Because contemporary sociology exhibits no consensus on the outcomes of experiments or procedures, a low degree of control over raw materials, and no clear hierarchy regarding the relative importance of a varied and diverse collection of problems, contemporary sociology exhibits (in Richard Whitley's terminology)

MCQs on the origins and development of modern science and how that is distinguished from pseudo-science; the importance of deduction and induction and their separate methodologies; the process of the scientific method; scientific change and scientific revolutions, particularly that of Thomas Kuhn; and selected philosophical problems in the basic sciences, such as absolute space, biological classification, the modular mind, and recent discoveries of neuroscience.