Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Agusan del Sur
MARFIL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Marfil, Rosario, Agusan del Sur
SCHOOL ID NO: 304748

DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Name: ________________________________________ Date: _____________

Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. It defines how people relate to nature and their physical environment.

A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology

2. It always describes human, human behaviour and human societies around the world.
A. Sociology B. Anthropology C. Political Science D. Culture

3. It is a social science that deals with humans and their interactions.

A. Sociology B. Anthropology C. Political Science D. Culture

4. It is the study of human social relationships and institutions.

A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology

5. It is a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing.
A. Beliefs B. Customs C. Traditions D. Norms

6. This term means scientific study of man or human beings.

A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology

7. It refers to a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology.

A. Nature of politics C. Nature of culture
B. Nature of anthropology D. Nature of sociology

8. It attempts to explain how the social world operates.

A. Political theory C. Anthropological theory
B. Sociological theory D. Cultural theory

9. It is used to analyse and explain objects of social study, and facilitate organizing sociological knowledge.
A. Theoretical perspective C. Cultural perspective
B. Conflict perspective D. Functionalist perspective

10. It sees social life as a competition, and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality.
A. Theoretical perspective C. Cultural perspective
B. Conflict perspective D. Functionalist perspective

11. It is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the
standards of one's own culture.
A. Sociological view B. Culture C. Cultural relativism D. Society
12. It refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that shapes the way its members
understand the world.
A. Politics B. Society C. Political Science D. Culture

13. It is anything that is used to stand for something else.

A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language

14. Refers to a system of words and symbols used to communicate with other people.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language

15. It refers to valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to understand the past.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language

16. These are rules or expectations of behaviour and thoughts based on shared beliefs within a specific
cultural or social group.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language

17. Refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a cultures content and
structure.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological change

18. A variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization of sub groups within society.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological change

19. It is used to analyze and explain objects of social study, and facilitate organizing sociological knowledge.
A. Theoretical perspective C. Cultural perspective
B. Conflict perspective D. Functionalist perspective

20. It sees social life as a competition, and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality.
A. Theoretical perspective C. Cultural perspective
B. Conflict perspective D. Functionalist perspective

21. It is considered as a primary group and a basic unit in a

society.
a. peers b. family c. teachers d. Facebook friends

22. The theory refers to a socialization that may occur between infancy to
adolescence.
a. Cognitive Development Theory b. Moral Development Theory
c. Theory of Social Self d. Psychoanalytic Theory

23. It pertains to violation of society’s norm.

a. social control b. deviance c. civil obedience d. RA 9165

24. A systematic means and practices used to maintain society’s norms, rules and
laws; regulate conflict; and discourage deviant behaviour.
a. human rights c. civil Disobedience
b. self-identity d. Social Control

25. Refers to persons, groups, and institutions that interact with individuals to
participate in the society.
a. agents of socialization c. social standard
b. social role d. social process

26. Which of the following is a deviant behavior?

a. socialite b. religious c. indigent d. drug addict

27. Which of the following is a false statement pertaining to socialization?

a. Socialization may happen in organizations that maintain social control.
b. Socialization happens when existing social roles are changed.
c. In socialization processes, it’s very difficult to established our own identities.
d. Learning new norms and values may occur later in life.

28. It connotes an unacceptable behavior.

a. deviancy c. informal sanctions
b. civil obedience d. social control

29. Which of the following social organization that inhibits social control?
a. military b. violence c. child abuse d. rebellion

30.Which of the following is the example of a formal sanction in the society?

a. discipline b. rule of law c. gossip d. social standard

IDENTIFICATION: Identify what is asked from the choices inside the box.
Network group Secondary group
Workplace Reference group
Social group Out-group
In-group Primary group
Preference group Family

__________31. A collection of individuals who have relations with one another to

make them interdependent to some significant degree.
__________32. A small, intimate and a less specialized group.
__________33. A group which has a strong influence on an individual’s belief, values,
behavior and attitude.
__________34. A structure of relationship which has an interconnections, ties,
linkages between people and the larger social institutions like social
media
__________35. A group to which a person belongs and with which he or he feels a
sense of identity
__________36. A group to which one does not belong and to which he or she may feel
a sense of competitiveness
__________37. A necessary condition that exist within social groups because the
members able to share common values and principles
__________38. A larger group, less intimate and more specialized engaged in
impersonal and objective-oriented Relationship for a limited time
__________39. An example of a secondary group
__________40. A basic primary social group

41. Kinship refers to those relationships found in all societies

that______________.
a. is based on blood c. includes affinal relatives
b. includes consaguineal relatives d. all of the above

42. Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists spent a great deal of time studying
kinship because they have:
a. always focused largely on biological relationships.
b. concentrated mainly on a small-scale society where kinship relations tend to be
important.
c. always studied fictional relationships.
d. concentrate on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important.

43. A kinship diagram of a son, father, grandfather, and great grandfather would include
________.
a. affinal relatives c. two genders
b. collateral relatives d. bilineal relatives

44.The system of acknowledge social parentage; which varies from society to society.
a. descent b. kinship c. dynasty d. parental role

45. In bilateral descent, individuals

a. are members of the kinship group their parents have selected for them.
b. is equally related to both the mother’s and the father’s side of the family.
c. trace descent from both a patrilineage and a matrilineage.
d. can choose with which side of the family they wish to affiliate.

46. An organized political community that is living under a single system of government
which governs a large population, with a hierarchy of differing political positions and the
power to enforce decisions
a. State b. chiefdom c. band d. society

47. A kind of family structure composed of spouses and their children from a previous
marriage.
a. Extended b. reconstituted c. single d. nuclear

48. Also known as a politics of kinship is ____

a. political dynasty c. political structure
b. political stratification d. political arena

49. A relationship with other people through blood kinship ties based is ____
a. Consanguineous kinship b. patrilineal c. polyandry d. polygyny

50. A descent based on a female line.

a. patrilineal b. bilineal c. matrilineal d. lineal