Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET July 2018 Political Science
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Assertion (A): The theories of development of the 1950s like behaviouralism could never develop a universally accepted paradigm because they were locally dated.
Reason (R): They originated during the Cold War period and were consequently biased.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — The assertion is true: the 1950s development and behavioural theories never produced a universally accepted paradigm because they were tied to a particular time and place.
Explanation
★The assertion is true: the 1950s development and behavioural theories never produced a universally accepted paradigm because they were tied to a particular time and place.
★Built mainly on Western, especially American, experience, they did not travel well to third world contexts, so they remained locally dated.
★The reason is also true: these theories grew up in the Cold War and carried its biases, often funded and framed to favour American models.
★Because their Cold War origins are exactly what made them partial and unable to become universal, the reason correctly explains the assertion.
★Bernard Crick similarly criticised the dominance of the behavioural approach in American political science.
★So both statements are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
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