K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Narra National High School
FIRST QUARTER – 2017-2018
Name: _____________________________Grade 12 Track:_____________Date __________Score________
Activity No. 18 Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics-JUNE 27, 2017- FIRST MONTHLY TEST
DIRECTION: Choose the best answer. Write the letter of your answer in the space provided.
A. Culture B. Society C. Politics
F. Counter Culture G. high culture H. Popular Culture
___________1. Refers to the cumulative deposit of
knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes,
meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles,
spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material
objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in
the course of generations through individual and group
striving.
___________2. The social behavior and norms found
in human societies.
___________3. The cultivated behavior; that is the
totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience
which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior
through social learning.
___________4. organized group of persons associated to
gether for religious,benevolent, cultural, scientificpolitical
, patriotic, or other purposes.
___________5. the body of human beings generally,
associated or viewed as members of a community.
___________6. a highly structured system of human
organization for large-scale community living that
normally furnishes protection, continuity, security, and a
national identity for its members.
___________7. - "affairs of the cities"
___________8. is the process of making decisions
applying to all members of each group.
___________9. it refers to achieving and exercising
positions of governance — organized control over a
human community, particularly a state.
___________10. Your Side, Their Side & Truth.
___________11. Refers to the differences in social
behaviors that different cultures exhibit around the
world. What may be considered good etiquette in one
culture may be considered bad etiquette in another.
___________ 12. If human cultures modify the natural
environment, it is also true that the natural environment
initially shaped, and still shapes to some extent, the
culture of society.
____________13. The Japanese diet consists largely of fish,
seafood and vegetables because Japan is an archipelago and the
sea provided consistent sources of food and, with one twentieth
of the surface of the United States, there is no room for grazing
land for raising beef cattle. Similarly, climate, soil, and
geography affect cultural aspects.
____________14. the specific treatment of cows in
India is in fact an adaptation to natural and social
conditions. India is still a largely traditional agricultural
D. Human Culture Variation E. Sub-Culture
I. Ideal Culture J. Real Culture
country with extremely low mechanization. Cows are
sources of male calves that become oxen which can be used
to plow fields. Cows are also a major source of manure, a
valuable resource since India does not have oil resources and
suffers from a shortage of wood. Manure can be used as
fertilizer and heating energy. Finally, when cows die, they
are given to Untouchables (the lowest caste) who then tan the
skin into leather. Untouchables are also then relieved from
the prohibition of eating beef, which provides them with a
source of proteins.
______________15. A segment of society which
shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and
values which differ from the pattern of larger society.
It is a culture within a culture.
______________16. These are groups that have
specific cultural traits that set them apart from the
dominant culture.
______________17.
KWANZAA/HANUKKAH/M ENORAH/Winter Solstice
______________18. is a group whose values and norms
place it at odds with mainstream society or a group that actively
rejects dominant cultural values and norms. In most Western
countries, the 1960s saw the rise of different countercultural
groups and social movements that sought to dismantle the
different inequalities that were then part of the dominant culture,
such as racism (Civil Rights movement), sexism (modern
Feminist movement) and homophobia (Gay rights movement).
______________19. MILITIA - a military force that
engages in rebel or terrorist activities, typically in
opposition to a regular army.
______________20. Falun Gong - a spiritual
movement active in China
______________21. " is a term now used in a
number of difflerent ways in academic discourse,
whose most common meaning is the set of cultural
products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest
esteem by a culture.
______________22. culture based on the tastes of
ordinary people rather than an educated elite.
____________23. Consist of activities patronized by
audience composed of members of middle and upper class
such as ballet, opera, classical Music & Live Theater
____________24. Products and services that appeal to the
working class such as rock concerts, movies, soap opera,
sports & situation comedy.
____________25. Standard behavior and blueprint that
provide directions/guidelines in relating with others and
doing things.
____________26. Situation within the context of what is
regarded as acceptable by the members of a society.