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Prelim Examination: Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is the study of relationships among people.

a)

Anthropology

b)

Sociology

c)

Archaeology

d)

Etymology

2.

It is the system by which a state or community is controlled as to put order.

a)

Political

b)

Constituents

c)

Government

d)

System

3.

It deals with the systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behavior.

a)

Public Policy

b)

Political Theory

c)

International Relation

d)

Political Science

4.

The 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 relates with his or her interaction with others and the world.

a)

Beliefs

b)

Values

c)

Language

d)

Norms

5.

It is a hereditary endogamous social group in which a person’s rank and his/her rights and obligations are ascribed on the basis of his/her birth into a particular group.

a)

Caste

b)

Class

c)

Estate

d)

Slavery

6.

It describes what is appropriate or inappropriate in a given society or what ought to be.

a)

Beliefs

b)

Values

c)

Language

d)

Norms

7.

It is a shared set of spoken and written symbols.

a)

Beliefs

b)

Values

c)

Language

d)

Norms

8.

It refers to specific rules/standards to guide appropriate behavior.

a)

Beliefs

b)

Values

c)

Language

d)

Norms

9.

Also known as customs, these are norms for everyday behavior that people follow for the sake of tradition or convenience.

a)

Mores

b)

Law

c)

Taboos

d)

Folkways

10.

It is an organized political community living under a single system of government.

a)

State

b)

Society

c)

Government

d)

Culture

11.

A group of people involved in persistent interpersonal relationships, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

a)

State

b)

Society

c)

Government

d)

Culture

12.

A person or practitioner who studies Anthropology.

a)

Sociologist

b)

Psychologist

c)

Anthropologist

d)

Archaeologist

13.

It refers to an alteration in the social order of a society.

a)

Social Science

b)

Social Climber

c)

Social Change

d)

Social Stratification

14.

It refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.

a)

Social Climber

b)

Social Science

c)

Social Change

d)

Social Stratification

15.

It is something that is not present in nature but is formed through a process done by man.

a)

Artifacts

b)

Civilization

c)

Democracy

d)

Neolithic

16.

It involves the rejection of both the cultural goals and the traditional means of achieving those goals.

a)

Retreatism

b)

Ritualism

c)

Ostracism

d)

Idealism

17.

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

a)

Social control

b)

Social ostracism

c)

Social stratification

d)

Social change

18.

The fact or state of diverging from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.

a)

Gossip

b)

Enculturation

c)

Deviance

d)

Conformity

19.

It is the acceptance of the cultural goals and means of attaining those goals.

a)

Gossip

b)

Enculturation

c)

Deviance

d)

Conformity

20.

The importance, worth, or usefulness of something.

a)

Values

b)

Status

c)

Self

d)

Role

21.

It is known as the holistic “science of man”, a science of the totality of human existence.

a)

Anthropology

b)

Sociology

c)

Archaeology

d)

Etymology

22.

The study of previous cultures of humans by analyzing various artifacts and fossils.

a)

Paleontology

b)

Archaeology

c)

Paleozoology

d)

Geology

23.

It is a process wherein there are notable changes made to the culture of a society over several generations.

a)

Industrial Society

b)

Neolithic revolution

c)

Cultural evolution

d)

Biological evolution

24.

A term that is used to refer to the impact and development of farming to the lives of people.

a)

Biological evolution

b)

Industrial society

c)

Cultural evolution

d)

Neolithic revolution

25.

A species of hominid. They are the modern humans.

a)

Homo habilis

b)

Homo sapiens sapiens

c)

Homo erectus

d)

Homo sapiens

26.

It is where a social group with which an individual does not identify to be part of.

a)

Out-Group

b)

Primary Group

c)

Reference Group

d)

Secondary Group

27.

It is a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships.

a)

Out-Group

b)

Primary Group

c)

Reference Group

d)

Secondary Group

28.

These are used in order to guide our behavior and attitudes and help us to identify social norms.

a)

Out-Group

b)

Primary Group

c)

Reference Group

d)

Secondary Group

29.

These are large clusters of people who have a mutually shared purpose, often aiming to complete tasks.

a)

Out-Group

b)

Primary Group

c)

Secondary Group

d)

Reference Group

30.

These are groups of people that has distributive task for a collective goal.

a)

Groups

b)

Class

c)

Society

d)

Organizations

31.

It is the custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.

a)

Endogamy

b)

Exogamy

c)

Monogamy

d)

Polygamy

32.

It is the tracing of kinship through both parents’ ancestral lines.

a)

Matrilineal descent

b)

Bilateral descent

c)

Patrilineal descent

d)

Unilineal descent

33.

It is the custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe.

a)

Endogamy

b)

Exogamy

c)

Monogamy

d)

Polygamy

34.

It is a kinship system in which an individual’s kin group, or clan membership, is traced through men.

a)

Matrilineal descent

b)

Bilateral descent

c)

Patrilineal descent

d)

Unilineal descent

35.

It is a kinship system in which descent is traced through only one gender.

a)

Matrilineal descent

b)

Bilateral descent

c)

Patrilineal descent

d)

Unilineal descent

36.

A system that traces descent through the women of the clan.

a)

Matrilineal descent

b)

Bilateral descent

c)

Patrilineal descent

d)

Unilineal descent

37.

It’s a family tree that is only tracked through the men or women of the family, but not both.

a)

Unilineal descent

b)

Bilateral descent

c)

Patrilineal descent

d)

Matrilineal descent

38.

A family unit that results from the union of two parents, both with a child or children from previous relationships.

a)

Nuclear family

b)

Blended family

c)

Extended family

d)

Single parent family type

39.

A family unit which extends beyond the nuclear family to include grandparents and other relatives.

a)

Nuclear family

b)

Blended family

c)

Extended family

d)

Single parent family type

40.

The family unit which consist of one parent raising one or more children on his own.

a)

Nuclear family

b)

Blended family

c)

Extended family

d)

Single parent family type