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LANTAPAN STAND-ALONE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
Name: _________________________ Grade & Section:______________________
Teacher:_________________________ Score: ______________________________

I. Multiple Choice: Encircle the corresponding letter of the correct answer.

1. The complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, custom, and any other capabilities and
habits acquired, shared and transmitted by man as a member of society.
a) Culture b) Society c) Politics d) Power
2. An organized groups of interdependent people who share a common territory, language, and culture, and who act
together for collective survival and well-being.
a) Culture b) Society c) Politics d) Power
3. It refers to the “theory, art, and practice of government”
a) Culture b) Society c) Politics d) Power
4. The branch of government that are tasked to interpret laws in accordance with a society’s standards and norms.
a) Executive b) Legislative c) Senate d) Judiciary
5. It refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same privileges due to inherited wealth and/or the
occupational status of the breadwinner in the household.
a) Gender b) Sex c) Ethnicity d) Socio-economic Status
6. The expression of the set of cultural ideas held by a distinct ethnic or indigenous group.
a) Gender b) Sex c) Ethnicity d) Socio-economic Status
7. An organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural, along with associated ceremonial or
ritualistic practices by which people try to interpret or influence aspects of the universe.
a) Religion b) Sex c) Ethnicity d) Socio-economic Status
8. The legal relationship that binds a person and a country. It allows the state to have jurisdiction over a person.
a) Religion b) Exceptionality c) Ethnicity d) Nationality
9. This serve as guides or models of behavior which tell us what is proper or improper, appropriate or inappropriate,
right or wrong.
a) Norms b) Values c) Norms of Decency d) Norms of Conventionality
10. One of the most adhered norms and is commonly exhibited on the type of clothing a person wears in a specific
occasions and the use of appropriate words and gestures that convey politeness and courtesy.
a) Norms b) Values c) Norms of Decency d) Norms of Conventionality
11. The beliefs and practices that are acceptable to certain cultures but can be inimical to other cultures.
a) Norms b) Values c) Norms of Decency d) Norms of Conventionality
12. Is the state of having internalized norms as part of the social expectation.
a) Conformity b) Deviance c) Conventional d) Formal Deviance
13. The forms of behavior that are relatively or distinctly set away from a norm and also called non-conformity.
a) Conformity b) Deviance c) Conventional d) Formal Deviance
14. It refers to violations to social norms that are not codified into law, such as pricking one’s nose, belching loudly, and
spitting on the street, among others.
a) Conformity b) Deviance c) Informal Deviance d) Formal Deviance
15. It refers to variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization, sub-groups within a society, or of the
entire society itself.
a) Social Change b) Cultural Change c) Political Change d) Inventions
16. The new combination or a new use of existing knowledge. It produces mechanical objects, ideas, and social patterns
that reshape society to varying degrees.
a) Discovery b) Diffusion c) Association d) Invention
17. This takes place when people reorganize existing elements of the world they had not notice before or learned to
see in a new way.
a) Discovery b) Diffusion c) Association d) Integration
18. It refers to the spread of culture traits from one group to another. It creates changes as cultural elements spread
from one society to another through trade, migration and mass communication.
a) Discovery b) Diffusion c) Association d) Integration
19. The establishment of connection with other culture thereby bridging areas of convergence and cultural symbiosis.
a) Discovery b) Diffusion c) Association d) Integration
20. The total assimilation of culture as manifested by change of worldviews, attitudes, behavior, and perspective of
looking things.
a) Discovery b) Diffusion c) Association d) Integration
21. Includes all categories of change in the direction of open, participatory, and accountable politics. It is the change
that occurs in the realm of civil and political societies.
a) Social Change b) Cultural Change c) Political Change d) Inventions
22. It refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a culture’s content and structure.
a) Social Change b) Cultural Change c) Political Change d) Inventions
23. It is the study of human beings and their ancestors. It produces knowledge about what makes people different from
one another and what they all share in common.
a) Anthropology b) Psychology c) Sociology d) Biology
24. A sub-field of anthropology that focus on humans as biological organisms--tracing evolutionary development and
looking at biological variations.
a) Physical Anthropology b) Cultural Anthropology c) Archeology d) Linguistic Anthropology
25. A sub-field of anthropology that investigates the contrasting ways people think, feel, and behave.
a) Physical Anthropology b) Cultural Anthropology c) Archeology d) Linguistic Anthropology
26. The body of knowledge relating to the study of the state and government.
a) Political Science b) Politics c) Anthropology d) Sociology
27. The science of society and social behavior, which is viewed as an aggregate of individuals. It seeks to discover the
general principle underlying all social phenomena and social relationships.
a) Political Science b) Politics c) Anthropology d) Sociology
28. The thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and rules component of culture.
a) Ideas b) Activities c) Artifacts d) Language
29. The dynamic component of culture. It is what people do as opposed to what they believe and feel.
a) Ideas b) Activities c) Artifacts d) Language
30. It is the primary means of capturing, communicating, discussing, changing and passing shared understandings to
new generations. It is considered the important part, “the soul” of culture.
a) Ideas b) Activities c) Artifacts d) Language
31. The view that one’s own group is superior compared to others, using their own values and norms as yardsticks in
measuring the folkways and values of others.
a) Ethnocentrism b) Anthropocentrism c) Xenocentrism d) Cultural Relativism
32. The view that cultures must be viewed and analyzed on their own terms, in the context of their own societal
setting.
a) Ethnocentrism b) Anthropocentrism c) Xenocentrism d) Cultural Relativism
33. It consists of abstractions tat include knowledge, beliefs, values, rules for behavior, traditional skills and
technologies, religious ceremonies, performing arts, and storytelling.
a) Tangible Culture b) Intangible Culture c) Sensory Culture d) Ideal Culture
34. It focuses on the formation of new species and on the evolutionary relationship between groups and species.
a) Macroevolution b) Speciation c) Microevolution d) Species
35. The earliest ancestors of humans which were bipedals but had small brain-size in proportion to their bodies.
a) Hominoids b) Primates c) Australopithecus d) Anthropoids
36. It is considered the very first civilization that flourished approximately 4500 to 6000 years ago.
a) Sumeria b) Mesopotamia c) Babylonia d) Lagash
37. The emergence of social classes manifested in the special status and privilege accorded to people according to the
kind of work they did or the family into which they were born.
a) Agricultural Innovation b) Social Stratification c) Democratization d) Central Government
38. It is the building of political institutions, common interests, and new forms of legitimation. It also considered the
peak of civilizations’ evolution.
a) Agricultural Innovation b) Social Stratification c) Democratization d) Central Government
39. It occurs knowledge is passed on to the next bearer who will perpetuate and ensure the continuance of their
tradition and practices.
a) Enculturation b) Socialization c) Diffusion d) Association
40. It takes place when prospective culture bearers learn their culture’s body of knowledge and skills through education
or conscientization, training, exposure, and experience.
a) Enculturation b) Socialization c) Diffusion d) Association
41. A person’s socialization with individuals or groups allows him or her to imbibe certain characteristics and interests
that contribute to his being as a person.
a) Identity Formation b) Values c) Status d) Role
42. These are the standards or criteria on which people base their judgments regarding behaviors and decisions.
 a) Identity Formation b) Values c) Status d) Role
43. It is any position that an individual can occupy in society that implies certain roles that must be performed.
a) Identity Formation b) Values c) Status d) Role
44. A status that is acquired willfully and consciously through effort, talent, decisions, and accomplishments.
a) Achieved Status b) Ascribed Status c) Natured Status d) Nurtured Status
45. One of the components of norms that are often taken very seriously by society and sometimes codified as laws.
a) Mores b) Values c) Norms d) Conventions
46. This theory of social control states how members of society label others as deviant when they defy or do not
conform to social norms
a) Labeling Theory b) Gossip c) Strain Theory d) Rebellion
47. It is a mechanism of social control that involves talking behind someone’s back and punishes the deviants by putting
them to shame
a) Labeling Theory b) Gossip c) Strain Theory d) Rebellion
48. This theory states that deviant behavior occurs when people experience tension when culture imposes goals that
individuals should achieve, but the society makes it hard for them to meeting such goals in legitimate manner.
a) Labeling Theory b) Gossip c) Strain Theory d) Rebellion
49. It is a reaction of members of society to strains whereby individuals challenge the existing culturally accepted goals
by coming up with new ones and also challenge the prescribed means in achieving cultural goals.
a) Labeling Theory b) Gossip c) Strain Theory d) Rebellion
50. It is a unit of people who interact with some regularity, and identify themselves as a unit.
a) Group b) Society c) Reference Group d) Peer Group

II. Essay: Answer and explain each question in 3-5 sentences.

1. How can we mitigate the negative effects of ethnocentrism as an approach of viewing cultures?

2. Can society exist without culture? Why or why not?

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GOD BLESS!

PREPARED BY: CHECKED BY:

WILAR L. LOFRANCO ANGELITO C. SIERAS
SHS TEACHER II ASST. SHS PRINCIPAL II