Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Spencer claimed psychological traits were fixed, and thus resistant to change.
2. As a positivist, Spencer was certain most sociologists could remain objective and ensure their emotions did not affect their scientific judgements.
3. Spencer adopts a unilinear view of social evolution where there is only, and always movement in a single direction.
4. There are incongruences between Spencer’s social realism and his methodological individualism that is more compatible with a nominalist definition of society.
5. Spencer viewed society as an organized, cooperative of people.
1. False
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
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