PRELIM EXAMINATION IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS

NAME: ________________________________GRADE/SECTION:____________________________SCORE:_____

STRICTLY NO ERASURES!
(ERASURE MEANS WRONG)
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read the following and ENCIRCLE the letter your answer.

1. It gives importance to the regulatory and governmental function to corporate, or business entities concerning the
national economy.
a. International relations
b. Government and Business
c. Comparative Government

2. This branch of anthropology analyzes social, political, and economic problems and develop solutions to respond
to present problems.
a. Applied
b. Biological
c. Cultural
d. Archaeology

3. It is a discipline in social science concerned primarily in state, government, and politics.

a. Natural science
b. Anthropology
c. Political science
d. Social science

4. It deals with the accumulation of principles identifying with the basis, structure, conduct, and operations of the
state.
a. Political theory
b. Public administration
c. Political dynamics
d. Legislatures and legislation

5. A branch of social science that deals with all aspects of human beings including their biological evolution and
social and cultural features that definitively distinguish humans from other animal species.
a. Political science
b. Anthropology
c. Sociology

6. According to him, the use of scientific methods to present the laws in which societies and individuals interact
would propel in a new “positivist” age of history.
a. Auguste Comte
b. Karl Marx
c. Max Weber

7. It deals with the communication’s origins, history, and contemporary variation.

a. Biological anthropology
b. Linguistic anthropology
c. Applied anthropology

8. He is considered as the Father of American Anthropology.

a. Franz Boas
b. Max Weber
c. Karl Marx

9. It tries to explain the process, composition, and organization of legislature.

a. Legislatures and legislation
b. International law
c. Political dynamics
10. According to Kroeber & Kluckhohn, it is a human group that includes their distinctive achievements and
embodiment in artifacts, traditional and historical ideas, and formation of values.
 a. Society
b. Politics
c. Culture

11. Culture through its elements is enjoyed by group of people who lived together. It also allows its members to
predict the behavior of other members but it is no assurance that they will think and act similarly.
a. Shared and Contested
b. Transmitted through socialization/enculturation
c. Requires language and other forms of communication

12. According to him, culture consists of experiences that are organized, learned or created by the individuals of a
population, including those images and images adding up their unique interpretations transmitted from the past
generations up to the future.
a. Schwartz
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Kroeber and Kluckhohn

13. They are norms that has a firm control to moral and ethical behavior.
a. Laws
b. Mores
c. Folkways

14. It refers to a form of communication using words either spoken or gestured with the hands and structured with
grammar, often with a writing system.
a. Values
b. Taboos
c. Language

15. The following are material culture, EXCEPT

a. Food
b. Symbols and language
c. Arts and technology
d. Clothing and fashion

16. It is systematic study of human relationship along with human society and interaction.
a. Sociology
b. Anthropology
c. Political science

17. It is the field of human knowledge that deals with all aspects of the group of life of human beings.
a. Social science
b. Natural science
c. Both A and B

18. He believed that societies developed and progressed because of the struggles of different social classes over the
means of production.
a. Max Weber
b. Karl Marx
c. Auguste Comte

19. He emphasized the role of rationalization in the development of society.

a. Max weber
b. Karl Marx
c. Auguste Comte

20. The following explain the facts about culture, EXCEPT

a. Culture produces tangible objects relevant to man such as instruments, tools, equipment, structures, and all
technological advancements.
b. Culture carry out meaning only through non-verbal communication
c. Culture determines outline of acceptable social behavior such as protocols, good manners, roles, and duties
established by folkways, mores, and laws.
21. It is the view that one’s own cultural elements such as norms, values, ideology, customs, and traditions are
dominant and superior to others.
a. Ethnocentrism
 b. Cultural relativism
c. Enculturation

22. The main objective in reducing your ethnocentrism is

a. To give up your own culture
b. To assimilate into someone else’s culture
c. To avoid assumption that your ethnicity is superior to all others

23. Choose the BEST listed definition of ethnocentrism:

a. Liking your own culture
b. Assuming that your culture is better than all other cultures
c. Thinking about your ethnicity before you take any action

24. Understanding female circumcision as a significant rite of passage for women as opposed to a kind of
mutilation is an example of _________.
a. ethnocentrism
b. cultural relativism
c. xenocentrism

25. All of these are characteristics of culture except that __.

a. it is learned
b. it is shared
c. it is stagnant
d. it is patterned

26. Believing that British people drive on the wrong side of the street is an example of __.
a. ethnocentric
b. xenocentrism
c. cultural relativism

27. It refers to an objective analysis of one’s own culture seeing and understanding of one’s beliefs and
traditions from his/her own point of view.
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Cultural relativism
c. Xenocentrism

28. Values, traditions, and beliefs are all examples of

a. non-material culture
b. popular culture
c. material culture

29. Which of the following would a cultural relativist not accept?

a. Different societies have different moral codes.
b. Individuals can be mistaken about what is morally required of them.
c. Some societies have better moral codes than others.
d. There are no objective moral standards.

30. Which of the following would a cultural relativist accept?

a. Morality is determined by the guiding ideals of a society.
b. Morality is determined by personal opinion.
c. There are no moral truths at all.
d. None of the above.
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