Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Schools Division of the City of Ilagan
Gayong – Gayong Sur Integrated School
Senior High School

Name: __________________________________ Yr/Sec.: ________ Date: ______Score: ___________

PERIODICAL EXAMINATION

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS

1st Semester – 1st Quarter
S.Y 2019 - 2020

Test I. Multiple Choice

Directions: Read the questions very carefully and encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct
answer.

1. ________________ is the holistic “science of man”, a science of the totality of human existence.
(a) Anthropology (c) Archaeology
(b) Sociology (d) Etymology

2. _______________ is the study of relationships among people.

(a) Anthropology (c) Archaeology
(b) Sociology (d) Etymology

3. It deals with the systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behavior.
(a) Public Policy (c) International Relation
(b) Political Theory (d) Political Science

4. _____________ are conceptions or ideas people have about what is true in the environment around them
like what is life, how to value it, and how one’s belief on the value of life relate with his or her interaction
with others and the world.
(a) Beliefs (c) Language
(b) Values (d) Norms

5. _____________ It is generally defined as an organized group or groups of interdependent people who

share common interest.
(a) Beliefs (c) Language
(b) Society (d) Norms

6. What was the main idea of Politics.

(a) “theory of human behavior” (c) “theory of practice of government”
(b) “theory of social changes” (d) “theory of gender equality”

7. It defined in democratic principles, and it is a status granted to individuals to properly run the
government and implement the rule of the law in the society.
(a) Beliefs (c) Language
(b) Values (d) Power
8. What socially constructed characteristics of being male or female?
(a) Nationality (c) Ethnicity
(b) Gender (d) Religion

9. What category of person who have more or less the same socioeconomic privileges?
(a) Culture (c) Socioeconomic Status
(b) Norms (d) Nationality

10. What socioeconomic status consists of elite families?

(a) Upper Class (c) Lower Class
(b) Middle Class (d) Traditional Upper Class

11. What ultimately pushed to upper strata of society amassing wealth, allowing them to enjoy the lifestyle
of the traditional upper class.
(a) Inheritance (c) Birthright
(b) Hard work and Industry (d) Subsistence lifestyle
12. What socioeconomic status composed of small business and industry operators mostly owners and
managers, professionals, office workers and farm owners with income sufficient enough to provide a
comfortable and decent living.
(a) Middle Class (c) Lower Class
(b) Upper Class (d) Elite families

13. What socioeconomic status composed of farm employees, skilled and unskilled artisans, service
workers, and people who may be unemployed or underemployed or those who belong to indigent
families.
(a) Middle Class (c) Lower Class
(b) Upper Class (d) Elite families

14. What groups composed of people who collectively identify of people who collectively identify themselves
as distinct and unique because of their cultural features, such as language, ancestry, and traditions?
(a) Ethnic Group (c) Politicians
(b) Anthropologist (d) Elite People

15. What ways that people depend upon one another can be seen in different social features except for
one.
(a) Economics (c) Communication
(b) Defense System (d) Norms

16. What concrete example of political institution and it exercises power especially in relation to
governance and decision.
(a) Power (c) Government
(b) Politicians (d) Laws

17. Norms that includes the use of appropriate words and gestures that convey politeness and courtesy.
(a) Norms of Decency (c) Conformity
(b) Norms of Conventionality (d) Deviance

18. How does discovery cause social change?

(a) Because of the spread of culture traits (c) When people reorganized existing
from one group to another. elements of the world they had not
(b) Because of earthquakes, floods and noticed before
droughts (d) Population Movement

19. What are the factors that causes culture change except for one?
(a) Physical environment (c) Population
(b) War (d) Conformity

20. Refers to variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization, of sub-groups within a
society, or of the entire society itself.
(a) Cultural Change (c) Social Change
(b) Enculturation (d) Conformity

21. It refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a culture’s content and
structure.
(a) Social Change (c) Enculturation
(b) Cultural Change (d) Idealism

22. Being ignored by others who are in one’s presence.

(a) Social control (c) Social stratification
(b) Social ostracism (d) Social change

23. Takes place when one culture spreads to another through learning.
(a) Enculturation (c) Integration
(b) Socialization (d) Association

24. What is the study of human beings and their ancestors?

(a) Psychology (c) Philosophy
(b) Anthropologist (d) None of the above

25. They try to recover information about human cultures – often from the past- by studying materials
samples, skeletal remains and settlements.
(a) Political Science (c) Linguistic
(b) Sociology (d) Biological Anthropologist
 26. In the Philippine setting, for instance, political power is divided into two?
(a) National Power and Local Power (c) Central power and Local Power
(b) Legislative and Judiciary (d) Executive

27. What political power is centered on local government in the provinces?

(a) Local Power (c) Executive Power
(b) Central Power (d) Central Power

28. What political power focused on the national government based in Manila?
(a) Out-Group (c) Central power
(b) Local Power (d) Secondary Group
29. What science of society and social behavior, which is viewed as an aggregate of individuals?
(a) Biological Anthropology (c) Political Analyst
(b) Sociology (d) Linguistic

30. Refers to a group of people sharing a common culture.

(a) Society (c) Culture
(b) Social Change (d) Language

31. Is characterized by a territorially localized population.

(a) Social Change (c) Linguistic
(b) Human Society (d) Society
32. It is the complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts
everything a person learns and shares as a member of the society.
(a) Society (c) Culture
(b) Social Change (d) Language

33. According to John Honigmann an anthropologist, has pointed out, there are three components that go
together that make up culture except for one.
(a) ideas (c) artifacts
(b) activities (d) ethnicity

34. It’s a family tree that is only tracked through the men or women of the family, but not both.
(a) Matrilineal descent (c) Patrilineal descent
(b) Bilateral descent (d) Unilineal descent

35. A system that traces descent through the women of the clan.
(a) Matrilineal descent (c) Patrilineal descent
(b) Bilateral descent (d) Unilineal descent

36. A family unit that results from the union of two parents, both with a child or children from previous
relationships.
(a) Nuclear family (c) Extended family
(b) Blended family (d) Single parent family type

37. The ___________________ family consist of one parent raising one or more children on his own.
(a) Nuclear family (c) Extended family
(b) Blended family (d) Single parent family type

38. family which extends beyond the nuclear family to include grandparents and other relatives.
(a) Nuclear family (c) Extended family
(b) Blended family (d) Single parent family type

Prepared by:

Ar Anne V. Ugot
SHS T – II

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