GPPC: PHILIPPINE POPULAR CULTURE

Final Examination
First Semester 2022-2023, May 20, 2022
General instructions:
1. Read and understand the instructions before answering.
I. Modified True or False
Direction: Analyse the statements in letters A and B of each number then choose the letter of your correct answer. Write in
capital letters in your answer sheet: (12 pts – 2 points each)
A. If the statement in letter A is True and the statement in letter B is False
B. It the statement in letter A is False and the statement in letter B is True
C. If both of the statements in letter A and B are True
D. If both statements in letter A and B are False

1-2. A. Tattooing in the Philippines marks the accomplishments like Lapu-Lapu.

B. Words can be substituted for signs to express meaning.
3-4.A. Sign is implicitly regarded as communicative device.
B. Sign means to express something
5-6. A. Logo (Icon) is a visual sign.
B. Logo does not need (needs) a textual part.
7-8. A. Signs (symbols) represents abstracts
B. Semiology is a science of sign.
9-10.A. “Semiotikos” means observant of sign.
B. “Semion”(meaning sign) means observant of sign.Document Code
11-12.A. Tattooing is the result of cultural fashions.
B. Individuals elected to wear tattoos as a deliberate badges of defiance against social convention.

II. Multiple Choice

A. Direction: Read and analyze the following statements about the social theories. Choose the letter of your best answer
from the box that links with the proponents of the different social theories to popular culture (15 points)
B. Direction: The Social Theories in Popular Culture according to well-known Sociologist. Critique the following lines and identify
to whose social theory these are identified that is connected with the resources of popular culture. Letters only.

A. ADORNO B. DURKHEIM C. GILMAN D. MARX E. SIMMEL F. WEBER G. SAUSSURE

13. A social actor may perceive that their religious values are central to their behavior or central to their identity.
14. Styles of life is an analysis of status.
15. Fashion could be the primary means by which individuals differentiated themselves from each other.
16. Utilizing sound as an empowering political feminist force.
17. Presence of the concept of constant emphasis on the “new”.
18. Hip hop represents a powerful pop cultural expression of radical political messages.

19. A listener is exposed to a commodity and is being manipulated for reasons of marketability.
20. Meeting individuals in a competitive market creates distinctive and differing life chances.
21. Sport is representing a primary source of media spectacle in contemporary popular culture in analyzing
gender politics and gender representations.
22. Interested in the glue concept.
23. Regarded signs and symbols as communicative device.
24. Stated of dependency had to be abolished so that men and women would be equal in terms of their economic relation.
25. Saw on the situation of women not competing equally with male athletes.
26. Status of groups are stratified according to the principles of their consumption of goods.
27. Wrote the Yellow Paper that enlightens the woman’s health, motherhood, mental breakdown and its treatment. Document Code

(20 points – 2 points each)

A. Karl Marx and music
D. George Simmel and pop fashion
B. Max Weber and film
E. Theodor Adorno and television
C. Emile Durkheim and celebrity
F. Charlotte Gilman on Feminism
____28-29. Habang may tatsulok at sila ang nasa tuktok
Di matapaos itong gulo
___30-31. Tao po, nandyan po ba kayo sa loob ng malaking bahay at malawak na bakuran
mataas na pader pinapaligiran at nakapilang mga mamahaling sasakyan
____32-33. Babae kami Hindi manikang lalaruin, huhubaran Bibihisan, Ikukulong
____34-35. I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
- Steve Jobs –
_____36-37. Pinoy, ikaw ay Pinoy, Ipakita sa mundo Kung ano ang kaya mo, Ibang-iba ang Pinoy
Wag kang matatakot, Ipagmalaki mo Pinoy ako, Pinoy tayo!Document Code
____38-39. Ang aking inay na may kayamanang isang kaldero Na nagagamit lang pag ang aking ama ay sumweldo
Pero kulang na kulang parin Ulam na tuyo't asin Ang singkwenta pesos sa maghapo'y pagkakasyahin
____40-41. Winika … "She loved me at my worst. You had me at my best. At binalewala mo ang lahat and you chose to break my heart."

____42-43. Bakit ba mayroong mga Gabriela Mga Teresa at Tandang Sora Na di umasa sa luha't awa?
Sila'y nagsipaghawak ng sandata Nakilaban, ang mithiin ay lumaya.
____ 44-45. Sinabi niya, "Ayoko ng tinatapakan ako. Ayoko ng masikip, ayoko ng walang tubig, ayoko ng mabaho, ayoko ng walang pagkain,
ayoko ng putik!"
_____46-47 Ang problema ng isang mayaman San nya dadalhin ang kanyang yaman Ang problema naman ng isang mahirap lang
Saan siya kukuha ng kakainin araw araw
(April Boys)Document Code

III.
Odd one out. Choose among the following statement which statement is different and should not be included. Write
the letter of your best answer. (8 pts – 2 points each)
48-49. Pop Fashion
A. Fashion is always static and can be pinned down because it never morphs into something new. (correct answer: not
static, it changes).
B. Fashion is used as a means of sexual displays, status symbol and tribal code.
C. The ever- changing use of fashion can be arguably interpreted as a continuation of Simmel’s emphasis
on the pursuit of individuality.
D. Fashion is used as a tool to communicate a self with in a fast-moving world is also a key component of
pop music.
50-51. Karl Marx and theory of music
A. Marxist principle that cultural phenomena are shaped by the material practices of the society that produces them.
B. Culture also tends to get naturalized so that it seems to most people that things couldn’t be any other way.
C. ‘Groove music’ is so ubiquitous that we are tempted to think that it’s just the way that music is, but it’s important to
have a modernized (correct answer: historical) picture
D. It represents an intensification of an aspect of music – meter – which dates from only a few hundred years before
that.
52-53. Feminism and sports
A. Assumption of all liberal sports feminism is that sport is fundamentally sound and represents a positive experience to
which girls and women need access.
B. Differences in female sports participation are seen to be the result of socialization practices carried out by institutions
such Document Code
C. Discriminatory practices prevent women from having equal access to sporting opportunities including facilities and
resources.
D. All the statements are correct
54-55. Reality Television
A. Reality television suggests an attempt by television producers and their corporate managers to ‘accurately’ portray
reality through the medium of television.
B. It seeks, or at least purports to remove the scripted television show’s dependability and predetermined endings,
replacing them with ‘real people’ in ‘real situations’.
C. The dominant producers and managers of technocracy attempt to convey to the audience a conception of reality that is
‘honest’ because it is ‘unscripted’, and which can therefore be trusted as more ‘real’ than the honestly fictitious scripted
program.
D. Reality television is most often nothing short of a conceptual and impractical (correct answer: practical) lie. There is
nothing realistic in the portrayal of aging metal stars and their celebrity friends who just happen to stop by during
sweeps week.
GPPC FACULTY
Reviewed by:
Amabel Palangyos, PhD
Examination Board
Submitted to:
17/05/2023
MARINEL L. PIAMONTE, PhD
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