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Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences
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I. Select the letter of the correct answer.

1. It encourages women to be aware of their subordination in the society, and do something to

promote gender equality.
a. Feminist Theory b. Hermeneutic phenomenology
c. Human-environment systems d. none of the above
2. Who is the greatest Filipino social thinker in the 19th century?
a. Jose Rizal b. Claro M. Recto c. Apolinario Mabini d. Pedro Paterno
3. It defines as the theory that views institutions as humanly devised forces that construct political
economic and social interactions.
a. New Institutionalism b. Formal Institutionalism c. Old Institutionalism d. Institutionalism
4. Which institutionalism that refers to an interaction of various institutions within society and how
the dynamics, rules and norms determine the behavior and actions of every individual?
a. New Institutionalism b. Formal Institutionalism
c. Old Institutionalism d. Old Institutionalism
5. Which is considered as the brain/conscience of the revolution?
a. Jose Rizal b. Claro M. Recto c. Apolinario Mabini d. Pedro Paterno
6.Who criticized the friar’s ownership of large tracts of haciendas and demanded for agrarian
reform for the Filipino farmers?
a. Jose Rizal b. Claro M. Recto c. Apolinario Mabini d. Isabelo delos Reyes
7. Which institutionalism that refer to those officially stablish often by the government?
a. New Institutionalism b. Formal Institutionalism
c. Old Institutionalism d. Old Institutionalism
8. Which analyses the state of women and men in society as a contemporary sociological
perspective?
a. Feminist theory b. Sex c. Gender d. Hemeneutics
9.Who declared that the salvation of the country’s nationalism can only be achieved if Filipinos will
learn to assert the nationalistic virtues practiced by our heroes, and implement policies on
nationalist industrialization?
a. Jose Rizal b. Claro M. Recto c. Apolinario Mabini d. Isabelo delos Reyes
10. His works highlighted that Filipinos have culture and identity long before the arrival of the
Spaniards in the Philippine archipelago. Who was that hero?
a. Jose Rizal b. Claro M. Recto c. Apolinario Mabini d. Pedro Paterno
11. Which refers to the biological differences between males and females?
a. Feminist theory b. Sex c. Gender d. Hemeneutics
12. Which refers to the sociological attributes associated with being a man and a woman and the
different roles that society assigns to men and women?
a. Feminist theory b. Sex c. Gender d. Hemeneutics
13. I am one of the founders of Katipunan that aimed to overthrow the Spanish colonial regime in
the country. He was also a contributor of the newspaper of the movement viewing the cultural
identity of the precolonial natives and his ideals of a new nation. Who am I?
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a. Emilio Jacinto b. Andres Bonifacio c. Apolinario Mabini d. Pedro Paterno

14.Which is called “the Brain of the Katipunan”?
a. Emilio Jacinto b. Claro M. Recto c. Apolinario Mabini d. Pedro Paterno
15. Which refers to the art of understanding and the theory of interpretation?
a. Feminist theory b. Sex c. Gender d . Hemeneutics
16. What is the science of Phenomena?
a. Sociology b. Psychology c. Phenomenology d. Archeology
17. What emphasizes on the study of ethnicity, society, culture, and its application to historical,
anthropological, and psychological research and practice using indigenous knowledge?
a. History c. Indigenization of social sciences
b. Anthropology d. Psychology
18. Which is not included among these Filipino eminent intellectuals pioneered the use of Filipino
perspective in the social sciences in the 1970s?
a.Virgilio G. Enriquez b. Prospero R. Covar c. Jose Rizal d. Zeus A. Salazar
19. Who is the wing-footed messenger of God’s in Greek mythology?
a. Hermes b. Gabriel c. Michael d. Cupid
20. It is concerned with making the unconscious conscious in order to understand how people
behave in society.
a. Institutionalism b. Rational Choice Theory c. Psychoanalysis d. None of the above
21.Who is considered as the Father of Sikolohiyang Pilipino?
a.Virgilio G. Enriquez b. Prospero R. Covar c. Jose Rizal d. Zeus A. Salaz
22.What is a Filipino value that accepts and deals with other persons as equals?
a. Pakikilahok b. Pakikisalamuha c. Pakikitungo d. Pakikipagkapwa
23. It assumes that society is made up of individuals who always make logical decisions that provide
them with the greatest benefit at the lowest cost.
a. Institutionalism b. Rational Choice Theory c. Psychoanalysis d. None of the above
24. It views society as made up of individuals who are influenced by institutions, who are also
humanly created constraints that shape political, economic, and social institutions.
a. Institutionalism b. Rational Choice Theory c. Psychoanalysis d. None of the above
25.Which is not a criticisms of Sikolohiyang Pilipino?
a. Its popular use outside the country. UNICEF adapts it in the program framework for its
trauma programs.
b. The promotion of divisiveness rather than unity among Filipino scholars
c. Its theoretical problem. It failed to explain clearly its methodological bases of Filipino
psychology.
d. Its narrative, its obsession with merely being reactive to the western psychological
constructs and discourse
26.Which is considered as the Father of Pantayong Pananaw?
a. Dr. Prospero Covar b. Dr. Vergilio Enriquez c. Dr. Zeus Zalazar d. None of the above
27. Which is not a strength of Psychoanalysis?
a) It is too subjective that focuses on individual experiences.
b) It makes a case study method popular in social sciences, especially in psychology.
c) It highlights the importance of childhood in personality development.
d) It provides the foundation for the new psychotherapy techniques.
28. Which is not a strength of Rational Choice Theory?
a. The difficulty encountered by individuals to make decisions in case of inadequate
information and uncertainty
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b. This is the most general theory of social action which can be used to understand all
human behavior (Ogu, 2013)
c. It is a principle to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with fewest
possible assumptions.
d. The decision of individual depends on the structures and assumptions.
29.Which is not a strength of Pantayong Pananaw?
a. The first framework advocating a nationalist perspective
primarily by the use of Filipino as language of discourse
b. The bridging gap between the
masses and the elite, the Great Cultural Divide.
b. The most advanced in terms of theory and the most productive in terms of research out
within the field of Filipino social science perspective
d.The language-based framework, its advocacy of using Filipino language as language of
historical discourse
30. Which refers to the practice of accepting the decision of the leader or the majority of the group
so that it will appear that the person’s decision is undivided?
a. Pakikitungo b. Pakikisama c. Pakikisangkot d. Pakikialam
31. Which is not a strength of Institutionalism?
a) Historical institutionalism – its inability to offer a refined comprehension of how
institutions affect human behavior.
b) Rational choice institutionalism – its emphasis on the role of deliberate interaction
in determining political results; explains how institutions originate; and explains why
certain institutions continue to exist
c) Sociological institutionalism – its broader definitions of institutions that involve
informal and formal rules, norms and conventions; claims that formal and informal
institutions comprise actors which in turn shape the way they view the world
d) Historical institutionalism – its broader definition of institutions which include both
formal and informal ones; its focus on the efforts of institutions overtime; explains
how a particular set of institutions can influence the behavior of the actors who
created them
32. Which is not a criticism of Psychoanalysis?
a) It provides the foundation for the new psychotherapy techniques.
b) It is too subjective that focuses on individual experiences.
c) It is too deterministic that focuses on the hidden forces of individuals.
d) It is lack of empirical evidence to support the theory’s complex nature

33. Which is not a criticism of Rational Choice Theory?

a) It is a principle to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with fewest
possible assumptions.
b) The difficulty encountered by individuals to make decisions in case of inadequate
information and uncertainty.
c) The difficulty of explaining macro level structures and institutions simply from the
models of individual social action.
d) The rational choice assumption that almost everything humans do is rational is
problematic, since not all human actions are rational.
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34. Which is not a criticism of Institutionalism?

a) Rational choice institutionalism – its emphasis on the role of deliberate interaction
in determining political results; explains how institutions originate; and explains why
certain institutions continue to exist
b) Rational choice institutionalism – its claim that rationality is the basic factor of
human choice in all undertakings
c) Sociological institutionalism – its focus on macro-level analysis
d) Historical institutionalism – its inability to offer a refined comprehension of how
institutions affect human behavior.
35. Which refers to the respectful or polite manner of presenting a serious subject or an unkind
opinion or request?
a. Euphimism b. Absolutism c. Criticism d. Feminism
36. What is a special defense against severe interpersonal unpleasantness; manifested by being
sensitive to personal pursuit; being sensitive not for the attainment of social acceptance but to
retain one’s social acceptance that he/she already has?
a. Humility b. Self-esteem c. Pride d. Self- confidence
37. It asserts that historical phenomena are interpreted differently in proper context through one’s
consciousness.
a. Feminist Theory b. Hermeneutic phenomenology
c. Human-environment systems d. none of the above
38. Its focus on how humans and the environment are related, and how people can transform the
environment for sustainability.
a. Feminist Theory encourages b. Hermeneutic phenomenology
c. Human-environment systems d. none of the above
39. He is from University of Santo Thomas, who also developed the Pilipinohiya.
a. Dr. Prospero Covar b. Dr. Vergilio Enriquez c. Dr. Zeus Zalazar d. None of the above
40. Who is the Thinker of Pilipinolohiya?
a. Dr. Prospero Covar b. Dr. Vergilio Enriquez c. Dr. Zeus Zalazar d. None of the above

Prepared by: DIONISIO R. BARRIENTOS

Subject teacher

Checked by: Noted by:

LEILANIE D. AÑONUEVO PhD JONNEDEL A. BAQUIRAN EdD

MT-I, ABM SGH Asst. SHS Principal for Academics