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Lina High School Discipline and Ideas in Social Sciences

Brgy. Poblacion Norte, Licab Nueva Ecija Midterm Examination

Multiple Choices. On your answer sheet, write the letter that corresponds to your chosen answer.

1. Economics: Social Science 10. Which of the following economist authored the “An
Physics: ___________ Essay on the Principle of Population”.
A. Humanities C. Soft Science A. Thomas Malthus C. Adam Smith
B. Natural Science D. Science and Technology B. David Ricardo D. Ayers and Collinge

2. Which among the following is related to the
human reactions to events and the meaning
created by experience.
A. Social Science C. Natural Science
B. Scientific Method D. Humanities
3. Social science and natural science are both scientific
but differ in focus because?
A. Natural science deals with spiritual values
B. Social science deals with all aspects of the group life
of humans
C. Social science deals mostly with matter and energy
D. Natural science does not deal with living things
11. In Economics, positive economics is viewed as the
descriptive form of economics wherein its chief aims
is to describe and explain economic phenomena or
behavior, while normative economics is
A. Associated with welfare economics and is focused
on providing explanations and arguments on how
economic policies should be
B. Not in any manner, associated with the welfare
economics but focus on giving explanations and
arguments on how economic policies should be
C. Focus on dealing with quantitative form since
positive economics is in the descriptive form
D. Dealing with what is observable in the environment.

4. Which of the following is not considered a social 12. Which of the following is not an example of
science? Macroeconomics
A. Sociology C. Geography A. Market C. Competition
B. Philosophy D. Economics B. Demand D. Price stability

5. One difference between natural and social science is 13. All are examples of microeconomic EXCEPT:
that social science tends to? A. How a local business decides to allocate their funds
A. Be more empirical B. How a city decides to spend a government surplus
B. Utilize the scientific method more frequently
C. The housing market of a particular
C. Use controlled experiments less often
city/neighborhood
D. Be more mathematical
D. None of the above
6. Anthropology most often studies the relationship
between? 14. Which among the Greek words oikos and nomos has
the meaning of?
A. The natural environment and trading system
A. Home and Management C. Stock and Allocation
B. Biological traits and socially acquired characteristics
B. Needs and Wants D. All of the above
of humans
C. Physics and biology
15. Which among is the minimum income required to
D. Marketing strategies and geography
meet the basic needs like food, clothing, housing,
health and so on.
7. Which of the following is a subject that
A. Poverty C. Poverty Threshold
anthropologists would potentially study?
B. Puberty D. All of the above
A. the religions and myths of Australian Aborigines
B. health care in the United States
16. Which branches of geography deals with the studies
C. ancient Native American villages
of natural features of the earth?
D. all of these
A. Human Geography C. Physical Geography
B. Geographika D. Geographical
8. Anthropology focuses on the role of
__________ in shaping human behavior.
17. Which among the source is implied in this situation:
A. biology C. values
Upon studying the earth,Jose interviewed scholars
B. culture D. religion
and professionals.
A. Secondary source C. Primary source
9. Since all cultures need to solve the basic problems of
B. Full source D. None of the above
human existence, all cultures share certain cultural
universals such as
18. In Geography, the following are the distinct fields of
A. language and incest taboos
this discipline, except
B. the same set of ideas about marriage and kinship
A. Physical Geography C. Human Geography
C. food preferences
B. Artificial Geography D. Geomatics
D. the same laws to keep people under control
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19. According to the Greek philosopher Aristotle history 30. Public Administration is one of the current
came from the Greek word “historia” which means. applications of Political Science, public
A. Study of past C. Record of past administration is
B. Learning D. Record of facts A. The discipline which tackles the management and
implementation of government policies
20. The historical era dating from the 1400's to the B. The discipline which is responsible for the
1600's is called ? governance of a country or state
A. The Stone Age C. The Renaissance C. The discipline that deals with the development of
B. The Victorian Era D. The Iron Era state policies and regulations
D. The discipline that deals with the application of rules
21. It is a discipline which allows us to express and and policies
understand each other’s thoughts, ideas and
feelings. It is defined as “the institution whereby 31. Which among these studies, assesses and find
humans communicate and interact with each other treatment for people with psychological disorders.
by means of habitually used oral-auditory symbols” A. . Clinical psychology
A. Language C. Dialect B. Experimental psychology
B. Words D. Linguistics C. Developmental psychology
D. None of the above
22. Language is a social phenomenon.
A. True 32. Which of the following broad domains can be
B. False studied by psychologists?
A. Developmental processes
23. Which of these is not a level of language? B. Developmental processes
A. Phonology C. Grammar Biological bases of behavior
B. Running D. Semantics C. Cognitive and affective processes
D. Psychologists can study all of these domains
24. Which of these terms refers to the study of speech
sounds of a given language and their function within 33. Identify the FALSE statement from the below:
the sound system of that language? A. Developmental psychologists investigate age-related
A. Phonetics C. Phonology changes, such as those occurring during child
B. Syntax D. Morphology development and later life.
B. Clinical psychologists investigate the causes and
25. Which of these is the study of meaning of words, treatment of psychological disorders, such as
and the development of the meaning of words? homosexuality.
A. Morphemics C. Phonetics C. Physiological psychologists investigate the
B. Semantics D. Syntax association between physiology and
behaviour/mind, such as the neural correlates of
26. This discipline is the study of political power schizophrenia.
relations, behavior, and activities as well as system D. Cognitive psychologists investigate fundamental
of government from domestic, international, and mental processes, such as attention, memory and
comparative perspective. perception
A. Politics C. Political Science
B. Economics D. Law 34. Psychologists employ a variety of tools and methods
to study human behaviour. Which of the following
27. In Political Science, it can be describe as the concept methods do psychologists rely on to make
which means, the capacity to influence another, it systematic observations and draw conclusions about
may be a state, a non-state, or an individual actor human behaviour?
A. Power C. Leadership A. Generalisation and common sense
B. Politics D. President B. Hindsight and experimentation
C. Controlled measurement and experimentation
28. Which means of the government is to rule the D. Personal experience and collective wisdom
people.
A. Power C. Government 35. The study of psychology is most concerned with
B. Political D. Politics which field of scientific inquiry?
A. The science of philosophy
29. Which authority or bureaucracy provides the system B. The science of behaviour and mental processes
of rule over its territory and for its people. C. The science of developmental processes
A. Power C. Government D. The science of physical processes
B. Political D. Politics

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36. I-Demography is the study of human population and A. Talcott Parsons C. Herbert Simon
its trends. B. Robert Merton D. Jurgen Habernmas
II-It allows us to study the different aspects of people,
communities, and societies across borders. 44. Who is symbol of biological and emotional
A. Both statement are false connection to child?
B. The first statement is true, the second statement is A. Parents C. Friends
false B. Blood relatives D. Kinship
C. Both statements are true
D. the first statement is false, the second statement is 45. Social solidarity' explains social ties that bind group
true together such as
A. Kinship C. Shared location
37. This discipline was coined by Auguste Comte, which B. Religion D. All of above
inquires into social behavior and historical
development of social institution. 46. It is the conflict between entire classes over the
A. Social Science C. Sociology distribution of a society’s wealth and power
B. Society D. Demography A. Class conflict C. Societal conflict
B. Power conflict D. Wealth conflict
38. In Sociology, this is a concept which is defined as a
“group of people who share in one form or another 47. The unrecognized and unintended consequence of
distinct commonality any social pattern
A. Society C. Community A. Latent Function C. Latent Dysfunction
B. Barangay D. Culture B. Manifest Function D. Manifest Dysfunction

39. Which of the following is a manifest function of 48. Why do Marxist theorists criticize capitalism?
universities? A. Private ownership usually leads to the exploitation of
A. To prepare people for professional careers manual laborers
B. To provide opportunities for people to find their B. Family wealth offsets the natural social production
future spouses processes.
C. To give students enough time to exercise C. Enterprise requires resources that are only available
D. To maintain the economic status quo to government agencies
D. Most laborers do not possess the necessary skills to
40. Smithville Church is a training ground for community effectively run industries.
leaders and helps its members improve their
interpersonal skills. These are examples of the 49. How does the concept of unemployment function
church's according to Marxist theory?
A. manifest functions C. manifest dysfunctions A. Unemployment is used by capitalists to maintain low
B. latent functions D. latent dysfunctions wages for the working class
B. Unemployment is used by workers to demonstrate
41. What particular example structural functionalism the failures of a capitalist system.
focuses? C. Unemployment is used by business leaders as a
A. Family C. Friends means of controlling the levels of production.
B. Job D. Institutions D. Unemployment is used by the working class to limit
the powers of capitalist leaders
42. A framework for building theory that sees society as
a complex system whose parts work together to 50. An approach that sees society as the product of the
promote solidarity and stability? everyday interactions of individuals
A. Symbolic Interactionism A. Symbolic interactionism
B. Foundation of Education B. Structural Functionalism
C. Theories of Education C. Structuralism
D. Structural Functionalism D. Symbolism

43. Who developed structural functionalism in the

1930’s under the influence of the works of Max
Weber and Emilie Durkheim?

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