Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Schools Division of Toledo City
BATO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
ACTIVITY SHEET-QUARTER 3
Name of Learner: ____________________________________________ Grade Level & Section: ______________________
Subject: UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY & POLITICS Module: 3 & 4

TEST I – CLASSIFY ME!

Direction: Classify the following symbols and practices as SOCIAL SYMBOL, CULTURAL SYMBOL,
POLITICAL SYMBOL, and ECONOMIC SYMBOL accordingly. Write your answer on the space provided.

________________________ 1. _________________________ 6.

________________________ 2. _________________________ 7.

___________________________ 3. ____________________________ 8.

___________________________ 4. ____________________________ 9.

___________________________ 5. ____________________________ 10.

TEST II – DEFINE ME!

Direction: Identify the correct answer based on the given definition. Write your answer on the space
provided.

____________________________ 1. Is when something represents abstract ideas or concepts.

____________________________ 2. Is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make
judgements using the standards of one’s own culture.

____________________________ 3. Is an object, word, or action that stands for something else, without
natural relationship, that is culturally defined.

____________________________ 4. A symbol relating to human societies and its mode of organization.

____________________________ 5. A symbol used in production, distribution, and consumption of goods

and services like currency, market, labor, demands and other economic activities.

____________________________ 6. Symbols that are usually used to embody an ideology, an advocacy, or

a group of people with the same principles.

____________________________ 7. A symbol of manifestation that signifies ideology of a particular culture

that has meaning within that culture.

____________________________ 8. Are the manifestation of culture and sub-culture, especially concerning

the traditional and customary practices of a particular ethnic or other cultural group.

____________________________ 9. Is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a

specific concept within a religion.

____________________________ 10. Are common things that are done with a state or country.

TEST III – FILL ME IN!

 Direction: Fill-in the missing word/s by unlocking the jumbled letters. Write your answers in the space provided.

TSEDNDNRAU - ______________________1. Cultural Relativism is the ability to ____________ a culture on its

own terms and not to make judgements using the standards of one’s own culture.

EVIURSLNA - _________________________2. In Cultural relativism, the opposite of the idea that moral truth
is____________ and objective, contends there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.

UTOHS CRIAAF - ____________________3. In _________, if you board a nearly empty bus or enter a nearly
empty movie theater, it is regarded as polite to sit next to the only person there.

OHJN OTGER - ______________________4. Who said that, “The notion of the mask over the face of nature
is….what I have called “relativism”.

ERENTSW - __________________________5. Although the term “relativism” is of recent coinage, doctrines and
positions, with some of the hallmarks of contemporary relativism, date back to the very beginnings of
____________ philosophy.

BENAPCUCTEAL - __________________6. In our country the Philippines, premarital sex is morally

____________.

LNPAITEOISRH - _______________________7. The idea of Cultural relativism teaches us that, _________

patterns are cultural options, not objective truth.

LTCAULRU RECASIPCT - _________________________________8. The goal of Cultural Relativism is to

promote understanding of _____________ that are not typically part of one’s own culture.

UTCRLALU LIRAIMTVSE - ________________________________9. The idea of the concept of

____________________ warns us, quite rightly, about the danger of assuming that all of our practices are based
on some absolute rational standard.

TCUSRUEL - _______________________10. Cultural relativism doesn’t mean that ___________ can’t be

compared.

TEST IV - ENUMERATION

A. Types of Symbols
1. _____________________________________
2. _____________________________________
3. _____________________________________
4. _____________________________________
B. Examples of Cultural Practices
5. ___________________________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________________________
8. ___________________________________________________________
C. Examples of Cultural Symbols
9. _____________________________________
10. _____________________________________
11. ____________________________________
12. ____________________________________
D. Examples of Political Symbols and Practices
13. ________________________________________________
14. ________________________________________________
15. ________________________________________________
16. ________________________________________________
E. Examples of Social Symbols and Practices
17. ___________________________________________________________
18. ___________________________________________________________
19. ___________________________________________________________
20. ___________________________________________________________
F. Examples of Economic Symbols and Practices
21. ___________________________________________________________
22. ___________________________________________________________
23. ___________________________________________________________
24. ___________________________________________________________
25. ___________________________________________________________

“Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.”
- Saint Augustine