★Both statements are correct, so the answer is that Statement I and Statement II are both true.
★Behaviouralism was indeed an attack on normative, value laden political theory.
★It dismissed older theory as speculative and unscientific.
★Its goal was to make the study of politics a genuine, fact based political science.
★It rested on facts, observation, measurement and the search for regularities.
★It demanded verification, quantification and value neutrality in research.
★So both the critical and the positive sides of behaviouralism are correctly stated.
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