SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Understanding Society, Culture and Politics
1ST QUARTER EXAMINATION
A.Y. 2020-2021
General Directions:
 Read the questions carefully.
 Answer the test items by following the indicated
instructions.
I. Identification:
1. It is the beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws,
norms, artifacts, symbols, and knowledge that a
person learns and shares.
2. It is a group of people living together in organized
communities following common laws, values,
customs and traditions.
3. It involves making decisions that apply to members
of a group.
4. Patterns of Social Interaction:
Dahyun and Sana give each other’s gift.
5. Patterns of Social Interaction:
Jihyo and Momo teach each other how to sing and
dance.
6. Patterns of Social Interaction:
Chae and Tzuyu want to be the top of the class
that’s why Tzuyu try to cheat.
7. Patterns of Social Interaction:
Jeognyeon and Mina want to be school
valedictorian. They tend to create beautiful projects
to receive high grades.
8. Patterns of Social Interaction:
Nayeon said that she will destroy Dahyun’s project
so that she will be the one to be on the top.
II. Identify: Choose the letter of the correct
answer
1. The following are the roles of Babaylay during Pre-
Colonial Philippine Society except for:
a. Performs various religious and social functions
b. Heal
c. Foretelling and insight
d. Lead the community
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2. During the Spanish Colonial Period
a. Filipino gain more independence
b. Women receive equal rights to men
c. Anyone can study and go to school
d. Young women are trained to be a good wives
3. The Gender roles in current Philippine Society
a. today is more open allowing both men and
women to perform different tasks
b. Not based solely on gender
c. We look for individual’s capabilities and
strengths
d. Men have more opportunities than women
4. Which of the following is not example of Alipin
Saguiguilid
a. Mina has no right to own a property
b. Jihyo is a captive from a war
c. Tzuyu can be sold for a sack of rice
d. Dahyun will pay her debt and return back in
Timawa
5. The following are example of Ilustrados except
a. Dr. Jose Rizal
b. Mariano Ponce
c. Marcelo H. Del Pilar
d. Graciano Lopez Jaena
6. Which of the following is an example of Social
Mobility?
a. Nayeon works 24/7 just to create money for
their living.
b. Chae is contented to be in middle
socioeconomic class
c. Sana marries Dubu which makes Sana transfer
from Middle income class to low income class.
d. Momo receive below minimum wage from her
work.
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7. Which of the following represents the
anthropological perspective of culture and society?
a. Anthropologist states that Japan has more
culture then Korea
b. Anthropologist distinguishes elite culture and
popular culture in one society.
c. Anthropologist states that one culture is
superior than the other
d. Anthropologist is concerned mainly with
differences between cultures.
8. Which of the following does not represents the
sociological perspective of culture and society?
a. Culture and Society are two different things.
b. Culture and Society are connected.
c. Culture and Society affects each other
d. Culture and Society can live without each other.
9. FORMS OF CONFORMITY: Dahyun sing and dance
Taylor Swift’s songs just to impress other people.
a. Ingratiational
b. Compliance
c. Identification
d. Internalization
10. FORMS OF CONFORMITY: Chae dance Ariana
Grande’s song but in reality she hates what she’s
doing.
a. Ingratiational
b. Compliance
c. Identification
d. Internalization
11. FORMS OF CONFORMITY: Twice is a vegetarian
group that’s why when Dahyun joins Twice, Dahyun
eats vegetable when she’s with them but when
she’s alone she eats what she wants to eat.
a. Ingratiational
b. Compliance
c. Identification
d. Internalization
12. FORMS OF CONFORMITY: Tzuyu is a quiet girl and
when she joined Twice she change her behavior
whole heatedly.
a. Ingratiational
b. Compliance
c. Identification
d. Internalization
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13. Which of the following is not example of Deviance.
a. You commit murder
b. You steal something precious
c. You eat pork in a muslim community
d. You identify different cultures.
14. Which of the following is not example of Natural
Rights?
a. Chaelin give birth to a healthy baby boy
b. Minzy create a good and happy life
c. Dara do what she want
d. Bom demands for a higher grade
15. Which of the following is not example of Statutory
Rights?
a. Chaelin receives above minimum wage in her
company.
b. Minzy attend to public schools without paying
tuition fees.
c. Dara receives a voucher that will help her to
enroll in a private school in Senior High School.
d. Bom expresses her opinion to the government.
16. Which of the following is not example of
Constitutional Rights?
a. Anyone has the right for information
b. Right to use and dispose of his property
c. Right of self-defense
d. Right to be in a proper school
III. Direction: Identify whether the following
statements show ethnocentrism or cultural
relativism.
1. One’s own culture is superior to others.
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural Relativism
2. Putting yourself in others’ shoes
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural Relativism
3. Accepts and respects the evident differences from
members of the society.
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural Relativism
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 a. Ethnocentrism
4. Causes people to practice bias and intolerance. b. Cultural Relativism
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural Relativism 10. Recognizes the uniqueness and beauty of every
culture.
a. Ethnocentrism
5. Segregation of black people and the white people.
b. Cultural Relativism
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural Relativism
IV. Modified true or False. Write True if the
statement is true and if it is false write the
6. Bullying, discrimination, war, etc. correct answer. (2pts each)
a. Ethnocentrism 1. During pre-colonial Philippines, males and
b. Cultural Relativism females enjoy the same rights and privileges.
2. During American period, they become liberated,
which is a term used by older people to refer to
7. Different environments = different lifestyles = Filipino women who have adopted American
Everything is relative. values.
a. Ethnocentrism 3. During Japanese period, women became busy
b. Cultural Relativism defending the country, with most of them
serving as soldiers.

8. Failing to see the world and its aspects in a wider

perspective. V. Directions: In 3-5 sentences discuss the
following: (5 points each)
a. Ethnocentrism
 Cooley: Looking-Glass Self
b. Cultural Relativism
 Mead: Theory of the Self

9. Shapes our understanding of different issues in the

society.

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29-32. Our view of ourselves, then, comes not only from direct contemplation of our personal qualities but also from our
impressions of how others perceive us. Cooley used the phrase looking-glass self to emphasize that the self is the
product of our social interactions with other people.

33-36. According to mead, the self begins as the privileged center of a person’s world. Young children picture
themselves as the focus of everything around them and find it difficult to consider the perspective of others.