Match the LIST-I with LIST-II LIST-I (Disciplines) LIST-II (Theorists) A.…

Concept

An academic discipline is conventionally identified with the thinker who founded it or whose work supplied its central organising framework. A discipline-to-theorist matching item is therefore solved by recalling each named theorist’s principal field of original work — the field they are canonically credited with — and never by an incidental interest or a later career move.

Application

1. Biology → Charles Darwin. Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859 and established evolution by natural selection, which remains the organising theory of modern biology.

2. Sociology → Auguste Comte. Comte coined the word “sociology” and set out positivism as its method, and is for that reason called the founder of the discipline.

3. Linguistics → Noam Chomsky. Chomsky’s generative grammar and his theory of universal grammar reshaped modern linguistics from the 1950s onwards.

4. Economics → Harold J. Laski. Laski is described as an English political theorist and economist; after earlier teaching posts at McGill and Harvard he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1920 until his death in 1950.

Cross-check

Three of the four pairings — Darwin, Comte and Chomsky — are unambiguous and independently verifiable, so the fourth theorist can also be fixed by elimination: Harold J. Laski takes the one discipline left over, Economics. Direct recall and elimination give the same assignment, which is the check that the mapping is internally consistent.

A nuance worth noting: Laski’s best-known writing (A Grammar of Politics, 1925) is in political theory rather than in economics proper, so his placement against Economics rests on the one-to-one elimination above, supported by the broader political-economy reading of his work at the London School of Economics — institutional affiliation alone would not settle it.

Result: Biology–Charles Darwin, Sociology–Auguste Comte, Economics–Harold J. Laski, Linguistics–Noam Chomsky, i.e. A–IV, B–I, C–II, D–III.