Catholic Association Schools of Prelature of Infanta

FATHER JOHN KARASH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL OF DIPACULAO, INC.

North Poblacion, Dipaculao, Aurora 3203
S.Y. 2023 – 2024

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

12 – UNDERSTANDING
CULTURE SOCIETY AND
POLITICS

NO COMMUNICATION DEVICES
NO TALKING
NO CHEATING!

“You are a Carmelian who possessed the Spirit of PRAYER, COMPASSION, and PROPHETIC
ACTION.”

Learner’s Scores: Comments:

I. Nature, Goals and Perspectives
in/of Anthropology, Sociology
and Political Science : ___/15
II. Significance of Cultural,
Social, Political and Economic
Symbols and Practices : ___/15
III. Social, Political and
Cultural Change : ___/5
IV. The Importance of Cultural
Relativism in Attaining
Cultural Understanding : ___/5
V. Socialization : ___/10
Total : ___/50

Name:
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Last Name First Name Middle Name

Grade & Section:________________________________ Date:

__________________________ Month/Day/Year
GENERAL DIRECTIONS. Read all instructions completely and attentively.
EXCESSIVE ERASURE will result in a point deduction. There's no reason to
hurry! Make the most of your time when answering the exam. Keep in mind
that your Final Exam accounts for 30% of your overall grade, so pay
attention and be patient. Best of luck!

I. Read each question carefully. Encircle the letter which

corresponds to the correct answer.

1. It is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and
consequences of human behavior.
a. Sociology
b. Anthropology
c. Politics
d. Anthropologist

2. They investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies

and how people interact within these contexts.

a. Archaeologists
b. Anthropologists
c. Sociologists
d. Politicians

3. It is a broad topic that includes everything from economics to politics to

family dynamics.
a. Social Change
b. Society
c. Social Injustice
d. Social Behavior

4. What is the study of human social behavior?

a. Sociologists
b. Anthropology
c. Sociology
d. Politics

5. They are dependent upon the care and teaching of others for the first
several years of life. Who are they?
a. Human
b. Society
c. Family
d. Community

6. What do you call to a broad approach in understanding the many

different aspects of the human experience?
 a. Holistic
b. Holism
c. Holiness
d. Holistic Formation

7. What do you call to the study of what makes us human?

a. Politics
b. Sociology
c. Anthropology
d. Anthropologist

8. They consider the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups
lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to
them.

a. Sociologists
b. Anthropologists
c. Politicians
d. Archaeologists

9. They also try to understand how people interact in social relationships

(for example with families and friends).

a. Politicians
b. Sociologists
c. Anthropologists
d. Archaeologists

10. Political science is occasionally called _______________________.

a. Polio
b. Poliology
c. Polynomy
d. Politology

11. It entails understanding political ideas, ideologies, institutions, policies,

processes, and behavior, as well as groups, classes, government,
diplomacy, law, strategy, and war.

a. Politics
b. Sociology
c. Anthropology
d. Political Science

12. What do you call to the science of comparison and teaching of different
types of constitutions, political actors, legislature, and associated fields,
all of them from an intrastate perspective?

a. Politics
 b. Politicians
c. Political Science
d. Comparative Politics

13. It deals with the interaction between nation-states as well as

intergovernmental and transnational organizations.

a. Migration
b. Immigration
c. International Relations
d. International Relationships

14. It is the study of politics and power from domestic, international, and
comparative perspectives.

a. Politics
b. Sociology
c. Anthropology
d. Political Science

15. What is the theory that is more concerned with contributions of various
classical and contemporary thinkers and philosophers?

a. Social Theory
b. Marxist Theory
c. Political Theory
d. Conflict Theory

II. Write TRUE if the statement is correct but if it’s false,

underline the word/words that make the statement incorrect
then write the correct word/words on the space provided
before the number.

_____________________ 16. Oldowan tools are part of the Lower Paleolithic

stage of technological development.

_____________________ 17. There were two main types of Acheulian tools.

_____________________ 18. Mousterian tools are very efficient as all the sides
of the flake tool are sharpened and are more handy.

_____________________ 19. Flake tools were used as knives.

_____________________ 20. Core tools were made by using a rock as a

hammer to knock flakes off another stone, resulting
in a chopping tool that could be held easily in the
hand.
_____________________ 21. Flake tools were the flakes of rock that were
removed in the process of making the core tools.

_____________________ 22. The members of hunting and gathering societies

primarily survive by hunting animals, fishing, and
gathering plants.

_____________________ 23. Horticultural Societies rely on cultivating fruits,

vegetables, and plants.

_____________________ 24. Pastoral Societies first emerged 12,000 years ago,

pasture animals for food and transportation.

_____________________ 25. Agricultural Societies use technological advances

to cultivate crops (especially grains like wheat, rice,
corn, and barley) over a large area.

_____________________ 26. Sociologists use the phrase Agricultural Revolution

to refer to the technological changes that occurred
as long as 8,500 years ago that led to cultivating
crops and raising farm animals.

_____________________ 27. The Neolithic Revolution is the period that is

characterized by a major shift in economic
subsistence of early humans from foraging to
agriculture.

_____________________ 28. Technological Revolution is creating a

postindustrial society based on information,
knowledge, and the selling of services.

_____________________ 29. Agricultural Societies are based on using machines

(particularly fuel‐driven ones) to produce goods.

_____________________ 30. Feudalism was a form of society based on

ownership of land.

III. Identify the following statements. Read each

statement carefully then write the correct answer on
the space provided. Write your answers in CAPITAL
LETTERS only.
 __________________ 31. It is the transformation of social
institutions over time.

__________________ 32. It is the kind of system or ideology used

to express authority in a country.

__________________ 33. It is the transformation of culture or the

way people live.

__________________ 34. It tends to give direction and

momentum to social change and to set
limits beyond which social change may
not go.

__________________ 35. It refers to all changes occurring in any

branch of culture including art, science,
technology, philosophy etc., as well as
changes in the forms and rules of social
organizations”.

IV. Read each questions below then answer the following

questions using 3-5 sentences.

36. – 40. What is the difference between cultural relativism

and ethnocentrism?
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41. – 45. How does socialization contribute to values

formation?
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46. – 50. How does socialization improves personality

development?
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“Success is not final; Failure is not fatal:

It is the courage to continue that counts.”

- Winston S. Churchill

Prepared by Ma’am Thailyn