OUR LADY OF PIAT HIGH SCHOOL

POBLACION 02, PIAT CAGAYAN

1st Periodic Test in
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS
NAME: __________________________________DATE:__________________SCORE: ________
I. Assess whether the following statements are TRUE or False.
_______1. Society is made possible by social interactions.
_______2. Society is a concept that can be used to grasp complex social phenomena.
_______3. When parts of a system perform their assigned functions, social order is assured.
_______4. Culture is homogeneous.
_______5. Omniscience means everywhere, which means, society is present in the four corners of the
territory.

_______6. All rules are visible and written.

_______7. Symbolic interactionism explores the issues of meaning making.
_______8. Culture and Society are two different concepts that make sense of human actions and
products of such actions.

_______9. Structural functionalism looks at society as an arena and the social actors are the gladiators.
_______10. Culture is shared, transmitted, continuous, and cumulative.
_______11. Culture is composed of both material and non-material components.
_______12. Culture around the world are vastly different from each other. Some are inferior and some
are superior cultures.

_______13. Culture is shared through socialization and enculturation.

_______14. Heritage is a tangible cultural artifact.
_______15. Actions of individuals are routinized and institutionalized in contexts like family, church,
and schools.

_______16. Culture exists as a continuous process.

_______17. Attitude is the main vehicle of culture.
_______18. Culture is an unlearned behavior. It is inborn.
_______19. Culture is a force, operating by itself and dependent of human actors.
_______20. Every society has a culture of its own that is similar from other societies.
_______21. Culture Relativism does not mean that all customs are equally valuable.
_______22. People everywhere think that their own expectations, opinions, and customs are true,
proper, natural, and moral.

_______23. Ethnocentrism encourages the solidarity of a group.

_______24. Ethnocentrism is a sense of value and community among people who share cultural
tradition.

_______25. Cultural relativism is a research method as well.

_______26. Biological Evolution refers to the changes or development of cultures from simple form to a more complex
form.

_______27.Natural selection is the process where organisms with favorable traits are more likely to produce.

_______28. Variation is a principle of natural selection that helps an organism survive and reproduce.

________29. One early view on the origin of human was that Greeks believe that Prometheus fashioned humans out of
stones.

______30. According to Darwin’s natural selection, organisms or individuals possessing traits well suited for the
struggle for local resources will contribute more offspring to the next generation.

II. A. Fill in the circles with the appropriate words from the box.
Election Language House Designs suicide inheritance type of government

Table manners Contractualization Weaving Designs Respect for old people

 CULTURE SOCIETY POLITICS

B. Complete the Chart about the Anatomy of culture and Society.

ANTHROPLOGY 1. _________________________
The What 2. 3.
Refers to the Content of
Culture

4. 5.
Learned

6. 7.
Language

8. 9. 10.

HUMAN EVOLUTION
SPECIE CHARACTERISTICS
Sahelanthropus Tchadensis
Ardipithecus
Australopithecus
Homo Erectus
Homo Habilis

III. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the concepts being described by the following statements.
_____________________ 1. Refers to the tendency of each society to place its own culture patterns at the
center of things.

_____________________ 2. It is the idea that all norms, beliefs, and values are dependent on their cultural
context and should be treated as such.

_____________________ 3. The fear of what is perceived or foreign.

_____________________ 4. Language, traditions and Customs are ________ components of culture.
_____________________ 5. Refers to a preference to the foreign. Exact opposite of Ethnocentrism.
_____________________ 6. He argued that life originated in the sea and that humans initially were fishlike,
eventually moving onto dry land and evolving into mammals.

_____________________ 7. His argument stated that life had evolved from simple lower forms such as
single-celled amoebas to complex higher forms such as humans.

_____________________8. An English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection

became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.

_____________________9. The process where organisms with favorable traits are more likely to
reproduce. In doing so, they pass on these traits to the next generation.

_____________________10. Any member of the biological family Hominidae. These are the "great apes",
living and extinct. At present there are humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.

_____________________11. Are classified humans and not human like because they had bigger brains.
_____________________12. Is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was
introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus.

_____________________13. The process through which the characteristics of organisms change over
successive generations, by means of genetic variation and natural selection.

_____________________14. The evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern
humans.

_____________________15. It is a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.

IV. MATCHING TYPE

Match the descriptions from column a to the concepts or terms from column B. Write the letter of your
answer on the space provided.

A B
____1. his process, societies produce new forms of subsistence, acquire A. Hieroglyphics
more knowledge, develop different levels of innovation, and apply new
forms of technology as a response to challenges posed by the B. Vassal
environment.
C. Post-industrial Society
____2. This societies subsist through small-scale farming.
D. Sumerian
____3. An important development from the industrial evolution as
economic production focused on the application of new information and E. Pharaoh
technology.
F. Horticultural Societies
____4. The oldest and the most basic way of economic subsistence.
G. Socio- cultural
____5. The principal means of subsistence of this society is animal Evolution
domestication.
H. Cuneiform
____6. During this time, neolithic revolution occured. With this major
socio cultural development, agricultural societies began to cultivate I. Civilization
wheat, barley, peas, rice and millet.
J. Pastoral Societies
____7. An American sociologist, argued that human society undergoes
transformation and evolution and in the process develops technological K. Agricultural Societies
advancement.
L. Hunting and Gathering
Societies
____8. The term for peasants during the feudal age.
____9. In the feudal hierarchy, they are the one who protects the landlords M. Serf
or land owners.
N. Gerhard Lenski
____10. System of writing in ancient Egypt. O. Shang
____11. Considered as the first civilization developed along the Tigris and P. Daniel Bell
Euphrates river.

____12. The civilization developed near the Huang ho River in China.

____13. The highest political leader in ancient Egypt.
____14. System of writing in the Sumerian civilization.
____15. Defined as an advanced state of human society containing highly
developed forms of government, culture, industry and common social
norms.

V. Illustrate the followingSocial and political system in India and Egypt.