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SOCIOLOGY MODULE B.1 9. A computer machine will not replace teachers because
it:
DIRECTIONS: Select the best answer to each of the A. does not teach values
following questions and blacken the appropriate space on B. has no human touch
your answer sheet. Answer in 30 minutes only. C. cannot lay down policies and guidelines
D. is automated by machines
1. Which of the following defines sociology?
A. A study that is concerned with discovering and 10. Traditional economy means
organizing facts, principles, and methods. A. colonial C. antiquated
B. A study of human groups, their customs and B. subsistence D. governmental
institutions, and their development at all times and places.
C. A study that deals with the production, distribution, and 11. All but one is subculture of poverty:
consumption of wealth by human groups. A. unplanned future C. weak impulse control
B. matrilocal family D. uncoordinated effort to change
D. A study of human behavior, mental processes, and
personality.
12. According to Karl Max, it establishes a classless society
A. noveau rich C. proletariat
2. People can best show enculturation when they learn to
B. bourgeoise D. the clique
A. be refined
B. act as people
13. The fusion in which two groups blend their culture so
C. love one another
that they become one.
D. talk, act, and think in acceptable ways
A. amalgamation C. acculturation
B. assimilation D. adaptation
3. Which of these are social barriers to change?
A. patterns of cooperation
14. The biological interbreeding of two people of different
B. authority patterns
physical appearance until they become one stock is called
C. characteristics of social structure
A. compatibility C. adaptability
D. all of the above
B. amalgamation D. intermarriage
4. The constitution provides for separation of the church
15. Rejecting a person based on ethnic identity is
and the state. One of the ff. is a violation of said
A. prejudice C. discrimination
provisions:
B. conjecture D. influence
A. prayer rally at EDSA to be led by Cardinal Sin
B. denying Estrada’s request that world expo be
16. The confluence where Catholics and Protestants can
held somewhere else
live peacefully in the same government is called
C. non-committal of the El Shadai and Iglesia to the
A. cultural relativism C. cultural pluralism
proposals made by Erap regarding PAL
B. ethnicity D. ecumenism
D. supporting candidates shown by the Protestant group
17. A deviant behavior is generally characterized by
5. The difference between divorce and legal separation is
A. anomie or normlessness
A. valid marriage
B. disloyal to the peer group
B. psychological incapacity of couple
C. aggressive attitude towards arguments
C. severance of marriage bond
D. different religious beliefs
D. legal impediment exists before marriage
18. The government controls the industry but the
6. All but one are characteristics of stereotypes:
individuals share in the profit in
A. group-shared image of another group
A. socialism C. communism
B. concern with social differences
B. anarchism D. capitalism
C. exaggerate some characteristics of members
D. maintain selective perception
19. Social mobility prevails in modern societies because of
A. automation
7. It normally transforms people from helpless victims into
B. change in occupational structure
persons
C. scientific progression
A. voluntary association
D. bureaucracy
B. social welfare department
C. guidance counselor
D. therapeutic self-help group

8. The manifest functions of religion include all but one

A. fraternal relationships C. rituals
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20. If stratification is inevitable but functional, which of 30. A mother-housewife-career woman who feels tension
the following does not follow? and has difficulty fulfilling all her role obligations is
A. extreme inequality in rewards motivate people to work suffering from what Goode termed as?
B. some inequality is necessary for the efficient utilization A. role exchange C. powerbloc
of potential talents B. role strain D. role withdrawal
C. inequality should not exceed the amount justified on
the criterion of efficiency 31. Socialization refers to:
D. some people make financial sacrifices in exchange for A. the underlying dynamics of social structures
challenging, interesting or self-fulfilling work B. that particular space an individual occupies in society
C. the process by which society serves an internalized
21. Marasmus is a disease predominantly found in commitment from an individual
underdeveloped countries. It is aggravated by D. the stimulation of social life
A. anemia
B. deficient calcium content 32. Social classes are characterized by:
C. protein calorie deficiency A. common occupations, income, lifestyle, prestige and
D. obesity relationship to the means of production
B. allegiance to those in their own class and antagonism to
22. All but one is a characteristic of suburb: those in other classes because of conflict of interest
A. low population density C. solidarity and acting in behalf of shared interests as well as
B. predominance of private homes organizational against other classes
C. abundance of open space D. all of the above
D. decentralized facility
33. A social movement is a collective effort to promote or
resist change. Which of the ff. may be the strongest force to
23. The power which emanates from the government has
start social movement?
its foundations on the following but one:
A. social, economic or political discontent
A. legitimacy C. authority B. deprivation of basic needs
B. influence D. traditional transition C. inconsistence between theory and practice
D. personal failure
24. Among the characteristics of population affecting
technology are all but: 34. At what stage does an individual become fit to
A. rate of its growth function in a society?
B. directions of its mobility A. During his academic training
C. supply of technically skilled workers B. Upon graduation from college
D. spatial patterns of mobility C. When he starts attending social functions
D. When he learns the accepted norms and practices
25. Demography is the study of population while statistics
A. determines sex ratio 35. Jose was a family driver for ten years whereupon his 11th
B. provides data of fertility & mortality year of service, he was transferred and thus became a
C. mathematical presentation of graphs company driver. Jose’s case illustrates:
D. none of the above A. horizontal mobility C. group conformity
B. stratification D. social change
26. The term which refers to all of the natural resources
which are usable in the productive processes 36. The primary function of religion in human societies
A. labor B. land C. production D. economy is to
a. establish an orderly relationship between man and his
27. If institutions have coercive power, therefore: surroundings
A. they exist subjectively and can be “wished” away b. help people understand the existence of both good and
B. an individual can change its order through persuasion evil
C. offenses against it results in ridicule and persecution c. allay man’s fears and anxieties over unexplainable
D. defiance is accepted without sanction phenomena
d. provide a way for man to be able to communicate with
28. If man’s behavior and personality is shaped by the God
groups to which he/she belongs:
A. members are isolated from one another 37. Which of the following is NOT true of the relationship
B. groups are formed randomly and without purpose among members of large secondary groups?
C. the greater the interaction, the greater the influence on a. Primary relations tend to persist in the form of intimate
norms and values. cliques
D. man can achieve solely through individual effort b. There is emphasis on the efficiency by which people
accomplish their jobs
29. Which of the ff. concepts characterize family: c. It is unlikely that every member is aware of every other
A. dyad C. primary group member
B. Laissez-faire D. secondary group d. The goal is to provide for the personal needs of the
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38. A person who becomes rich is scorned by the old, 44. Which instance supports the notion that culture is
wealthy families. The law graduate who works as a clerk learned?
and the old man who pursues a young woman are all a. a vegetarian has to eat pork because there was nothing
suffering from: else to eat
a. ascribed status c. status consistency b. a Visayan girl became fluent in Tagalog after a few
b. achieved status d. status incongruity years stay in Manila
c. a modern Chinese woman no longer followed the
39. Which of the following conditions is true under the practice of binding her feet because of its impracticality
fascist system? d. a child whose parents were very strict grew up to be
a. Labor unions are independent and are not under state shy and withdrawn
influence.
b. Private ownership of business by individuals is 45. Which of the following assumes an interrelationship
permitted. between two demographic processes?
c. Business is owned by the government but leased to a. The younger entry into marriage, the greater the
private individuals. number of children
d. The government owns and runs all business. b. The higher the level of education, the greater the
number of children
40. The major trend in the development of Philippine c. The higher the occupational level, the lesser the
society is a shift from the traditional, familistic, agricultural number of children
society to a rational, specialized, industrial complex. Which d. The more migratory, the lesser the number of children
of the following would NOT be a feature of this society?
a. work recruitment based on specialized competencies 46. Culture is influenced by the environment which is
b. relationships defined and strengthened by legal influenced by the culture within it. What kind of
contracts interrelationship is shown by this statement?
c. focus on progress in business and economics a. continuous
d. system that foster regionalism b. dynamic
c. functional
41. The concept of socialization refers to the process of: d. mutual
a. learning roles, attitudes, and the corresponding
behavior proper to a society or group 47. This theory recognizes change is inevitable and that
b. making oneself acceptable to other members of a social society is characterized by the struggle of opposing forces
group A. Functionalist C. Interaction
c. participating in the activities of the group B. Conflict D. none of these
d. determining the principles of behavior governing the
give-and-take of services in a society 48. A Hindu society composed of castes would feature:
A. work specialization C. endogamy
42. Which of the following is NOT true of modern B. social mobility D. flexibility
societies which emphasize achieved status and roles:
a. people are not expected to remain in one position in 49. A learned predisposition to respond to people,
their entire life objects, or institution in a positive or negative way is:
b. people who are ambitious can move up the social A. a norm C. a belief
ladder B. an attitude D. a stereotype
c. people can be assigned to tasks that they are most
qualified for 50. The EDSA revolution and the resulting effect on the
d. people are protected against the stresses of constant country’s political structure is an attempt at:
adjustment to new roles A. social change C. maintaining the status quo
B. an attitude D. revolution
43. The members of a common society share the same
values, such as for economic success and upward mobility,
and they are stratified into a number of distinct strata. It
could be stated that the society is stratified because:
a. The values are not shared by all members of the society
b. The means for realizing the shared values are not
equally distributed
c. The values are divisive
d. The strata are not classes

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