Summative Test in Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences
Summative Test in Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences
Region V (Bicol)
Division of Albay
Pariaan National High School
Pariaan, Camalig, Albay
IDENTIFICATION
Direction: Identify the terms defined by the following sentences. Choose your answer from the box below. Write the letter of the
correct answer.
A. Anthropology B. Natural Sciences C. Economics D. History E. Narrative -
Chronology
F. Negativism G. Humanities H. Demography I. Political Science J. Geography
K. Linguistics L. Positivism M. Psychology N. Social Sciences O. Sociology
______ 1. The study of languages and focuses on the three aspects of language
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______ 2. The scientific study of humans, human behavior and societies in the past and present.
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______ 3. The study of human population and dynamics.
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______ 4. The study of what constitutes rational human behavior in the endeavor to fulfill needs and wants.
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______ 5. It deals with the study of the relationship between the earth and people.
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______ 6. The study of the past and its records about events.
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______ 7. The scientific study of human society and social relationships.
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______ 8. The scientific study of the mind and behavior.
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______ 9. A branch of science which deals with the physical world.
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______ 10. This refer to the academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.
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______ 11. The study of politics and power from domestic, international, and comparative perspectives.
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______ 12. It rejects human agency in historical affairs. Rejects all sources. Rejects the possibility of empathetic
_ understanding of the past.
______ 13. The creation of narratives of the past-analysis plays less role as the role of accidents is most important.
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______ 14. It uses sources to provide an accurate and complete vision of the past.
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______ 15. The study of human social relationships and institutions.
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TRUE OR FALSE
Direction: Read the statements below and determine if they are correct. Write SOCIAL if the statement is true and SCIENCE if the
statement is false.
______ 1. The history of the social sciences begins in the roots of ancient philosophy.
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______ 2. Social sciences came forth from the moral philosophy of the time and were influenced by the Age of Revolution,
_ such as the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution.
______ 3. By the middle of 19th century, liberalism had begun to outgrow its early state and gradually it became the
_ dominant socio-economic system in western and northern Europe.
______ 4. Auguste Comte (1798-1853) invented the term sociology. He was the first to systematize and give a complete
_ analysis of the principles of the positive character of social sciences.
______ 5. Montesquieu and Voltaire broke a new path for politics and sociology.
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______ 6. The natural science has become institutionalized to a high degree and has now become a subject of research.
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______ 7. Social Sciences as those mental or cultural sciences which deal with the activities of the individual as member of
_ the group.
______ 8. Natural Sciences is a major branch of science that deals with the description, prediction and understanding of
_ natural phenomena, basically based on observational and empirical evidence.
______ 9. Humanities refer to the study of the ways in which the human experience is processed and documented.
Department of Education
Region V (Bicol)
Division of Albay
Pariaan National High School
Pariaan, Camalig, Albay
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______ 10. The two main branches of Social Science are life sciences/biological sciences and physical sciences.
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Direction: Below is a two-columned table. Fill out the different concepts that differ natural science from social science.
Direction: Fill in the box the founder, etymology, definition, function and nature of the different disciplines in social sciences (choose
only five (5) disciplines that you want to answer). The first column is an example of what you have to do for the rest of the disciplines.
Write it on a separate sheet of paper.
Economics
Geography
Linguistic
Political
Science
Department of Education
Region V (Bicol)
Division of Albay
Pariaan National High School
Pariaan, Camalig, Albay
Psychology
Sociology
REFLECTION
Please answer these questions honestly.