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DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It consists of the discipline that enable us to comprehend the complexity of social phenomenon-be historical , social, cultural , psychological , linguistics, economics, or political.

a)

Natural Science

b)

Social Science

c)

Physical Science

2.

A social scientist who studies natural and constructed features of Earth's surface.

a)

Historian

b)

Economist

c)

Geographer

d)

Political Scientist

3.

Which of the

following are three (3) ways that anthropologists study culture?

a)

An anthropologist putting all the culture traits together to understand a culture

b)

changing thought patterns to thoughts

c)

living with people in cultures, reading accounts of other anthropologists' findings and studying artifacts of past cultures

d)

heredity and environment

4.

What is the entire collection of everything that has ever happened before the present time is?

a)

The past

b)

Pre-history

c)

History

d)

The future

5.

It is the study that deals with the way people make a living and how their society produces and gives them what they need?

a)

History

b)

Political Science

c)

Anthropology

d)

Economics

6.

Which of the following best describe economics?

a)

Multiple families would live together in the same house

b)

The EDSA PEOPLE POWER

c)

Merchants sell/barter with cows and other goods

d)

China has many plateaus and two main rivers along which are many settlements

7.

Which of the following best describe sociology?

a)

Those of Indian descent tend to have brown skin, straight black hair and for the most part brown eyes

b)

The execution of Dr. Jose Rizal

c)

Merchants sell/barter with cows and other goods

d)

Multiple families would live together in the same house

8.

It is the study of social behaviors & societies.

a)

Sociology

b)

Economics

c)

Psychology

d)

Anthropology

9.

What is microeconomics?

a)

The area of economics that deals with the behavior and decision making by small units

b)

The area of economics that deals with the behavior and decision of the whole world

c)

The branch of economics that deals with the economy as a whole

d)

The branch of economics that deals with the monetary value

10.

What is macroeconomics?

a)

The branch of economics that deals with the monetary value

b)

The area of economics that deals with behavior and decision making by small units

c)

The branch of economics that deals with the economy as a whole

d)

The are of economics that deals with the behavior and decision making of your personal life

11.

What is geography?

a)

The study of the Earth's atmosphere and physical surface, including how humans affect those things, and how humans themselves are affected by them.

b)

The study of the Earth's physical surface, including how humans affect those things, and how humans themselves are affected by them.

c)

The study of the Earth's atmosphere and physical surface, not including how humans impact them

d)

The study of the Earth's physical surface, not including how humans impact it.

12.

Why is studying the social side of geography valuable today?

a)

It's always been valuable, but isn't any more valuable today than in the past.

b)

Because humans are affecting the landscape in unprecedented ways

c)

Because humans are made for conflict.

d)

The social side of geography is less valuable than the physical side.

13.

Which of the following is NOT something that motivates humans to change a landscape?

a)

The desire for money and livelihood

b)

A desire to protect the environment by restoring ecosystems

c)

Social pressures, like wanting a community to move in a certain direction

d)

The desire for things to stay the same

14.

How many steps do a research process consist of?

a)

6

b)

7

c)

8

d)

9

15.

What is the 3rd step in research process?

a)

Literature review

b)

Construct hypotheses

c)

Conduct a research study

d)

Collect relevant data

16.

What statement refers to a CASE STUDY research?

a)

Involves the in -depth study and detailed description of a single or limited number of groups through the used of theory.

b)

Research based on describing the past

c)

Where practitioners in their workplace, whether they be teachers, nurses, doctors, managers, etc., engage in research in order .

d)

Examines the relationship between two variables

17.

What is primary source?

a)

Suitable for students in grades 1 - 3

b)

A first-hand account of an event

c)

The first source you should use when conducting research

d)

All of the above

18.

What type of source is an encyclopedia?

a)

Book that may not circulate

b)

Tertiary source

c)

Basic reference source available in all libraries

d)

Secondary source

19.

Cyber bullying at work is a growing threat to employee job satisfaction. Researchers want to find out why people do this and how they feel about it. What is the primary purpose of the study?

a)

Description

b)

Prediction

c)

Exploration

d)

Explanation

20.

Qualitative research is used in all the following circumstances, EXCEPT:

a)

It is based on a collection of non-numerical data such as words and pictures

b)

It often uses small samples

c)

It uses the inductive method

d)

It is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest

21.

He argued that the tension between food supply and population ratio is significant threat to the balance between resources and population.

a)

Thomas Malthus

b)

August Comte

c)

Erasthotenes

22.

What best describes nature/natural science?

a)

Unrestrained and ever dynamics , usually follow a general pattern , law or process ever since the world existed

b)

Organized, deliberately structured and formalized, and bound by the people who themselves constitute society.

c)

There are human actions , behaviors , pattern of activities and decision making were done in a more efficient , legal and logical manner

d)

All of the above.

23.

Which of the following best describes what social sciences have in common?

a)

An interest in studying human beings

b)

The study of the human mind

c)

A focus on material culture

d)

Research that overlaps with genetics

24.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a social science?

a)

Physics

b)

Economics

c)

Anthropology

d)

Psychology

25.

If you were to explore why one group of people speak the way that they do, which discipline would be the MOST relevant?

a)

Linguistics

b)

Economics

c)

Psychology

d)

Sociology

26.

Which social science is most concerned with the distribution of resources in society?

a)

Psychology

b)

Economics

c)

Linguistics

d)

Anthropology

27.

Savannah plans to conduct a study that involves cosmetics. She wanted to know the preference of cosmetic use among adolescents, young adult, middle adult and the late adult women. What would be the research design of her study?

a)

Descriptive

b)

Sequential

c)

Historical

d)

Longitudinal

28.

With this social science one would study voting patterns, and the formation of politically based groups

a)

sociology

b)

economics

c)

political science

d)

history

29.

Being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes is important in this social science.

a)

economics

b)

geography

c)

anthropology

d)

sociology

30.

________ examine the process by which goods and services are produced, distributed and consumed.

a)

sociologists

b)

economists

c)

political scientists

d)

none of these