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Understanding Culture, Society and Politics - Summative Test

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Studies both the ancient and recent past of humans through the material remains, such as artifacts, fossils and bone fragments.

a)

Population Studies

b)

Cultural Anthropology

c)

Sociology

d)

Archeology

2.

This study of political relations between nation-states. It includes the study of diplomacy, military conflict, and conflict resolution, as well as the international political economy, international organizations, and other processes that operate across the boundaries of nation-states.

a)

Political Science

b)

Political Methodology

c)

Political Economy

d)

Sociology

3.
Studies human cultures, beliefs, ideas, technologies, economies, practices, values, and other spheres of social and rational organization.
a)
Linguistics Anthropology
b)
Cultural Anthropology
c)
Archeology
d)
Social Organization
4.
This area includes size, growth, demographic characteristics, composition, migration, changes, and quality vis-à-vis economic, political, and social systems.
a)
Political Science
b)
Archeology
c)
Population Studies
d)
Sociology
5.
It studies factors that cause social organization and social disorganization like calamity, drug abuse, drastic and gradual social change, health and welfare problems, political instability, unemployment and underemployment, child and women issue, etc.
a)
Social Organization
b)
Social Change
c)
Sociology
6.
Study of production and trade and their relations with law, custom and government; and with the distribution of national income and wealth.
a)
Political Economy
b)
Political Science
c)
Population Studies
d)
Sociology
7.
It is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.
a)
Political Science
b)
Population Studies
c)
Political Economy
d)
Public Administration
8.
This includes the study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy.
a)
Political Science
b)
Population Studies
c)
Sociology
d)
Social Organization
9.
Focuses on the qualitative methods used in the study of politics combining statistics, mathematics, and formal theory. It is often used in positive research, unlike normative research. It is related to econometric.
a)
Political Economy
b)
Political Science
c)
Political Methodology
10.
The modern word ‘political’ derives from the Greek politikos, ‘of, or pertaining to, the ‘polis’.
a)
Population Studies
b)
Sociology
c)
Political Science
d)
Political Economy
11.
Also challenges individuals to evaluate and criticize their own culture.
a)
Population Studies
b)
Linguistics Anthropology
c)
Sociology
d)
Anthropology
12.
This science also means understanding the nature of various social realities so that this society can draw up strategic plans, set goals and programs that will work to increase progress and raise society.
a)
Population Studies
b)
Political Science
c)
Sociology
d)
Archeology
13.
Explains that the perspective of sociology enables us to see “general patterns in particular events.”
a)
W.I. Thomas
b)
Peter Berger
14.
An American sociologist, formulated a theorem in 1928 which states: “if people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
a)
W.I. Thomas
b)
Peter Berger
15.
An offshoot of increased food chain, several groups become wealthy and able to acquire lands and declared these as their own domain. It is based on ownership of land. What type of pre-industrial is this?
a)
Agrarian Society
b)
Feudal Society
c)
Horticultural society
d)
Pastoral society
16.
More advanced societies, dominated by information, services, and high technology, surfaced. What type of society is this?
a)
Industrial societies
b)
Modern societies
c)
Pre-industrial societies
d)
Post-industrial societies
17.
Refers to all that man has made for himself through time, material or non-material still useful or not anymore, all to provide benefits for his society.
a)
Culture
b)
Law
c)
Norms
d)
Society
18.
Elements of non-material culture.
a)
Beliefs, values, norms, folkways, ideas, knowledge
b)
Values, norms, tradition, ideas, beliefs, folkways
c)

none

19.
Which of the following is a NOT characteristic of society?
a)
Another characteristics of society is its nature of being dynamic and changeable.
b)
Humans do not live alone, isolated from each other. Instead, individuals tend to live in communities with other people to help one another.
c)
Society is static
20.
The prevailing method food production during this period is through pastoralism, more efficient than the subsistence method. What type of pre-industrial societies?
a)
Agrarian Society
b)
Feudal Society
c)
Horticultural society
d)
Pastoral society
21.
Is a group of people interacting with each other and having a common culture; sharing common geographical or territorial domain, and having relatively common aspirations.
a)
Culture
b)
Law
c)
Norms
d)
Society
22.
Culture within a social group is transmitted to succeeding generations through imitation, instruction. What kind of characteristics of culture is this?
a)
Culture is adaptive
b)
Culture is changeable
c)
Culture is learned
d)
Culture is transmitted
23.
What are the main types of culture?
a)
Formal and non-formal culture
b)
State and non-state
c)
Material and non-material culture
24.
Culture is “that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”
a)
Alfred Kroeber
b)
C. Wright Mills
c)
Edward B. Tylor
d)
Franz Boaz
25.
Is a group of people interacting with each other and having a common culture; sharing common geographical or territorial domain, and having relatively common aspirations.
a)
Acculturalization
b)
Culture
c)
Society
d)
Sociocultural
26.
Which is NOT belong to the group?
a)
Culture is adaptive
b)
Culture is changeable
c)
Culture is learned
d)
Culture is transmitted
27.
Humans do not live alone, isolated from each other. Instead, individuals tend to live in communities with other people to help one another.
a)
Yes, it is absolutely true.
b)
No, humans can live alone.
c)
Maybe, it is true.
d)
Either yes or no.
28.
Habits, customs, and repetitive patterns of behavior, is an EXAMPLE of?
a)
Evidence Culture
b)
Material Culture
c)
Non-based Culture
d)
Non-material Culture
29.
Comprise man’s concepts of his physical, social and cultural world as manifested in people’s beliefs and values.
a)
Belief
b)
Customs
c)
Folkways
d)
Ideas
30.
He provided a technical term for viewing one’s ethnicity (ethno) in the center of all cultures (centrism).
a)
William Sumner
b)

Wright Mills

c)

Wright Mills

31.
It refers to the practice of viewing another culture by its own context rather than assessing it based on the standards of one’s own culture.
a)
Cultural Relativism
b)
Acculturation
c)
Real Culture
32.
This refers to the distinguished _________ on the basis of the conditions under which cultural contact and change take place.
a)
Cultural Relativism
b)
Acculturation
c)
Real Culture
33.
It includes the values and norms that are actually followed by a culture.
a)
Cultural Relativism
b)
Acculturation
c)
Real Culture
34.
Each culture has its distinct features and characteristics.
a)
Cultural Diversity
b)
Cultural Integration
c)
Incorporation
35.
He discovered that cultural universals often revolve around basic human survival or around shared human experience.
a)
Cultural Diversity
b)
George Morduck
c)

W.I. Thomas

36.
It refers to the cultural traits that are logically consistent with one another or simply neutral to one another.
a)
Cultural Diversity
b)
Cultural Integration
c)
Incorporation
37.
It refers to the free borrowing and modification of cultural elements and occurs when people of different cultures maintain contact as well as political and social self-determination.
a)
Cultural Diversity
b)
Cultural Integration
c)
Incorporation
38.
It is a foreign culture does not necessarily make you disloyal or less nationalistic to your home country.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Ethnocentrism
c)
Xenocentrism
39.
It refers to the characterized by certain limitations such as limited food, limited source of energy, and other delimiting factors of the people’s environment.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Geographical Environment
c)
Xenocentrism
40.
It pertains to the belief that one’s native culture is superior to or the most natural among other cultures.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Ethnocentrism
c)
Xenocentrism
41.
It has an opposite relative or the belief that one culture is inferior to another.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Ethnocentrism
c)
Xenocentrism
42.
It involves an idealized, uncompromising value system that dictates perfect behavior.
a)
Ideal Culture
b)
Cultural Imperialism
c)
Real CUlture
43.
A person imposes his/her own culture upon another person with intentions to help him/her detach from what the former thinks is an essentially inferior culture.
a)
Ideal Culture
b)
Cultural Imperialism
c)
Real CUlture
44.
It involves an adaptable value system that is used mostly as a set of guidelines for preferred behaviors.
a)
Ideal Culture
b)
Cultural Imperialism
c)
Real CUlture
45.
It is the natural process of biological change occurring in a population across successive generations.
a)
Civilization
b)
Bronze Age
c)
Evolution
46.
This species is also known as the “handy man”.
a)
Homo Habilis
b)
Homo Erectus
c)
Homo Heidelbergensis
47.
The general process of learning culture is referred to as ___________.
a)
Culturization
b)
Acculturation
c)
Socialization
48.
It refers to the way we live everyday.
a)
Folkways
b)
Norms
c)
Culture
49.
These consist people who regularly and consciously interact with one another.
a)
Coalitions
b)
Category
c)
Social groups
d)
Aggregate
50.
It pertains to people who share similar characteristics but are not tied to one another in any way.
a)
Social groups
b)
Aggregate
c)
Category
d)
Coalitions