Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Soft-Applied Disciplines emphasize processes and protocols. These are functional and
utilitarian in nature. They are concerned with the enhancement of professional practice.
Often their status is uncertain. They also appear to be dominated by intellectual fashions.
They use a mix of qualitative and quantitative data for their growth. Case studies form an
important tool in such disciplines. Law and Education are examples of soft-applied
disciplines. Education depends upon other soft disciplines like Psychology, Sociology, and
Philosophy. Publication rates in these disciplines are low.
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Check your Progress-2
Below are given incomplete sentences. Complete them using appropriate answers.
1.
Professionals classified the disciplines on the basis of ______________
a. Content
b. Nature
c. Properties
d. Similarities
2.
Pure discipline is a discipline that involves study for______________
a)
Purely Knowledge sake
b)
Purely Application sake
c)
Knowledge and Application sake
d)
Neither Knowledge nor Application sake
3.
The sole purpose of Applied disciplinesis ______________
a)
To add to the body of knowledge
b)
To apply existing knowledge to real world situations
c)
Both a & b
d)
To draw knowledge from one or more disciplines
4.
Nature of knowledge in Hard-Pure disciplines ______________
a)
cumulative and concerned with universal phenomena
b)
application of theories
c)
concerned with particular happenings
d)
utilitarian in nature
5.
Hard discipline tends to use______________
a)
Qualitative data.
b)
Quantitative data
c)
Both qualitative and quantitative data
d)
Neither Quantitative nor Qualitative
6.
Soft disciplines use______________
a)
Qualitative data.
b)
Quantitative data
c)
Both qualitative and quantitative data
d)
Neither Quantitative nor Qualitative
7.
Nature of knowledge in Hard-Applied Disciplines______________
a)
cumulative and concerned with universal phenomena
b)
application of theories
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c)
concerned with particular happenings
d)
utilitarian in nature
8.
Nature of knowledge in Soft-Pure Disciplines______________
a)
cumulative and concerned with universal phenomena
b)
on application of theories
c)
concerned with particular happenings
d)
utilitarian in nature
1.
Nature of knowledge in Soft-Applied Disciplines______________
a)
cumulative and concerned with universal phenomena
b)
on application of theories
c)
concerned with particular happenings
d)
utilitarian in nature