Department of Education

Region VI—Western Visayas

Division of Cadiz City
Dr. Vicente F. Gustilo Memorial National High School
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
1st Summative Test in UCSP

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer and write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. It defines how people relate to nature and their physical environment.

A. Politics B. . Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology

2. It always describes human, human behaviour and human societies around the world.

A. Sociology B. Anthropology C. Political Science D. Culture

3. It is a social science that deals with humans and their interactions.

A. Sociology B. Anthropology C. Political Science D. Culture

4. It is the study of human social relationships and institutions.

A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology

5. It is a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing.

A. Beliefs B. Customs C. Traditions D. Norms

6. This term means scientific study of man or human beings.

A. Politics B. Anthropology C. Culture D. Sociology

7. It refers to a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology.

A. Nature of politics B. Nature of anthropology C. Nature of culture D. Nature of sociology

8. It attempts to explain how the social world operates.

A. Political theory B. Sociological theory C. Anthropological theory D. Cultural theory

9. It is used to analyse and explain objects of social study, and facilitate organizing sociological knowledge.

A. Theoretical perspective B. Conflict perspective C. Cultural perspective D. Functionalist perspective

10. It sees social life as a competition, and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality.

A. Theoretical perspective B. Conflict perspective C. Cultural perspective D. Functionalist perspective.

11.. Which of the following is characterized by communal ownership of property and division of labor?

A. Asiatic Society B. Capitalists Society C. Democratic Society D. Pre-class Society

12. Which is considered to be the hallmark of modern society?

 A. Information and communication technology C. Machines and industries
B. Irrigation systems D. All of the above

1 3. Which of the following types of society is characterized as by economy that is dependent on tangible goods and the
people must pursue greater education?

A. Horticultural B. Industrial C. Pastoral D. Post-industrial

14. Technological tools, architectural, structures, fashion and accessories, and food are all examples of what component
of culture?

A. Basic Culture B. Commercial Culture C. Material Culture D. Non-material Culture

15. Which one is considered as the perception of individuals to accepted reality?

A. Beliefs B. Folkways C. Knowledge D. Outlook

16. What type of norms tells us thing to do?

A. Folkway B. Law C. Prescriptive D. Proscriptive

17. What type of norms tells us thing NOT to do?

A. Folkway B. Law C. Prescriptive D. Proscriptive

18. What form of norm is codified ethics, formally agreed, and written down and enforced by authorities?

A. Folkways B. Laws C. Mores D. Taboos

19. Which one is an act that violates a social norm?

A. Conflict B. Deviance C. Rebellion D. Ritualism

20. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. Prospective norms are those that define and tell things us not to do.
B. Societal norms are of different types and norms.
C. Prescriptive norms are those that define and tell us things to do. D. Society and culture are the same.

21. Which represent the standards we used to evaluate the desirability of things?

A. Beliefs B. Folkways C. Knowledge D. Values

22. What human action by which one tends to duplicate more or less, or exactly, the behavior of others?

A. Adaptation B. Imitation C. Modification D. Socialization

23. What do you call of Mang Tirzo’s family’s customary patterns of everyday life that specify what is socially correct and
proper?
A. Folkways B. Laws C. Mores D. Norms

24. What does it mean when we say culture is holistic?

A. It is integrated. B. It is a patterned social interaction.

C. It is shared and may be challenged. D. It is adaptive, dynamic, and flexible.

25. Which is the least essential statement?

A. The material and non-material cultures are always interlink.

B. A society represents the beliefs, practices and artifacts of a group.

C. The existence of material culture is justified by the non-material culture.

D. All cultures consist of key elements that are crucial to human’s existence

26. Which statement is relevant?

A. Culture is an adaptive mechanism for humans.

B. Culture is necessary for survival in the complex industrialized nations, but it is not in small societies that live
by hunting and gathering wild foods.

C. The first humans evolved in the cold temperate regions of the world because of the need to develop culture
for survival in those areas.

D. all of the above

27. A tractor is introduced to Mang Jose, a traditional farmer who doesn’t know to operate it. This is an example of what
concept of culture?

A. Culture lag B. Contra culture C. Counterculture D. Culture shock

28. Which is NOT true about cultural relativism?

A. Different societies have different moral codes.

B. The moral code of our own society has no special status

C. There are no moral truths that hold for all people at all times

D. None of the above

29. Which is NOT correct about culture?

A. It may be challenged.

B. It is something biological.

C. Much of learning culture is unconscious

D. None of the above

30. Which statement is irrelevant?

A. Socialization plays no part in personality formation in individuals.

B. Successful socialization can result in uniformity within a society.
C. Large-scale complex societies that are not culturally homogenous usually have unanimous agreement about
what should be the shared norms.
D. none of the above
 31. What cultural term refers to people’s convictions that hold to be true?

A. Belief B. Culture C. Religion D. Tradition

32. What cultural term refers to the experience of personal disorientation when confronted with unfamiliar way
of life?

A. Cultural Adaptation B. Cultural Relativism C. Cultural Shock D. Cultural Variation

33. What cultural terms refer to the evaluation of another culture according to the standards of one’s culture?
A. Cultural Adaptation B. Cultural Relativism C. Cultural Variation D. Ethnocentrism

34. What sociological term refers to shared beliefs, values and practices?

A. Belief B. Culture C. Religion D. Tradition

35. What cultural terms refers to the groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority,
even as the members exist within a larger society?

A. Counter Culture B. High Culture C. Popular Culture D. Subculture

36. What is the cultural pattern of the elite?

A. Counter Culture B. High Culture C. Popular Culture D. Subculture

37. What is the cultural pattern followed by the mainstream of the society?

A. Counter Culture B. High Culture C. Popular Culture D. Subculture

38. What is the cultural patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies?

A. Cultural Shock B. Cultural Universal C. Cultural Variation D. Subculture

39. What cultural practice is being used to assess a culture using its own standards, and not by comparison to
another culture?

A. Cultural Adaptation B. Cultural Relativism C. Cultural Variation D. Ethnocentrism

40. What cultural patterns rejects and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns?

A. Counter Culture B. High Culture C. Popular Culture D. Subculture

Group Multiple Choices. Select the right answer from the choices inside the box.

Choices for 1-4:

A. Hominids B. Homo Habilis C. Homo Erectus D. Homo Sapiens

1. They were the first hunters with improvised tools such as axes and knives, and were the first to produce fire.

2. First to make stone tools.

3. Described as manlike primates.

4. They were the first to produce art in cave paintings and crafting decorated tools and accessories.
Choices for 5-8:

A. Paleolithic Period B. Neolithic Period C. Metal Age D. Age of Modern Technology

5. Also known as the computer age.

6. Trading flourished in and among tribes, kingdoms, empires and later on state.

7. The period when the considered new people learned farming, domesticating animals and use wove cloth as
protection of their skin.

8. People during this period are nomadic.

Choices for 9-12

A. basket B. weaving of cloth C. plough D. banga/clay pot

9. Used for food preservation and storing of water.

10. What materials they produced or made to help them in harvesting crops?

11. With great skills, a loom is a device for;

12. Traditional tool in farming.

Choices for 13-15:

A. Language B. Beliefs C. Values D. Norms

13.Performing rituals -butchering of animals, offering of foods, for the dead relatives.

14. Killing, stealing and many more are strictly prohibited by society.

15. Elders are given high respect in the society.

II. Correct or Incorrect.

Write the word Correct if the idea of the statement is true and the write word Incorrect if otherwise.

__________1. Apes and human have similarities in biological anatomy and capacity for culture.

__________2. As the environment changes, our society and way of life also change.

__________3. Stone tools offer archaeologists hints about the lifestyle of early homo sapiens.

__________4. Earliest people believed in supernatural being or gods.

__________5. The market economic system was founded during the agrarian stage of society.

__________6. Foraging was an economic activity started during the Metal Age.

__________7. The practice of agriculture was known during the late Paleolithic period.

__________8. Producing more food allowed societies to become larger.

__________9. Language has a little influence on our ways of perceiving, behaving, and feeling.

__________10. The expansion of trade sparked the growth of cities as economic and political centers.

III. Discussion.
There are different aspects of culture. Choose only 1 and discuss. (20 pts.)

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