BCNHS

Understanding Culture,
Society and Politics Quarter
1 - Summative 2

Week 3: Identify the goals of Anthropology,

Political Science, and Sociology
Week 4: The concept, aspects and changes
in/of culture and society
Instructions: Read each item carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer
and shade the corresponding letter in the answer sheet provided.

1. The exercise of power, the science of 5. Which of the following refers to the
government, the making of collective gradual acquisition of the
decisions, the allocation of scarce characteristics and norms of a
resources and the practice of culture or group by a person,
deception and manipulation is another culture?
__________. A. Acculturation
A. Government B. Enculturation
B. Governance C. Integration
C. Politics D. Socialization
D. Political science
6. Which of the following BEST describe
2. Which of the following is cultural anthropology?
NOT included in the branches A. It examines the language of a
of government? group of people and its relation
A. Executive to their culture.
B. Judicial B. It promotes the study of
C. Legislative society’s culture through their
D. Political power belief systems, practices and
possessions.
3. Culture is __________. C. It attempts to solve
A. Totally acquired by family contemporary problems
interactions. through the application of
B. Entirely learned during our theories & approaches of the
school formation. discipline.
C. Acquired only after living from a D. It examines the remains of
certain community. ancient and historical human
D. The full range of learned populations to promote an
behavior patterns and understanding of how humans
knowledge acquired by people have adapted to their
as members of a society. environment and developed.

4. An organized group or groups of 7. Which of the following best explains

people who generally share a “society and culture as a complex
common territory, language and whole”?
culture, and who act together for A. A change in society reflects a
collective survival and well-being is change in culture. Likewise, a
called __________. change in culture indicates a
A. Culture change in society.
B. Politics B. A system is made up of
C. Society
D. Sociology
 multidisciplinary components
and society tend to follow the
complexity of a system.
C. The society is facing enormous
problems, and yet, people keep
on holding on to their respective
beliefs, attitudes, values, etc.
D. Society is made up of complex
nature of humans and culture is
made up of several systems,
therefore society and culture are
complex.
8. What do anthropologists mean when
they refer to the concept of
"integration" in regard to cultures?
A. All aspects of culture are
interrelated.
B. Different kinds of people should
learn to live together in peace.
C. The best way to study another
culture is by working with a team of
researchers from different academic
disciplines.
D. Any successful behavior,
strategy, or technique for obtaining
food and surviving in a new
environment provides a selective
advantage in the competition for
survival with other creature.
9. Which of the following
characteristics of culture is
described if it enables the
members of society to develop ways
of coping with the experiences of
nature, as well as harnessing the
forces of their environment?
A. Culture is adaptive
B. Culture is gratifying
C. Culture is ideational
D. Culture is transmitted
10. When ideas, like children should
respect their parents or fiestas should
be held to honor the patron saint are
part of the culture shared by
members of our society, this only
implies that culture is________.
A. Adaptive
B. Ideational
C. An integrated whole
D. Social, collective, & learned
11. Johnrey has the potential to learn
any culture. He even acquires beliefs,
behavior patterns and values of
different society. This attitude shows
a particular dynamic of culture called
_________.
A. Dynamic, flexible & adaptive
B. Shared and contested culture
C. Patterned social Interactions
D. Transmitted through socialization
12. Which of the following are examples
of non-material culture?
I. Building
II. Clothes
III. Ideas
IV. Feelings
V. Food
VI. Knowledge
VII. Values
VIII. Thoughts
A. I,II,III,V,IV,VII
B. III,IV,VI,VII,VIII
C. II,V,VI,VII,VIII
D. IV,V,III,II
13. Which of the following BEST
explains the diversity of culture?
A. Regards one’s own culture as
superior.
B. The norms, beliefs, and ideas of
society must be understood.
 C. The great variety of solutions
evolved by people from different
societies.
D. The wide range of differences in
cultural patterns, ideas, beliefs,
knowledge, forms of social
organization and practical
responses to the environment.
14. As a member of the present society
characterized by complexities of human
nature and culture, how will you help the
society in facing global crisis such as
health pandemics.
A. Ensure that you and your family
have enough stocks of basic
needs such as foods and
medicines.
B. Disseminate information using
social media to increase public
awareness even if not sure of the
accuracy of information.
C. Abide or follow the rules and
regulations set by health
institutions and authorities such as
staying at home and practicing
good hygiene.
D. Quit from studying, stay in the
bedroom, and have so much
sleep to make sure that you will not
catch any infectious disease from
going out of the house.
15. Which of the following are elements
of State?
I. People
II. Territory
III. Government
IV. Sovereignty
V. International relations
A.I, II, III, IV
B. II, III, IV, V
C. III, IV, V, I, II
D. IV, V, I, II, III
16. You are very observant or careful in
using the social media because you
want to have a peaceful life and
does not want to commit crime and
deal with enforcing agents of the
society. What element of culture is
depicted in this situation?
A. Knowledge
B. Laws
C. Practice
D. Values
For items 17-20, apply what you have
learned in culture, society, and politics
as conceptual tools to develop specific
behavior/phenomena. Choose your
answer below and write only the letter
of the correct answer.
A. Food taboos
B. Same-sex partnership
C. Video gaming
D. Youth volunteerism
17. Members of the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church are strongly
prohibited from eating pork and food
with blood, as well as from smoking and
drinking alcoholic beverages.
18. Michael almost missed the chance
to finish high school because he had
been absent most of the time playing
Cash of Clans (COC).
19. As a youth volunteer, Verna finds
the rainy season a busy season due to
the frequency of typhoon-related
disasters. Sometimes she spends her
own money to buy relief goods for
typhoon victims.
20. Darius is openly gay. He lives with
his partner Garner. He and Gardner are
both college professors in the local city
college.