Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV-A (CALABARZON)
Division of Batangas City
ALANGILAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Alangilan, Batangas City

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

CHAPTER TEST

General Directions:
1. Read and follow the directions carefully.
2. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
3. Erasures are not allowed.
4. Use black or blue pen permanent ink only.
5. Anyone who will be caught cheating in any form will automatically make his/ her test invalid.

I. TRUE OR FALSE
Directions: Write T if the given statement is true
and F if it is false.
1. Concepts are linguistic tools used by social
scientists to explore the social world.
2. Social change may be a product of technological
change.
3. Values shape our behavior more than our
attitude.
4. Our social categories such as being male or
female, single or married, or rich or poor shape the
way we see and interpret the social world.
5. Values may change over time but they can be
durable and withstand forces that can cause them
to change.
6. Values may often manifest in beliefs.
7. A concept may beget smaller concepts.
8. Beliefs are firmly held opinions or conviction.
9. An inherent feature of social change is violent
actions.
10. Social actions and interactions are governed by
unseen rules of society.
11. A person’s sex dictates what he/she can and
cannot expect in life.
12. Each social science has a unique take on what
constitutes social life. These takes are mutually
exclusive and are therefore irreconcilable.
13. If power and its exercise are the objects of
interest of political science, then anthropology
cannot be used to study power relations.
14. Cultures around the world are different;
therefore they are not equal.
15. Sociology was born during the Industrial
Revolution.
20. Defined by the very categories that we possess,
the categories assigned to us by the society at
large.
21. It determines the set of opportunities and life
chances a person can expect in life.
22. He argued that individuals can still transcend
the limitations posed by their respective social
locations.
23. An ever-present and enduring feature of all
known cultures around the world.
24. The systematic study of government and
politics.
25. It is used to indicate the changes that take
place in human interactions and interrelations.
26. It is consists of the efforts to promote, inhibit, or
redirect social, political, economic, or environmental
issues.
27. This social science discipline takes account of
the “equal but different ways” of how people live in
the world.
28. A quality of the mind that enables its possessor
to grasp the intersection of biography and history.
29. A system of giving rewards for important tasks
performed.
30. It focuses on the “everywhere-ness” of social
forces in unlikely forms.
III. ENUMERATION
Directions: Enumerate the following:
31-33. Disciplines of Social Science
34-37. The first set of sociologists
38-40. They produced the foundational principles of
symbolic interactionism

II. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Identify the terms being referred to in
each item.
16. He is credited to be the Father of Sociology.
17. It encompasses the complex processes and
dynamics that characterize the great variety of
“ways of living” practiced and observed around the
world.
18. These are a person’s or a collectivity’s
principles or standards of behavior and are
considered as judgement of what is important in
life. Prepared by:
19. It refers to a firmly held opinion or conviction, Ms. MARY ANNE E. RAMOS
regardless of the lack of verifiable evidence. Teacher I