UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FINAL EXAM

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 relate with his or her interaction
with others and the world.
 A. Beliefs  B. Values  C. Language  D. Norms
5.It is a hereditary endogenous social group in which a person’s rank and his/her
rights and obligations are ascribed or 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  C. Cultural evolution
B. Neolithic revolution  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  C. Cultural evolution
B. Industrial society   D. Neolithic revolution
25. A species of hominid. They are the modern humans.
A. Homo habilis  C. Homo erectus 
B. Homo sapiens sapiens D. Homo sapiens
26. It is where a social group with which an individual does not identify to be part of.
A.Out-Group  C. Reference Group 
B. Primary Group  D. Secondary Group
27. It is a small social group whose members share personal and lasting
relationships.
A. Out-Group  C. Reference Group 
B. Primary 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  C. Reference Group
B. Primary 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  C. Secondary Group
B. B. Primary 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  C. Patrilineal descent
B. Bilateral 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 C. Patrilineal descent
B. Bilateral descent   D. Unilineal descent
35. It is a kinship system in which descent is traced through only one gender.
A. Matrilineal descent  C. Patrilineal descent 
B.  Bilateral descent  D. Unilineal descent
36. A system that traces descent through the women of the clan.
A. Matrilineal descent  C. Patrilineal descent 
B. Bilateral 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  C. Patrilineal descent
B. Bilateral 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  C. Extended family 
B. Blended 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  C. Extended family 
B. Blended 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  C. Extended family
B. Blended family   D. Single parent family type

II. Matching type. Match the description in Column A with the words in Column
B.Write only the letter on the space provided.
A
 ____ 41. Philippine folk medicine
____ 42. The entitlements to accrue to one because he/she  
____ 43. It is a political unit that has sovereignty 
____ 44. Distinct population of people bound together by a 
 ____ 45. A political unit headed by a chief who holds power
 ____ 46. Healing that involves scientific process 
 ____ 47. Freedom from external controls 
 ____ 48. Traditional healer yet gives prescriptions of medicines 
 ____ 49. Practiced by majority of doctors nowadays 
 ____ 50. A combination of smaller kin linked by a common culture
B

 A. Nation 
B. Traditional way of healing is a human being.
C. Human Rights 
D. State a common culture, history, and tradition
E. Medic over more than one community group 
F. Chiefdom
G. Western way of healing
H. Sovereignty
I.
J. Alternative healing that actually act as one. 
K. Tribe

III. Identify whether the following statement concludes human as: SOCIAL
being, CULTURAL being, or POLITICAL being. Write your answers on the space
provided.
__________ 51. We always belong to the group and interact with people.
__________ 52. We carry our ancestors’ traditions and beliefs.
__________ 53. Our rights and privileges are limited because we are governed by
rules and laws of our society. 
__________ 54. Our power is inherent in the rights guaranteed and protected by our
State. 
__________ 55. We relate with our childhood friends, neighbors, and classmates.
__________ 56. We speak the language of our parents, practice faith and the distinct
way of life of our community.
__________ 57. We create or showcase the arts and heritage of our people and
transmit some, if not all, of these to the next generation.
__________ 58. We become citizens, we elect our leaders, we pay taxes, we receive
welfare and support from the government because our Constitution and our laws tell
it so.
__________ 59. We will be having our co-workers or colleagues in office,
professional peers here and abroad. 
__________ 60. We are always in company with others like our parents and siblings.
IV. Identify whether the following statement gives the significance of studying:
CULTURE, SOCIETY or POLITICS

61. Gives meaning to the importance of the self in relation to others (kapwa)

 ____________62. Broadens our perspectives on how we value our own and others’
cultures
  ____________63. Educates us on the importance of exercising our rights and
maximizing our political participation to sustain,maintain or change
society ____________64. Provides a bigger context on how government works and
how rules, regulations and laws maintain socialorder, cohesion and
unity ____________65. Describes how and why we belong to a bigger global society
IV. Essay. 15 points.66-70. If you are given the chance to talk to the Philippine
President, what would it be? Why?Elaborate your answer.71- 75. What is your
idea about the continuous poverty your fellow citizen is experiencing? What
couldbe the possible reasons? What can you contribute to uplift it?76- 80. Reflect
on the quote below:
“
The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to
increase the
knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty”