Match correctly the items of Column I with the items of Column II

	Column I		Column II
(A)	Ontology	(i)	Ideographic
(B)	Epistemology	(ii)	Realism
(C)	Methodology	(iii)	Survey
(D)	Method	(iv)	Positivism

Choose the correct option from those given below: 

Ontology:

• Ontology is the philosophical study of being.
• It is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
• The word realism is related to ontology because realism means the attitude or practise of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it.

Epistemology:

• Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion. 
• Positivism is related to epistemology as it means genuine knowledge, it should be based on observation and advanced by experiment.
• In the social sciences, positivism is associated with three assumptions.
• First, that knowledge should be founded on experience alone.
• Secondly, the belief that the methods of natural sciences are directly applicable to the social world and on the basis of its laws about social phenomena can be established.
• Thirdly the principle that normative statements do not have the status of knowledge. 

Methodology:

• The methodology is a system or method used in a particular area or field of study. 
• The ideographic approach often uses qualitative methodologies in its study of a small number of individuals rather than making generalizations out of information collected from a large quantitative database. 

Method​:

• Survey methods study the in-depth sampling of individual units from a population and analyzing data collection techniques on that sample and making decisions on the basis of that survey study.

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