Ormoc City Senior High School

Ormoc City Division

TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS

SUBJECT: UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

GRADE: 12
SEMESTER: MID-TERM TEST
DATE: AUGUST 9-10, 2018
PREPARED BY: DIVINA JOY A. MOREÑO

APPLICATION
KNOWLEDGE

COMPREHEN

ANALYSIS/SY

EVALUATION
NTHESIS
SION
CONTENT/COMPETENCIES QUESTIONS ITEMS

Easy (70%) Moderate Difficult (10%)

A.1
Sharing of social and cultural
backgrounds of students as acting subjects
or social actors, agents, persons;
Articulate observations on human
cultural variation, social differences,
social change, and political identities
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10 Items
Which component of culture should architecture belong? 1
1 a. Artifact or Material
b. Non-material
c. Communication
d. Tangible Heritage
Which of the following is an example of a formal form of culture? 2
1 a. City Ordinance on smoking ban c. Club invitation for an audition
b. Greeting older people good morning d. Celebrating the debut of a classmate
A female student insists to wear a black sleeveless shirt to school. Can she 3
1 claim this as her right to exercise her personal culture? Why or why not?
a. Yes, because this is her cultural identity
b. Yes, because this allows her creativity
c. No, because she belongs to a school that has regulations and norms she
should follow
d. No, because she will be suspended

All of the statements describes social change. Which one DOES NOT? 4
a. Social change always happens

A.2
Observations about social, political, and
cultural behavior and phenomena;
Demonstrate curiosity and an openness to
explore the origins and dynamics of
culture and society, and political identities
A.3 Analyze social, political, and cultural
change
A.4
Definition and common concerns or
intersections of anthropology, sociology,
and political science with respect to the
phenomenon of change
1 b. Social change stops when population decreases
c. Social change is often controversial
d. Social change can be intentional or unplanned
Which of these is a negative effect of bureaucracy? 8
1 a. Efficient transaction in the government agencies
b. People are treated like machines to produce instead of being humane
c. Many people go to urban areas
d. Generation of more jobs that discourages workers
Identify which of the items is considered a cultural taboo? 7
1 a. Wearing of colourful dress in a wedding
b. Serving pork to a muslim visitor
c. Use of gay lingo
d. None of the above
Which of the following could be a the negative effect of political dynasties in 9
our country?
1
a. Misuse of funds are commonly unreported
b. Hiring of employees related to the supervisor
c. People are able to look for the best candidates during election
d. There is proper accounting in the use of public funds
Explain how changes in cultural elements are considered as social change. 10
1 a. Any change in the cultural elements is automatically also a social change
b. Change may either be a cultural or social change
c. When changes in any elements of culture is already participated in or
performed by people
d. None of the above
How is sociology distinguished from anthropology? 12
a. Sociology studies societies while anthropology does not
b. Sociology focus on behaviour of people in a group while anthropology focus
1 on people’s behavior from the past to the present
c. Anthropology and sociology are the same
d. All of the above
1 One of the following statements is true as regards to the common concerns or 11
intersections of anthropology, sociology, and political science –
a. That anthropology, sociology and political science are all the same
b. That anthropology, sociology and political science are studies of human
biological characteristics
c. That anthropology, sociology and political science are not social sciences
 d. That anthropology, sociology and political science are studies of social
understanding

1 This theory states that poverty and social problems of health are results of 20
neglect committed by the dominant class or by some agencies of the
government such as; the legislature and senate, department of health etc.
a. Cultural Relativism by Franz Boas
b. Structural Violence by Paul Farmer
c. Democracy by Socrates
d. Socialism
This theorist says that gift-giving or gift is something which symbolizes one’s 21
1 dignity, economic, social, official, political, religious, filial, and legal status and
that it demands mutual benefits of the giver and the receiver.
a. Karl Marx
b. Paul Farmer
c. Marcel Mauss
d. Any of the above
Bronislaw Malinowski suggests the participant observation as a method of 22
1 research. Which of these practices are an example of it?
a. A group of sociologists discusses the effects of technology to the youth in a
conference room.
b. A researcher went to the slums and looked at the behaviour of people in
poverty
c. A senior high student volunteered in the red cross unit to observe the
practices in the organization
d. All of the above
A teenager talks a lot around his classmates in school and jokes with them on 23
1 occasions. At home he rarely talks to his parents and would rather stay alone in
his bedroom. This is an example of which theory?
a. Franz Boas – Cultural Relativism
b. Marcel Mauss – Gift-giving
c. Gary Alan Fine – Shared Fantasy
d. Erving Goffman - Dramaturgy
This theorist classifies society into three periods - pre-modern, modern and late- 19
1 modern. In pre-modern, man does not require much thought because of limited
choices. While in the late modern eras, man is able to have many choices that
needs extensive reflection.
a. Paul Farmer c. Marcel Mauss
b. Anthony Giddens d. Any of the above
 He suggested in his theory Dramaturgy that life is a never ending 18
1 play where man acts according to who is audience is in the front
stage, and
a. Paul Farmer b. Erving Goffman
c. Marcel Maus d. Any of the above
Texting is an example of___. 6
1 a. Political Change
b. Cultural Change
c. Social change
d. B and C

A.4
Definition and subjects of inquiry in
anthropology, political science, and
sociology
This is a branch of political science that allows one to value diplomacy and 13
1 creation of networks between states or countries
a. International Relations
b. Archeology
c. Public Administration
d. Advertising and Business

B1. When one tries to understand the present society relative to its past and studies 14
Society as a group of people sharing a 1 remains and artifacts, one is interested in
a. History
common culture; b. Archeology
anthropological and sociological c. Political Theory
perspectives d. Linguistic Anthropology

B2. Which of the following can be a form of an acculturation? 25

Describe society and culture as a complex 1 a. Philippine Flag
b. Maria Clara dress
whole c. Philippine Jeepney
d. Kalesa

B3.
Aspects of Culture
a. Dynamic, Flexible, & Adaptive
b. Shared & Contested (given the reality
of social differentiation)
c. Learned through socialization or
enculturation d. Patterned social
interactions
e. Integrated and at times unstable
Identify which is the most important element for enculturation to happen 27
1 a. Pictographs
b. Language
c. Visual arts
d. Following the behaviour of your parents
What differentiates an ethnic group from the indigenous people? 28
1 a. Ethnic groups are those of similar ethnicity and cultural background while
indigenous people have a long standing history in a territory
b. Ethnic groups and indigenous groups are the same
c. Ethnic groups live in urban areas while indigenous people live in rural areas
d. None of the above
f. Transmitted through
socialization/enculturation
g. Requires language and other forms of
communication
1 Culture in its entirety has various parts but is one interconnected body. One
B3.
Aspects of Culture;
Raise questions toward a holistic
appreciation of cultures and societies
B4.
Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism as
orientations in viewing other cultures
1 What is acculturation? 17
a. Adapting a new culture that is mixed with your own culture
b. Adapting a new culture that came from another foreign place
c. Creating a new culture that is unique and not shared by anyone else
d. Discovering an old culture and reviving it to be part of your culture today
Culture is psychological and not biological; in this sense culture needs to be 15
1 taught to nurture others and make them productive members of society. Which
cultural aspect is this?
a. Shared and Contested
b. Flexible
c. Dynamic and adaptive
d. Rigid
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must learn about all its parts not only a few to understand it. Which cultural
aspect is this?
a. Flexible
b. Learned and Transmitted
c. Rigid
d. Integrated
1 Which of the following shows the unpredictableness of society? 29
a. the popularity of facebook in almost all people with internet access
b. the calamity that happens in a community
c. when society is constant and culture is preserved
d. A & B
1 Which of the following shows social stratification? 5
a. Noting that there are 15 boys and 12 girls in the classroom
b. The census in the barangay showed that there are 50 middle income families
in the community
c. A blog talking about the perks of living in a big city compared to living in a
small town
d. None of the above
Choose which of the given statements exhibit an ethnocentric point of view 30
1 a. A boy joining his barkada to play basketball
b. A grandmother scolds her teenage granddaughter for wearing too sexy
clothes.
c. A group of researchers immersed in an indigenous tribe to experience their
practices

1 It rejects the idea that certain things such as morality and truth are subject to
Identify forms of tangible and intangible
heritage and the threats to these
d. A little boy went to an all-boys school
Which of the following is considered a consequence of cultural relativism? 31
1 a. Racial discrimination
b. Bashing in the internet
c. Difficulty to set moral standards
d. None of the above
This is an argument that certain set of standards should be applied universally. 17
some conditions and limitations and all must be considered true and moral
within its context.
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural Relativism
c. Socialism
d. Democracy
How is the introduction of cultural relativism able to balance man’s 32
1 ethnocentric tendencies?
a. When people start to understand other people history and respect others’ point
of view
b. When people are able to set laws and regulations that is relevant to the richest
countries in the world
c. When the poor is able to reach success in life by comparing themselves to the
rich lifestyles
d. When people start to read books about other cultures
How is tangible cultural heritage able to influence society? 33
1 a. Tangible heritage can be borrowed and brought home to show the family
b. Tangible heritage is a practice that can be passed on from generation to
generation
c. Tangible heritage is a replica of the real happening of the past
d. Tangible heritage helps able to validate memories and important events
c. Banaue Rice terraces
d. Pottery-making techniques
How can one help manage the preservation of the intangible culture? 34
1 a. By protecting indigenous people who practices it
b. By preparation before a calamity or disasters
c. By placing additional security in the area
d. By giving tribes a better place to stay and teach them technology
While intangible and tangible cultural heritage are the different, how are they 35

C1.
Trace the biological and cultural
evolution of early to modern humans
1 inter-connected?
a. Both can be seen or touched
b. One uses intangibles such as knowledge and practices to be able to build a
tangible heritage
c. Intangible heritage is less important than tangible heritage
d. Intangible and tangible heritage is exclusively different from each other
Which of the following is an example of an intangible cultural heritage? 36
1 a. Pyramid of Giza
b. Flag of the Philippines
c. Banaue Rice terraces
d. Pottery-making techniques
All of these define the Neolithic period. Which one DOES NOT? 37
1 a. Use of fire to be able to adapt to cold climate
b. Social stratification already appeared and made social divisions between
slaves, farmers and rulers
c. Percussion Flaking and Hand Axes
d. Cave paintings takes longer time to finish
Which of the following human lineage first started the use of fire in their daily 38
1 activities?
a. Homo Habilis
b. Homo Erectus
c. Homo Neanderthalis
d. Homo Sapiens
What marks the transition of man from Old Stone to New Stone Age? 39
1 a. Man is able to use fire to cook and use at night time for bonding
b. Man made simple art in caves
c. Man already used elements in the environment for his benefit such as tilling
the land to produce food
d. Man used bifacial, sharper stones to be able to crack small nuts and bones
All are reasons of how man’s bipedalism helps him to learn culture. Which one 40
1 is not?
a. Ability to see predators from afar and avoid it
b. Ability to carry with the free hands
c. Ability to travel in long distances
d. Ability for man to sit still in a stable chair
Which of the following is true about man’s capacity for culture? 41
1 a. Man can learn culture because of his thinking capacity
b. Man is able to learn culture because of his ability to walk and stand on two
feet

C2. Cultural and sociopolitical evolution:
from hunting and gathering to the
agricultural, industrial , and post-
industrial revolutions;
Explore the significance of human
material remains and artefactual evidence
in interpreting cultural and social,
including political and economic,
processes
C2. Recognize national, local and
specialized museums, and archeological
and historical sites as venues to appreciate
and reflect on the complexities of
biocultural and social evolution as part of
being and becoming human.
D.1
c. Man’s opposable thumb
d. All of the above
What is percussion flaking as used during the Oldowan Industry of the old stone 42
1 age?
a. Use of harpoon in order to kill animals for food
b. Use of hammer stone to produce a crude stone for butchering animals
c. Use of sharp pointed stone to be able to crack bones
d. None of the above
How are you able to describe man’s subsistence during the paleolithic period? 43
1 a. Foraging or Scavenging
b. Simple Agriculture
c. Cooking and preserving food
d. Use of water for irrigation
The first early civilization settled in_____. 44
a. Mesopotamia
1
b. Philippines
c. Sumer
d. Mesoamerica
All are features that can be seen in an early civilization. Which one DOES 45
1 NOT belong here?
a. Jobs and Technology
b. Writing and Record-keeping
c. Cities and Government
d. Give money to pay taxes
Which of the following is true about state formation? 46
1 a. States form to be able to secure regional territories
b. States form because of diseases and famine
c. States from to create division in society
d. All of the above
Explain which of the following activities was able to show the educative aspect 47
1 of musems
a. Students visit a local museum to feed their curiosity on colonial history
b. Shops were able to benefit from the tourists who bought souvenirs after the
museum tour
c. Flights were booked by tourists to be able to visit a museum opening
d. None of the above
1 Which parenting style demonstrates a firm but reasonable way of caring? 48
Explain the development of one's self and a. Authoritarian parenting
others as a product of socialization and b. Authoritative parenting
c. Uninvolved parenting
enculturation d. Permissive parenting

D.1 1 Which of the following is FALSE about learning culture? 49

Identify the context, content, processes, a. Culture is learned through social interaction
b. Culture can be learned from the media
and consequences of enculturation and c. Culture is inherited and present during infancy
socialization d. Culture may shape our personality through time

1 Which of the following is a negative socialization? 26

a. When one is given a reward after achieving a high score in the test
b. When one is grounded and the cell phone taken away because of going home
late
c. When one is given more chores because he/she is good at cleaning
d. When one is not given any attention by the parents when he/she has followed
rules in the house

D.2 While anthropology views and consequently defines deviant behavior as a result 24
Conformity and deviance; 1 of some physical or psychological attributes of human beings, sociologist
however sees it as____.
Identifies the social goals and the socially a. A normal & natural phenomenon needed for a society to innovate and
acceptable means of achieving these goals avoid being socially stagnant.
b. A result of conflict between two classes of society which needs to be
controlled by the rule of law.
c. A natural occurrence by reason of man’s freewill to choose right from
wrong.
d. A result of a strange phenomenon which subdue man to commit the same.

D.2 According to Merton’s structural strain theory, an individual who deals drugs in 50
Conformity and deviance; 1 order to get rich would be called a/an:
a. conformist b. innovator
Human dignity, rights, and the common c. ritualist d. retreatist
good
TOTAL (50) 35 10 5
Prepared by:

DIVINA JOY A. MOREÑO ALAN GUERRA BRENDA P. MAROLEÑA

Subject Teacher Subject Coordinator Principal II