U.C.S.P.

FIRST QUARTER PRE-TEST

Name: ____________________________________________ Section: ___________________________
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. It refers to the rich diversity in social practices that different cultures exhibit around the world.
a. cultural variation c. political identities
b. social difference d. social change

2. It is a situation where people are discriminated against based on social, economic, and racial
inequality.
a. social change c. social difference
b. cultural variation d. political identities

3. It is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept,
generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation
from one generation to the next.
a. culture c. politics
b. society d. community

4. It defined as a group of people who share a common economic, social, and industrial infrastructure.
It is also an organization of people who share a common cultural and social background.
a. community c. society
b. culture d. politics

5. It is the way that people living in groups make decisions, making agreements between people so
that they can live together in groups such as tribes, cities, or countries.
a. politics c. culture
b. community d. society

6. The study of politics is related to Political Science, while _________ is to Sociology.

a. society c. community
b. culture d. politics

7. It is a behavioral science that deals with the study of culture.

a. Sociology c. Political Science
b. Anthropology d. Psychology

8. It is science that deals with the foundation of the state and principles of government
a. Political Science c. Psychology
b. Sociology d. Anthropology

9. It is defined as constituting in a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory.
a. culture c. people
b. society d. community

10. A set of practices and traditions that defines a specific society.

a. community c. culture
b. people d. society

11. A set of ideas people share good or bad, desirable, or undesirable

a. norms c. society
b. values d. culture

12. It refers to the symbols, language, beliefs, values, and artifacts that are part of any society.
a. norms c. society
b. community d. culture

13. It is regarded as an adaptive response to some tension within the social system
a. social change c. social order
b. cultural change d. conflict
14. The modern philosopher who introduced the symbolic interactionism to the American sociology in
the 1920s.
a. Karl Marx c. Emile Durkheim
b. Friedrich Engels d. George Mead

15. It is a theory that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited
resources.
a. Structural Functionalism c. Conflict Theory
b. Symbolic Interactionism d. Social Order

16. It includes buildings and historic places, monuments, artifacts.

a. tangible culture c. heritage
b. intangible culture d. culture

17. It includes oral tradition, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive
events.
a. heritage c. intangible culture
b. tangible culture d. cultural arts

18. Which of these is an example of ethnocentrism?

a. a boy bullying his classmate for being fat
b. people in the city looking down on Aetas
c. a girl who prefers to wear shirts and jeans instead of dresses
d. a mother scolding her daughter for not going to church

19.Which of the following statements is incorrect?

a. Ethnocentrism promotes patriotism and solidarity.
b. Cultural relativism holds that moral principles are relative
c. Cultural relativism suggests that there are no 'better' or 'worse' cultures, just different cultures.
d. Ethnocentrism mean that the values and behavior of people must be understood within their own
cultural context.

20. It is when people find cultural practices and values not their own as disturbing and threatening,
a. xenophobia c. cultural relativism
b. ethnocentrism d. xenocentrism

21. It is a process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the
evolutionary history of primates.
a. cultural evolution c. cultural change
b. human evolution d. cultural variation

22. It was the first hominid species that was distributed in the “Old World” and was discovered by
Eugene Dubois.
a. Homo Sapiens c. Homo Habilis
b. Homo Erectus d. Homo Rudolfensis

23. It is the species was coined by Prof. Raymond Dart which means “Southern Ape”.
a. Australopithecus afarensis c. Australopithecus africanus
b. Australopithecus robustus d. Australopithecus ramidus

24. It was characterized as the modern human.

a. H. erectus c. H. habilis
b. H. rudolfensis d. H. sapiens sapiens

25. This species is called “handy man”.

a. H. rudolfensis c. H. sapiens sapiens
b. H. habilis d. H. erectus

26. A form of government in which the citizens create and vote for laws directly, or indirectly via
representative.
a. Authoritarianism b. Chiefdom c. Democracy d. Monarchy
27. A government controlled by a king or queen.
a. Democracy b. Monarchy C. Oligarchy d. Empire

28. The acceptance of the cultural goals and means of attaining those goals.
a. Social control c. Social order
b. Conformity d. Deviance

29. Behavior that violates social norms.

a. Conformity c. Deviance
b. Social control d. Social order

30. This are given to those individuals who deviate from social norms.
a. Reward c. Punishment
b. Social control d. Social order

31. The acceptance of the goals of a culture but the rejection of the traditional
or legitimate means of attaining those goals.
a. Retreatism c. Ritualism
b. Rebellion d. Innovation

32. It involved the rejection of cultural norms and trying to change the goals and
means to achieve their beliefs.
a. Rebellion c. Innovation
b. Retreatism d. Ritualism

33. People insist to attain the goal, but they are aware how to achieve it the right
way.
a. Rebels c. Innovators
b. Ritualists d. Conformists

34. Deviants reject cultural norms without replacing those goals and objectives,
instead creating a norm they believe in.
a. Ritualists c. Conformist
b. Rebels d. Retreatists

35. It involved the rejection of cultural norms and trying to change the goals and
means to achieve their beliefs.
a. Retreatism c. Rebellion
b. Conformitism d. Innovation

36. These are given to individuals who exemplified the values and follow norms, usually those who
conform.
a. Punishments c. Rewards
b. Social orders d Social control

37. It is a social structure that exists between actors (individuals and

organization)
a. Social Hierarchy b. Social Network c. Social Media

38. It is a small group whose members share personal and lasting relationship.
a. Primary group b. Secondary group c. Tertiary group

39. Social institution that organizes a society’s production, distribution, and consumption of goods
and services.
a. Education b. Family c. Religion d. Economy

40. It is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, and beliefs. It is a social institution where the
children of society are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms.
a. Family b. Religion c. Education d. Economy

41. Its main functions are law enforcement, order and stability, resolving various types of disputes
through the legal system providing standard defense, and seeking the welfare of the population in
ways beyond individual means such as implementing public health measures, providing education to
the masses
a. Economy b. State c. Economy d. Family
42. A type of authority that is passed down a line of succession.
a. Rational b. Charismatic c. Traditional

43. A _________ is a type of society wherein every member of the state has equal access to
everything.
a. Anarchy b. Classless society c. Pluralism

44. What is authority?

a. Your boss
b. It is a person or organization that have no power.
c. A person or organization that controls a system in a particular sphere.

45. A _______ is any entity that is involved in the political process.

a. Political Organization b. Political Dynasty c. Political Regime

TEST II:
Direction: Match column A to B. Write the letter of your answer before the
number.

A B
1. The process by which a a. Cultural evolution
species gets to be fitted to b. Genetics
its environment; it is the c. Cultural change
result of natural selection’s d. Biological adaptation
acting upon heritable e. Acclimatization
variety over a few eras

2. Concept that denotes

some internal and external
factors leading to change in
the cultural pattern of
societies.

3. The idea states that

human cultural change in
the beliefs, knowledge,
customs skills, attitudes,
and languages of humans
over time.

4. It is a process by which
individual organism adjusts
to a change in its
environment, permitting it
to maintain the
performance that changes
the
condition of the
environment.

5. It is environmentally
specific in which a
particular gene may be
damaging to have in
another environment.

TEST III

Direction: Identify what is being asked in the following statements. Choose your
answer inside the box and write the LETTER only on the space provided.

1. The process by which individuals are educated about the standards and
behaviors related with their assigned sex, ordinarily amidst childhood
development.

2. The backbone of a society that determines the future of any given society.

3. It is used to assess and improve a group’s relationship with a group.

4. The process by which people learn the requirement of their surrounding

culture and obtain the values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in
that culture.

5. The lifelong social experience by which people develop their human

potentials and learn culture.

6. ____ refers to the biological differences between males and females.

7. The rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its
members.

8. This refers to the social position a person takes on voluntarism reflecting

personal ability and effort.

9. Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable,

good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living.

10. This is what the individual is anticipated to do, given his status in the
society.
Answer Key: 3. A
4. E
TEST I 5. B
1. A TEST III
2. C 1. C
3. A 2. L
4. C 3. B
5. A 4. H
6. A 5. J
7. B 6. A
8. A 7. G
9. B 8. E
10. C 9. K
11. B 10. D
12. D
13. A
14. D
15. C
16. A
17. C
18. B
19. D
20. B
21. B
22. B
23. C
24. D
25. B
26. C
27. B
28. B
29. C
30. C
31. D
32. A
33. D
34. A
35. C
36. C
37. B
38. A
39. D
40. C
41. B
42. C
43. B
44. C
45. A

TEST II
1. D
2. C