BCNHS

Understanding Culture,
Society and Politics
Quarter 1 - Summative 1

Week 1: Analyze Social, Political,

and Cultural Change

Week 2: Recognize the common concerns

or intersections of anthropology, sociology,
and political science with respect to the
phenomenon of change
Directions: Choose the correct answer 5. Your eighty-three-year-old
out of the given options. Write the letter grandmother has been using a cell
that correspond your answer to your phone for some time now. As a way to
answer sheet. keep in touch, you frequently send
emails of a few lines to let her know
1. One of the sources of cultural about your day. She calls after every
change that produce new products, email to respond point by point, but
ideas and social patters. What term she has never emailed a response back.
is this? This can be viewed as an example of
A. Discovery __________.
B. Environment A. Culture lag
C. Invention B. Discovery
D. Social institutions C. Diffusion
D. Invention
2. This is the change that occurs in the
realm of civil and political societies and 6. Cultural diffusion is BEST described as
in the structure relations among civil __________.
society and the state. A. learning a foreign language
A. Political Bureaucracy B. sharing music from one culture to
B. Political Change another
C. Political Power C. the spreading of religion from one
D. Political Will culture to another
D. spreading of ideas, languages,
3. The end goal of this social science and customs from one culture to
discipline is to understand humans and another
cultures across history through
developing and testing hypotheses 7. Which of the following option is a
about human behavior, both past and consequence of cultural diffusion?
present. A. New jobs
A. Anthropology B. New types of clothing styles
B. Philosophy C. Loss of culture or cultural
C. Political Science characteristics
D. Sociology A. Sharing of cultural
identity/language/traditions
4. It examines social rules and processes
that bind and separate people from 8. The awareness that allows people to
each other, from their peers, from their comprehend the link between their
groups, and from the institutions where immediate, personal social settings and
they belong. the remote, impersonal social world is
A. Anthropology called __________.
B. Sociology A. Anthropological wandering
C. Philosophy B. Political maneuvering
D. Political Science C. Sociological imagination
D. Sociological perspective
9. The following best recognize the
relationship of sociology and
anthropology EXCEPT one. Which of the
following?
A. Aims to acquire in-depth
information about an individual.
B. Are social sciences areas,
interested in the study of social
issues.
C. Attempt to understand the way
of life of various culture or society.
D. Serve as guidelines to analyze
and test theories about human
behavior and society.
10. An example of diffusion with
negative effects would be the spread
of diseases like AIDS, Bubonic Plague,
and COVID-19. How will you identify its
type of diffusion?
A. Common Cultural Diffusion
B. Cultural Diffusion in Technology
C. Economic Cultural Diffusion
D. Religious Cultural Diffusion
11. McDonald’s is found in almost
every country around the world is an
example of __________.
A. Diffusion
B. Globalization
C. Innovation
D. Modernization
12. If you are the President of a country,
how will use your reward power?
A. Giving of rewards and benefits to
the follower
B. Possessing some special
knowledge or expertise
C. Attracting followers through the
follower’s liking/admiring
D. Using threats, punishment, and
force for the non-compliance of
command
13. Which of the following statements
below BEST exemplifies enculturation?
A. Joey speaks Kamayo to most of
his friends.
B. Mary Ann wears Igorot attire in the
classroom.
C. Rigner starts to speak Mandarin
with his Chinese friends.
D. Jenny insisted that Mother Tongue
must be the language in the
classroom.
14. Physical anthropologist studies
__________.
A. Humans as a biological species
B. The cultures of the human species
C. The fragile remains of past cultures
D. Language as a human
characteristics
15. Which field of anthropology would
most likely be interested in the marriage
patterns and kinship systems of different
societies around the world?
A. Cultural
B. Linguistic
C. Physical
D. Social
16. Social Distancing caused by
COVID-19 prohibits temporarily shaking
hands, touching faces, “beso-beso”,
and other greetings with physical
involvement. One dilemma will be in
the countries where these are
considered to be part of their system.
Hence, this social distancing initially
and directly caused __________.
A. Cultural change
B. Economic change
C. Political change
D. Social change
17. Which of the following factors affect
social change?
A. Diffusion, invention, population
B. Association, integration,
socialization
C. Environment, population,
technology
D. Social inventions, random events,
war
19. Which of the following is a social
science discipline that problematizes
the unjust results of the exercise power
and not the arrangements of power
relations itself however unequal?
A. Anthropology
B. Philosophy
C. Political Science
D. Sociology

18. Fred is an American who lived in 20. Researchers who study humans by
China for three years. When he residing in particular societies and
returned to the United States he felt observing the behaviors of the people
more comfortable eating with are __________.
chopsticks than a fork. He has A. Archaeologists
experienced a process called B. Ethnographers
___________. C. Linguists
A. Acculturation D. Paleoanthropologists
B. Association
C. Enculturation
D. Socialization