UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS REVIEWER

FOR 3RD QUARTER

Pamela Mae Aliven STEM 102

1. Choose below which describes anthropology best:

a) anthropology is wide ranging and has field which has specialized fields
b) anthropology is a study about humans
c) anthropology presents multitude of ways to approach problems about humans
d) anthropology studies and discusses variation in people, but also tries to discover in which
multitude states similarities in humans too.

2. Which prominent anthropologist stated the following: "Anthropology has humanity as its object of research, but
unlike the other human sciences, it tries to grasp its object through its most diverse manifestations?"

a) Clifford Geertz
b) Claude Lévi-Strauss
c) Marshall Stinson
d) Tim Ingold
3. True or False: The discipline is also concerned with accounting for the interrelationships between different
aspects of human existence, and usually anthropologists investigate these interrelationships taking as their point
of departure a detailed study of local life in a particular society or a delineated social environment.

a) true
b) false

4. Etymology of the anthropology.

a) Anthropology came from two Greek words ‘anthropos’ and ‘logos’, which can be translated as ‘human’
and ‘reason’, respectively.
b) Anthropology came from two Greek words ‘anthropo’ and ‘logos’, which can be translated as ‘reason'
and 'human.'
c) Anthropology came from two Italian words ‘andropos’ and ‘logos’, which can be translated as ‘human’
and ‘reason.'
d) Anthropology came from two Latin words ‘andropo’ and ‘logo’, which can be translated as ‘human’
and ‘reason’, respectively.

5. Which of the following has been described as one of the two or three most complicated words in the English
language?

a) colere
b) culture
c) society
d) societas
6. Which words has the same origin as the word culture?

a) colere
b) society
c) colony
d) crowning

7. This discipline emphasizes the importance of ethnographic fieldwork, which is a thorough close-up study of a
particular social and cultural environment, where the researcher is normally required to spend a year or more.

a) colere
b) anthropology
c) society
d) societas

8. This term (from Greek ‘ethnos’, meaning ‘a people’) means evaluating other people from one’s own vantage-
point and describing them in one’s own terms.

a) ethnocentriasm
b) culture
c) society
d) ethnocentrism

9. True or False: Cultural relativism is sometimes posited as the opposite of ethnocentrism.

a) false
b) true

10. This discipline is an indispensable and unquestionable theoretical premise and methodological rule-of-thumb
in our attempts to understand alien societies in as unprejudiced a way as possible.

a) ethnocentriasm
b) cultural relativism
c) cultural relation
d) ethnocentrism

11. These facts are also the facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of
individual men and women.

a) contemporary issues
b) modernized facts
c) contemporary facts
d) ethnocentrism

12. True or False: Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without
understanding both.

a) false
b) true
13. This often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it.

a) facts
b) information
c) conspiracy
d) sociological imagination

14. This enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life
and the external career of a variety of individuals.

a) facts
b) information
c) conspiracy
d) sociological imagination

15. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp and and the between the two within
society.

a) facts, knowledge and relationships

b) information, biography and rivalry
c) history, biography and relations
d) sociological information, history and rivalry

16. According to this philosopher, a human being is a political animal; he is not human but a beast or a God if he
could live outside the state.

a) Aristotle
b) Newton
c) Galileo
d) Pascal

17. Some scholars locate politics in a collectivity. They believe that politics “is at the _____ of all collective
________, formal and informal, public and private, in all human groups, institutions and societies, not just some of
them, and that it always has been and always will be”

a) center; tasks
b) heart; social activity
c) center; social activity
d) heart; tasks

18. For this man, politics and totalitarianism cannot coexist.

a) Aristotle
b) Easton
c) Crick
d) Laswell
19. He defines politics as any activity involving human beings associated together in relationship of power and
authority where conflict occurs.

a) Robert Dahl
b) David Easton
c) Ronald Crick
d) Robin Lass

20. To him, an allocation of values that is not authoritative is not political and in society, it is the state that has the
authority to allocate values.

a) Robert Dahl
b) David Easton
c) Ronald Crick
d) Robin Lass

21. This man together with Aristotle, consider the state as the highest of all social organizations.

a) Robert Dahl
b) G.W.F Hegel
c) St. Augustine of Hippo
d) Jean Jacques Rousseau

22. The man in #21 is also known as?

a) the French political thinker of the Romantic period

b) the Italian political philosopher of the Romantic period
c) the French political philosopher of the Romantic period
d) the Italian political thinker of the Romantic period

23. This medical Christian scholar, believed that the state was a necessary evil. The human being had original sin
and he needed the state to help him lead a normal life.

a) Robert Dahl
b) G.W.F Hegel
c) St. Augustine of Hippo
d) Jean Jacques Rousseau

24. This German philosopher, explains the nature of the state in this way: From one point of view, the state is a
necessity that is higher and outside personal life, family life, and social affairs.

a) Robert Dahl
b) G.W.F Hegel
c) St. Augustine of Hippo
d) Jean Jacques Rousseau

25. Karl Marx (1818-1883), another German philosopher and his collaborator Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), for
example, called the state ____________ ______ __of the proletariat and predicted that it would wither away.
 a) the instrument of the exploitation
b) the instrument of the excruciation
c) the instrument of the excommunicado
d) the instrument of the expansion

26. This is defined as a “political association that establishes sovereign power within a defined territorial area and
possesses a monopoly of legitimate violence.

a) government
b) society
c) community
d) state

27. This treaty signed by Philippines and Japan allows free trade on selected commodities, but restricts or prohibits
it on other items.

a) JPPEPA
b) JPEAP
c) JPEPA
d) PJEPA

28. In ancient Greece, before the city-states were conquered by the ________ Empire, the prevalent attitude
towards the state was active involvement and direct rule by citizens.

a) Macedonian
b) Japanese
c) Trojan
d) Macedomian

29. He criticized Athenian democracy and taught his disciples that statesmanship was an occupation not meant for
just anyone.

a) Helge
b) Aristotle
c) Plato
d) Gala

30. In which field was Aristotle more concerned about?

a) rule of the indifferent politics

b) rule of the thumb
c) rule of the society
d) rule of law

31. The totality of social institutions and status relationships makes up the social structure of________.

a) society
b) community
 c) country
d) government

32. True or False: The term ‘social system’ has been used a great deal here with no further definition. It can be
defined as a set of social relations which are regularly actualised and thus reproduced as a system through lack of
interaction.

a) true
b) false

33. The term ‘__________’ has in recent years entered the everyday vocabulary of many societies.

a) social network
b) network
c) internet
d) networking

34. True or False: Distinctions between relevant systemic levels depends on which persons are related in which
ways to which others.

a) false
b) true

35. The first anthropologist to use the term in #33 is?

a) Johnne Barnes
b) Johannes Barnes
c) Johann Barnes
d) John Barnes

36. A main point in Barnes’s study is that this kind of society lacks the stable ________ typical of African societies.

a) resources
b) corporations
c) income
d) lifestyle

37. This is a village on the south-western coast of Mauritius, an island-state in the Indian Ocean (Eriksen 1988).

a) Casa Noyale
b) Casa La Royale
c) Case Noyale
d) Case La Royale

38. He is the founder of Social Darwinism.

a) Johannes Barnes
b) Herbert Spencer
c) Mark Douglas
d) Trick question. The founder is a she. Therefore, it is Mary Ann Fortes.
39. In 1936, ________ had written that the term ‘function’ is an expression from mathematics which has no place
in social science.

a) Johannes Barnes
b) Anthony Giddens
c) Gregory Bateson
d) Robert Hudson

40. He has tried to reconcile these two main dimensions of social life, agency and structure, through his general
theory of structuration.

a) Johannes Barnes
b) Anthony Giddens
c) Gregory Bateson
d) Robert Hudson

41. True or False: Societies can be delineated through enduring systems of interaction and through the presence of
shared social and political institutions with a certain continuity through time, although neither boundaries nor
continuity are ever absolute.

a) true
b) false

42. True or False: Politics is a loaded term.

a) true
b) false

43. She defined political power as 'acting in concert.'

a) Mary Ann Fortes

b) Hannah Arendt
c) Victoria Johnson
d) Jeanne Frank

44. He told German Reichstag, “Politics is not a science... but an art,”

a) Johannes Barnes
b) Chancellor Bismarck
c) Andrew Heywood
d) Robert Hudson

45. "Hey, it's all in the ____."

a) hands of fate
b) mind
c) story
d) genes

46. Charles Darwin also was influenced by ______.

 a) Chancellor Bismarck
b) Kate Hudson
c) Einstein
d) Sir Charles Lyell

47. The man that influenced Charles Darwin in #46 is the _______.

a) Father of Chemistry
b) Father of Geology
c) Father of Biology
d) Father of Physics

48. True or False: Uniformitarianism states that the present is the key to the past. Explanations for past events
should be sought in the long-term action of ordinary forces that still operate today.

a) true
b) false

49. This is the process by which the life forms most fit to survive and reproduce in a given environment do so in
greater numbers than others in the same population.

a) Natural Selection
b) theory
c) rule of law
d) politics

50. This is a science that emerged after Darwin, helps us understand the causes of biological variation.

a) biology
b) evolution
c) genetics
d) biotechnology
 UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS REVIEWER
FOR 3RD QUARTER: ANSWER KEY
1. d) anthropology studies and discusses variation 24. b) G.W.F Hegel
in people, but also tries to discover in which
multitude states similarities in humans too. 25. a) the instrument of the exploitation

2. b) Claude Lévi-Strauss 26. d) state

3. a) true 27. c) JPEPA

4. a) Anthropology came from two Greek words 28. a) Macedonian

‘anthropos’ and ‘logos’, which can be translated as
29. c) Plato
‘human’ and ‘reason’, respectively.
30 d) rule of law
5. b) culture
31. a) society
6. c) colony
32. a) true
7. b) anthropology
33. a) social network
8. d) ethnocentrism
34. b) true
9. b) true
35. d) John Barnes
10. b) cultural relativism
36. b) corporations
11. c) contemporary facts
37. c) Case Noyale
12. b) true
38. b) Herbert Spencer
13. b) information
39. c) Gregory Bateson
14. d) sociological imagination
40. b) Anthony Giddens
15. c) history, biography and relations
41. a) true
16. a) Aristotle
42. a) true
17. b) heart; social activity
43. b) Hannah Arendt
18. c) Crick
44. b) Chancellor Bismarck
19. a) Robert Dahl
45. d) genes
20. b) David Easton
46. d) Sir Charles Lyell
21. d) Jean Jacques Rousseau
47. b) Father of Geology
22. a) the French political thinker of the Romantic
period
48. a) true
23. c) St. Augustine of Hippo
49. a) Natural Selection 50. c) genetics