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BASIC EDUCATION UNIT

PAASCU LEVEL III ACCREDITED
ISO CERTIFIED

GENERAL QUIZ 2: UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Name: _________________________ Grade & Section: ______________ Date: _____________ Score: __________

I. Read and analyze the following questions/items carefully. Supply each item the correct answer needed. You are only
given FEW minutes to answer each item. Write your answer/s on the space provided after the item.

1. An analysis of social life that focuses on the broad features of the society. It assumes that society’s larger
structures shape those interacting individuals. __________________________
2. Considered as the most acceptable point of view/truth that projects the realities of life. It can also be viewed as
the guide to bind the society as a whole. ___________________________
3. It studies the chronological record of important events in the past, including those about people and places.
_________________________
4. Refers to the observable or intended functions that are consciously and deliberately designed to be beneficial in
its effect on society. ________________________
5. This is a decision by which the members of the society agree together and/to develop oneness to pursue such
common goal. ______________________
6. It suggests that society is composed of individual units whose actions has a particular meaning based from
interpretation. ____________________
7. A group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status. ________________
8. It is the conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and
reflecting opposed interests. _____________________
9. These are the visual images projected by our mind that has a particular description or meaning. ______________
10. A sociological research method that involves examining any materials from the past that contain information of
sociological interest. ____________________
11. A research method that tend to rely on detailed examination of subject of study, as well as its related contextual
conditions. _______________________
12. It is considered the guiding principles that binds the research about his/her moral acts in the research field.
_____________________
13. It is the process of putting meaning to social actions based from sociological interpretation. ______________
14. It is the scientific study of how people’s thought, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined,
or implied presence of others. ________________
15. It concerns resolving social problems through the findings of pure sociological research. _________________
16. Refers to the process of holding society together or united. _______________
17. This refers to the society that is bind by values, beliefs and social traditions. ______________________
18. It pertains to a category, class or group of objects, things or persons with particular character that seems to be
the best among all. __________________
19. “One that is not consciously intended, but that, nonetheless, has a beneficial effect to the society.”
__________________
20. The individuals respond to people and things based on the interpretations he or she gives to those people or
thing. __________________
II. TRUE or FALSE: Read and analyze each of the following statement. Write T if the statement presents factual idea
and write F if the statement presents incorrect idea.

21. Conflict theory believes that society is relatively integrated whole. _____________
22. Dysfunction can lead to social change, because it requires social stability to adapt and adjust to social phenomena
that is happening in a society. _______________
23. In conflict theory, social order can only be maintained through the process of coercion whereby social order is
imposed by the powerful groups over the weak. ___________
24. In 1893, the first Department of Sociology was established at the University of Canada. _______________
25. Demography is a discipline that is concerned with the physical environment and distribution of plants and animals
in a particular space/area. _____________
26. There are two levels of sociological perspective: it is the macro-perspective and the micro-perspective. _________
27. Structural functionalist theory believes that all structures in the society holds specific functions and roles that
benefit other structures. _____________
28. Symbolic Interactionist Theory believes that a society is continually subjected to change. ______________
29. Herbert Blumer is considered the co-advocator of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. ___________
30. In research, behaving ethically involves doing the right thing at the right time. ____________

III. MATCHING TYPE: Match the terms from Column A with the definitions/description in the Column B. Choose the
option/s that best suits the terms on Column A. Write only the letter of the correct answer on the space provided.

A B
1. Herbert Spencer A. Focused on the problems caused by the imbalance of power
among social classes most especially to the black races.
2. Emile Durkheim B. “Father of Sociology”
3. Functionalism C. A German Philosopher and a Revolutionary Socialist
4. Latent Function D. Focuses on the study of modernization and urbanization
5. Jane Addams E. “Ideal Type Model”
6. W.E.B Dubois F. Observable or Obvious in nature
7. August Comte G. Regarded as the founder of the French School of Sociology
8. Harriet Martineau H. Using symbols to maintain connections
9. Karl Marx I. Underscores the significance of races in America, most especially
the racial discriminations about the black Americans
10. Max Weber J. Unintended positive consequence
K. Symbolic Interactionist Theory
L. Coercion
M. Conceptualize the idea of Social Darwinism
N. First Women Sociologist
O. Oneness is secured by social consensus.

Note: Answers must be in UPPERCASES.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

“DO IT IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER.”