POLOMOLOK CREEK INTEGRATED SCHOOL

Purok Mabuhay, Brgy. Magsaysay, Polomolok, South Cotabato

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Name:_________________________________________________________Grade & Section:__________________

I. IDENTIFICATION. Identify the terms being referred to in the following statements. Write your
answer on the space provided.
______________________1. Government by a single person with absolute control over the resources of
the state.
______________________2. Government by the people, usually through elected representatives.
______________________3. Governmental system where the existing institutions are maintained,
emphasizing free-enterprise and minimal governmental intervention.
______________________4. Extreme leftwing ideology based on the revolutionary socialist teachings of
Marx. Collective ownership and a planned economy.
______________________5. Supreme political power is in the hands of one person whose decisions are
unregulated.
______________________6. The privilege of social class whose members possess a disproportionately
large percentage of society's wealth, prestige and political influence
______________________7. Society without government, laws, police or other authority. A system of
self-control.
______________________8. System where the rulers have unlimited control.
______________________9. is a set of ideas, beliefs, values, and opinions, exhibiting a recurring
pattern, that competes deliberately as well as unintentionally over providing plans of action for
public policy making in an attempt to justify, explain, contest, or change the social and political
arrangements and processes of a political community.
_______________________10. deals extensively with the analysis of political systems, the theoretical
and practical applications to politics, and the examination of political behavior.
_______________________11. He defined political science as the study of the state.
_______________________12. is the study of humans and the ways they live.
_______________________13. studies the ways groups of people interact with each other and how their
behavior is influenced by social structures, categories
_______________________14. The differences among the individuals on the basis of social
characteristics and qualities.
_______________________15. are interested in recovering the prehistory and early history of societies
and their cultures.
_______________________16. It is shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs
and understanding that are learned by socialization.
_______________________17. The relationship between an actual culture and its habitat is always an
intimate one, and therefore one finds a close correlation between kind of habitat and type of culture.
_______________________18. Appreciation of the relationship between culture and topographic area
_______________________19. It is process that makes continuity of culture possible.
_______________________20. It is a process that an individual, can create and weave a narrative
based on the materials, rules, and resources provided by social and cultural environment.

II. TRUE OR FALSE. Read each sentence carefully. Write T if the statement is RIGHT and write F if
the statement is WRONG. Write your answer on the space provided.

_____1. Acculturation is not just a one-way process in which social institutions and culture affect
the way you behave, feel, and think.
_____2. Socialization is a way of life shared by a group of people, including their ideas and traditions
and reflect the values and beliefs of groups in different ways.
_____3. Codes of etiquette regulate class structure by requiring individuals to conform to their
respective classes.
_____4. Society could not function without cultural norms that assist in governing behavior and
values, and culture could not exist without societal influences to create it.
_____5. Education in its broadest sense may properly be regarded as the process by which the
culture of a sociocultural system is impressed or imposed upon the plastic, receptive infant.
_____6. Man's oldest philosophy is Buddhism, the doctrine that everything is alive and possesses
mental faculties like those possessed by man.
_____7. In the human species individuals are equipped with fewer instincts than is the case in many
non-human species.
_____8. The relationship between an actual culture and its habitat is always an intimate one.
_____9. Sociological change occurs due to the diffusion of ideas from one society to another.
_____10. Cultural change sometimes causes a backlash from those with more traditional social
views.
_____11. In every culture that has been studied, women are considered more emotional and intuitive
than men.
_____12. Norms are abstract ideas about what a group believes to be good, right, and desirable.
_____13. For society to conduct itself appropriately, the individuals within it must possess varied
values and norms that differentiate each of the particular individuals from all others.
_____14. Folkways are the routine conventions of everyday life.
_____15. More symbolism includes rituals and symbolic behavior that serve as guidelines for
expected societal actions.
_____16. Cultural relativism is not really a vital tool in anthropology.
_____17. Behaviour cannot be compared to the culture and environment, showing how mores and
taboos came to be without judging those ethics.
_____18. According to Plato, man is the measure of all things of the things which are, that they are,
and of the things which are not, that they are not.
_____19. The concept of cultural relativism as we know and use it today was established as an
analytic tool by German-American anthropologist Franz Boas in the early 20th century.
_____20. Cultural Relativism warns us, quite rightly, about the danger of assuming that all of our
practices are based on some absolute rational standard.
_____21. Cultural Relativism begins with the insight that many of our practices are like this—they
are only cultural products.
_____22. Cultural relativism wrongly claims that each culture has its own distinct but equally valid
mode of perception, thought, and choice.
_____23. There is sometimes a strange notion that there are no commonalities between cultures.
_____24. The English term “relativism” came into usage only in the 18th Century.
_____25. Cultural relativism, the opposite of the idea that moral truth is universal and objective,
contends there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
_____26. Hunting and gathering societies is the oldest and most basic way of economic subsistence.
_____27. In the industrial society, human began to farm and domesticate animals.
_____28. Culture is the entire way of life for a group of people.
_____29. A symbol is a word, sign, or action that stands for something else.
_____30. Cultural evolution focuses on the progression of only modern cultures.
_____31. In horticultural societies, people use hoes and other simple hand tools to raise crops.
_____32. Symbol secures the preservation of the group.
_____33. Artifact is an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical
interest.
_____34. The development of agriculture led to an increase in social equality.
_____35. Status symbol relates to how individuals and groups interact and interpret various
cultural symbols.

III. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the correct answer in the following statements below. Write your
answers on the space provided.

______1. It refers to the totality of what man has learned as a member of society.
a. Sociology b. Anthropology c. Culture d. Psychology
______2. It is the systematic study of politics which Andrew Heywood describes as the activity
through which people, make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live.
a. Public Administration b. Sociology c. Political Science d. Politics
______3. It is "an attempt to reduce to something like measurable terms the grade and degrees of
understanding and intimacy which characterizes personal and social relations generally" the
measure of nearness or intimacy that an individual or group feels towards another individual or
group in a social network or the level of trust one group has for another and the extent of perceived
likeness of beliefs.
a. Social Distance b. Social Differences c. Stratification d. Functionalist Approach
______4. Which of the following best describe how anthropologists primarily learn new information
about humans?
a. field work b. laboratory experiments c. reading travelers accounts d. none of the above
______5. It is the ability or right to control people or things.
a. Regime b. Authority c. Power d. Politics
______6. It is derived from the Latin word "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or
cultivation and nurture.
a. Beliefs b. Culture c. Traditions d. Customs
______7. It is the changes in the culture of society.
a. Traditional Change b. Customs Change c. Charter Change d. Cultural Change
______8. It is a new perception of an aspect of reality that already exists.
a. Discovery b. Inventions c. Diffusions d. Acculturations
______9. It is the combination or new use of existing knowledge to produce something that did not
exist before.
a. Assimilations b. Inventions c. Diffusions d. Acculturations
______10. It is the spreading of cultural traits from group to another group.
a. Discovery b. Inventions c. Diffusions d. Assimilations
______11. It is the process of combination of two cultures in to one culture with comprising cultural
traits.
a. Assimilations b. Diffusions c. Inventions d. Discovery
______12. It is this process that makes continuity of culture possible.
a. Inheritance b. Genetics c. Socialization d. Education
______13. This is man’s oldest doctrine that everything is alive and possesses mental faculties like
those possessed by man: desire, will, purpose, anger, love, and the like.
a. Christianity b. Animism c. Islam d. Atheism
______14. According to sociologists, culture consists of;
a. values, beliefs, systems of language, communication
b. values, customs, traditions, religion
c. values, education, beliefs, norms
d. None of the above
______15. Why is Culture Important to Society?
a. Culture is constructed by society. A person cannot understand one without the other
because one shapes the other, the way people interact with one another and perceive their
environment is all part of culture.
b. Culture reflects the inner workings of an individual society.
c. Society could not function without cultural norms that assist in governing behaviour and
values, and culture could not exist without societal influences to create it.
d. All of the above

IV. MATCHING TYPE. Match Column A with Column B. Write your correct answers on the space
provided for each.

COLUMN A COLUMN B

_____1. Father of sociology and advocate of a. Emile Durkheim

positivism . b. Auguste Comte
_____2. Coined the term survival of the c. Talcott Parsons
fittest . d. Franz Boas
_____3. Father of Modern Anthropology . e. Herbert Spencer
_____4. An American sociologist who coined f. C. Wright Mills
the term sociological imagination . g. Peter Ludwig Berger
_____5. Coined the term social change . h. Max Weber

V. EXPLAINATION.
1. Differentiate socialism, communism and capitalism. (15 points)

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