Summative Test For Humanities

Division of City Schools
General Santos City National High School

Calumpang, General Santos City
Summative Test
Understanding Culture Society and Politics August 7, 2018
Test – I Directions: Choose the best answer from the given choices. Letters only.
1. Person’s beliefs and activities should be understood and make sense in terms of his
or her own culture.
a. Ethnocentrism b. Multiculturalism c- Xenocentrism d. Cultural relativism
2. One’s cultural group is centrally more important and more superior to others.
a. Ethnocentrism b. Multiculturalism c- Xenocentrism d. Cultural relativism
3. A group of people who share a common economic, and cultural background.

a. Culture b. Society c. Anthropologist d. Identity
4. It is the systematic study of biological, cultural, and social aspect of man.

a- Anthropology b. Social Control c. Deviance d. Sociology
5. ________ is the distinctive characteristics that defines an individual.

a- society b- gender c- identity d. political change
6. ________ studies the origins of humans as well as the interplay between social factors and
and the processes of human evolution, adaptation, and variation over a period of time.
a. Cultural Anthropology c. Social Anthropology
b. Linguistic Anthropology d. Physical Anthropology.
7. It is the systematic study of politics, which describe s as the activity through which people
make, preserve, and amend general rules under which they live.
a- Politiclal Science b- . Social Anthropology c- Deviance d- Social Control
8. ________ advances the awareness and acceptance of cultural differences but encourages a
critical stance in dealing with issues regarding diversity.
a. multiculturalism b. Social Control c. cultural sensitivity d. ethnocentric approach
9. It assumes that there is a constant power struggle among the various social groups and
institutions within the society.
a. Symbolic Interaction c. Relativistic Approach
b. Ethnocentric Approach d. Conflict theory
10. A type of community dating back millions of years ago that is considered as the first society.
a. Hunting b. Pastoral c. Agriculture d. industrial
11. The process by which an individual learns or acquires the important aspect of society.
a. Socialization b. Enculturation c. Context d. Material Culture
12. _______ enables members of the society to communicate verbally and nonverbally.
a. folkways b. symbols c. language d. values
13. This refers to the particular circumstances of a certain culture and is defined by location,
weather, time period, and other factors.
a. Context b. Enculturation c. Deviation d. socialization
14. It refers to the shared rules of conduct that determines specific behavior among
society members.
a. mores b. laws c. folkways d. values
15. This type of community saw an increase in food production and enabled permanent
settlement.
a. Horticulture b. Agriculture c. Industrial d. Hunting
16. _______ is the primary agent of socialization of an individual upon birth, throughout
infancy, and up to childhood.
a. Family b. Peer Group c. Mass Media d. Religion
17. It is formed by informal, spontaneous, and voluntary means allowing individuals with
similar background and interests.
a. School b. Peer Group c. Mass Media d. Religion
18. An agent of socialization that teaches important values like competitiveness, cooperation,
conformity, punctuality, innovations, and respect for authority.
a. Religion b. Peer Group c. Mass Media d. School
19. It is considered as the most powerful agent of socialization widely used by institutions
nd organizations involved in the use of print and electronic communication.
a. Religion b. Peer Group c. Mass Media d. School
20. It refers to the process of altering one’s thoughts and actions to adapt to the accepted
behavior within his or her group or society.
a. Identification b. Conformity c. Compliance d. Internalization
negative
21. ________ refers to the individual adopting a certain behavior because it enables him or her
to have satisfying relationship with the members of the group.
22. It refers to the outward conformity to social pressures but privately disagreeing with it.
23. _______ is defined as a behavior that elicits a strong negative reaction from group members
Involves actions that violate commonly held social norms.
a. Acceptance b. Labeling Theory c. Sub-cultural View d. Deviance
24. It analyzes deviance in the framework of compelling interest between social groups and the
maintenance of powers among elites.
a. Conflict Perspective b. Labeling Theory c. Structural Strain Theory d. Deviance
25. It is defined as any systematic means and practices used to maintain norms, rules, laws,
and laws; regulate conflict; and discourage deviant behavior.
a. Social control b. Broken Window Theory c. Conflict Perspective d. Conformity
26. ________ are those provided for by laws and other regulations in the society wherein laws
designate certain behaviors as crimes, and prescribe sanctions for such acts.
a- Informal Sanctions b. Social Control c. Formal Sanctions d. Conflict Theory
27. It is the most common means of social control, and are often employed to address conflicts
violations of social norms.
a. Deviance b. Sanctions c. Conflict d. Conformity
28. It refers to the idea that a person has the innate right to be valued, respected, and treated
well.
a. Human Rights b. Human Dignity c. Bill of Rights d. Human Freedom
29. These are legal and ethical principles that consider a human person as deserving of liberties
and protections.
a. Human Rights b. Human Dignity c. Bill of Rights d. Human Freedom
30. It refers to persons, groups and institutions that interact with individuals and teach them the
essential knowledge needed to participate successfully in society.
a. Agents of Socialization c. Informal Sanctions
b. Universal Declaration of Human Rights d. Bill of Rights
31. If culture is diversified by the society, Society in effect reacts to its ____________.
a. Political changes b. Economic conditions c. Cultural changes d. Biological changes
32. Which of the following is considered a manifestation of our Cultural Evolution?

a. Expressing emotions through dancing c. Imitating Culture of other countries
b. Performing Foreign Arts d. Viewing Philippine cultural practices
33. Functionalism is a theory about the nature of “mental states” that everything is brought by
what we ______, and how we nurture ________.
a. say - lives b. feel - actions c. think - imaginations d. view – feelings
34. What theory argues that the tensions and strains between the socially approved goals and
an individual’s ability to meet them will lead to deviance?
a. Subcultural View c. Structural Strain Theory
b. Labeling Theory d. Broken Window Theory
35. It is a kind of theory which believes that there is no deviance in the society; deviance only
emerges when society considering it as deviant or undesirable.
a. Subcultural View c. Structural Strain Theory
b. Broken Window Theory d. labeling Theory
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3. A group of people who share a common economic, and cultural background.

4. It is the systematic study of biological, cultural, and social aspect of man.

5. ________ is the distinctive characteristics that defines an individual.

a. Acceptance b. Labeling Theory c. Sub-cultural View d. Deviance

32. Which of the following is considered a manifestation of our Cultural Evolution?

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