Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IX
Division of Zamboanga del Sur
CULABAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOOL
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
Summative Examination

Name: _______________________________________________________________ Grade Level & Section: _________________

General Directions: Read the following statements below and choose the correct answer from the given choices.
Write your answer in this paper/questionnaire.

Test I – True or False.

Directions: Analyze each statement. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false. Write your answer in
your activity notebook.
________1. The term “Politics” means scientific study of man or human beings.
________2. Cultural perspective sees social life as a competition, and focuses on the distribution of resources, power,
and inequality.
________3. Sociological theory attempts to explain how the social world operates
________4. Political Science, social science that deals with humans and their interactions.
________5. Nature of politics refers to a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology.
________6. “No man is an Island “.
________7. Through the process of socialization, we learn from other skills,
knowledge, norms, and values of society.
________8. School are agents of socialization.
________9. Socialization is a form of social control.
________10. Socialization established our identity.

Test II. Multiple Choice.

Directions: Read and analyze the questions carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. It defines how people relate to nature and their physical environment.
A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology
2. It always describes human, human behavior and human societies around the world.
A. Sociology B. Anthropology C. Political Science D. Culture
3. It is a social science that deals with humans and their interactions.
A. Sociology B. Anthropology C. Political Science D. Culture
4. It is the study of human social relationships and institutions.
A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology
5. It is a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing.
A. Beliefs B. Customs C. Traditions D. Norms
6. It refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a cultures content and structure.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological change
7. It refers to valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to understand the past.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
8. It is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the standards of one's own
culture.
A. Sociological view B. Culture C. Cultural relativism D. Society
9. These are rules or expectations of behavior and thoughts based on shared beliefs within a specific cultural or social
group.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
10. Cultural relativism teaches us that, marriage patterns are__________, not objective truth.
A. Social option B. Political option C. Cultural option D. Socio-cultural option
11. It is a person's principles or standards of behavior.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
12. It refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that shape the way its members understand
the world.
A. Politics B. Society C. Political Science D. Culture
13. Refers to a system of words and symbols used to communicate with other people.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
14. It is anything that is used to stand for something else.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
15. It is a variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization of sub groups within society.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological change
16. __________ cannot exist apart from culture. It is an organized group of individuals who share common/related
manner of living.
A. Institution B. Corporation C. Organization D. Society
17. Which of the following words can best describe culture and society as a complex whole?
A. Interdependent B. Interactive C. Interrelated D. All choices are correct
18. Analyze all the given statements. Trace which one is the best statement about the complexity of culture and society.
A. Society can exist without culture. C. Society can operate without culture command.
B. Culture can exist without society. D. None of the choices is correct
19. People carry and transmit culture, but they are not culture. Edward B. Tylor described culture as “a complex whole.”
Which of the following choices supports Tylor’s description of culture?
A. Culture as complex whole means it encompasses traits and values of the society.
B. Culture as complex whole means it includes laws and norms in the government.
C. Culture as complex whole means it deals with everything that a person learns and shares as a member of the
society.
D. Culture as complex whole means it refers to the beliefs and traditions of modern Filipinos.
20. Which statement is wrong about the concept of culture?
A. Culture is a way of life transmitted through social interaction.
B. Every society has its own distinctive culture.
C. Culture refers to a group’s ways of behaving and thinking.
D. Culture can evolve into anything.
21. It is considered as a primary group and a basic unit in a society?
A. Peers B. Family C. Teachers D. Facebook friends
22. Which of the following is a false statement pertaining to socialization?
A. Socialization may happen in organizations that maintain social control.
B. Socialization happens when existing social roles are changed.
C. In socialization processes, it’s very difficult to established our own identities.
D. Learning new norms and values may occur later in life.
23. The process of being socialized to a particular culture.
A. Ostracism B. Cultural orientation C. Cultural value D. Enculturation
24. A primary agent of socialization from infancy up to childhood.
A. Church B. Family C. School D. Barangay council
25. During the earliest stage of human cultural evolution, people were nomadic, so they hunt and gather foods. As they
learn to make a sedentary lifestyle in the Neolithic period. Which statement tells the accomplishment of human in the
Neolithic period?
A. Live in a cave C. Used metals to upgrade tools
B. Used unpolished stone tools D. Domesticate plants and animals

Test III – Explanation.

Directions: Read the statement carefully and express your answer briefly and clearly.
1. Briefly explain the importance of cultural relativism. 5 points