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San Isidro, Bohol

FINAL EXAM IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, & POLITICS

(Grade 12)

Name:_______________________________________________Year & Section:__________________ Date:____________________

Teacher: Ms. Juliville H. Salinas
I. Choose the correct answer that best completes each of the following items. Write the letter on the space provided.
_____1. It is a person’s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling.
a. personality b. values c. norms d. status
_____2. It is the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.
a. conformity b. deviance c. socialization d. play
_____3. He combined basic needs and the influence of society into a model of personality with three parts: id, ego, and superego.
a. Herbert Mead b. Sigmund Freud c. Charles Horton Cooley d. Jean Piaget
_____4. It represents the human being’s basic drives, or biological and physical needs which are unconscious and demand immediate
satisfaction.
a. Ego b. Id c. Superego d. Self
_____5. It refers to the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual.
a. Ego b. Id c. Superego d. Self
_____6. It is a person’s conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society.
a. Ego b. Id c. Superego d. Self
_____7. From his studies of human cognition, or how people think and understand, he identified 4 stages of cognitive development.
a. Herbert Mead b. Sigmund Freud c. Charles Horton Cooley d. Jean Piaget
_____8. It is a part of our personality and includes self-awareness and self-image.
a. Ego b. Id c. Superego d. Self
_____9. It involves assuming roles modeled on significant others, or people, such as parents, who have special importance for
socialization.
a. conformity b. deviance c. socialization d. play
____10. It is usually the first setting of socialization, has the greatest impact on attitudes and behavior.
a. family b. schools c. peer groups d. media
____11. These teach knowledge and skills needed for later life, and expose children to greater social diversity.
a. family b. schools c. peer groups d. media
____12. It is also defined as the process of preparing members for membership in a given group in society.
a. conformity b. deviance c. socialization d. play
____13. These are culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as
broad guidelines for social living.
a. Norms b. Role c. Status d. Values
____14. It refers a social position that a person holds.
a. Norms b. Role c. Status d. Values
____15. These are the rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
a. Norms b. Role c. Status d. Values
____16. It refers to a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort.
a. Achieved Status b. Ascribed Status c. Sex d. Gender
____17. It is a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life.
a. Achieved Status b. Ascribed Status c. Sex d. Gender
____18. It refers to behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status.
a. Norms b. Role c. Status d. Values
____19. It refers to those social, cultural, and psychological traits linked to males and females through particular social contexts.
a. Achieved Status b. Ascribed Status c. Sex d. Gender
____20. It refers to the biological characteristics distinguishing male and female.
a. Achieved Status b. Ascribed Status c. Sex d. Gender
____21. Individuals first use language and other symbols.
a. Concrete Operational b. Formal Operational c. Preoperational d. Sensorimotor
____22. Individuals think abstractly and critically.
a. Concrete Operational b. Formal Operational c. Preoperational d. Sensorimotor
____23. Individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings.
a. Concrete Operational b. Formal Operational c. Preoperational d. Sensorimotor
____24. Individuals know the world only through the five senses.
a. Concrete Operational b. Formal Operational c. Preoperational d. Sensorimotor
____25. These are attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior.
a. Conformity b. Deviance c. Social Control d. Social Action
____26. It means achieving cultural goals through approved means.
a. Conformity b. Deviance c. Social Control d. Social Action
____27. It is norm breaking.
a. Conformity b. Deviance c. Social Control d. Social Action
____28. These are norms that become specified and institutionalized.
a. Crime b. Laws c. Rebellion d. Retreatism

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____29. It refers to the violation of the law.
a. Crime b. Laws c. Rebellion d. Retreatism
____30. Which of the following is not a function of deviance?
a. Affirms cultural norms and values. Deviance is needed to define and support morality.
b. Clarifies moral boundaries. By defining some individuals as deviant, people draw a boundary between right and wrong.
c. Brings people together.
d. Encourages status quo.
____31. It refers to rejecting both cultural goals and conventional means so that a person in effect “drops out.”
a. Innovation b. Ritualism c. Rebellion d. Retreatism
____32. People do not care much about the goal (getting rich) but stick to the rules (the conventional means) anyway in order to feel
“respectable.”
a. Innovation b. Ritualism c. Rebellion d. Retreatism
____33. It involves using unconventional means rather than conventional means to achieve a culturally approved goal.
a. Innovation b. Ritualism c. Rebellion d. Retreatism
____34. Like retreatists, they reject both the cultural definition of success and the conventional means of achieving it, but they
provide alternatives to the existing social order.
a. Innovation b. Ritualism c. Rebellion d. Retreatism
____35. It consists of two or more people who identify with and interact with one another.
a. Family b. Community c. Social Action d. Social Group
____36. It is a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships.
a. Primary Group b. Band c. Network d. Secondary Group
____37. It is a large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal or activity.
a. Primary Group b. Band c. Network d. Secondary Group
____38. Which of the following describes a reference group?
a. integrated formation of multi-local kin groups
b. societies organize some form of formal structures that integrate several communities into a political unit under the
leadership of a council with or without a chief
c. usually led by a headman who members of the the community considered as either their best hunter or wisest member
d. a social group that serves as a point of reference in making evaluations and decisions
____39. Which is not correct?
a. An In-group -is a social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty, while an out-group -is a social group toward
which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition.
b. A nuclear family is a family whose composition and form of emotional care differ from those of the extended family.
c. Kinship is a “social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption”.
d. Ritual kinship refers to ritual parent-child relations.
____40. Which is true about a family?
a. It is a social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any
children.
b. a “social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption”
c. “social institution that organizes a society’s production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services”.
d. none of the above
____41. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
a. Traditional action b. Affectual action c. Value rationality d. Charismatic authority
____42. Which one is different from the rest?
a. Traditional Authority b. Charismatic Authority c. Rational-legal Authority d. Affectual
_____43. Civil Society is
a. “the population of groups formed for collective purpose primarily outside of the State and marketplace”
b. a large, rational organization, designed to perform tasks efficiently
c. the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values and beliefs
d. involving a set of symbols that invoke feelings of reverence or awe, which are linked to rituals practiced by a community of
believers
_____44. All are correct except one
a. Economy is the “social institution that organizes a society’s production, distribution, and consumption of goods and
services”.
b. Social action is one that individuals attach subjective meanings to.
c. Nonstate actors are organizations, groups, or networks that participate in international relations and global governance.
d. Private education, is an example of how education can restructure entire populations and redefine the rights and
obligations of citizens.
____45. Which of the following is true about social stratification?
a. It is a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy according to power, wealth, and prestige.
b. It is the change in position within the social hierarchy.
c. It is a rigid and unfair generalization about a category of people.
d. It refers to social recognition and deference.
____46. All are true except one.
a. Wealth pertains to ownership or control of resource.
b. Power is the ability to compel obedience or control a number of people.
c. Prestige refers to social recognition and deference.
d. Social mobility are rewards of social positions of statuses.
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____47. Some people move downward because of business failures, unemployment, or illness. This is
a. Vertical Mobility b. Horizontal Mobility c. Economy d. Social Change
____48. When people switch from one job to another at about the same social level.
a. Vertical Mobility b. Horizontal Mobility c. Economy d. Social Change
____49. Which of the following is not correct?
a. Closed systems allow for little change in social position.
b. Closed systems are called caste systems.
c. Open systems permit much more social mobility.
d. Open systems are called caste systems.
____50. Rewarding important work with income, prestige, and power encourages people to do these jobs and to work better, longer,
and harder.
a. Functionalist perspective c. Symbolic interaction perspective
b. Social conflict perspective d. none of the above
____51. Conspicuous consumption involves people buying expensive products not because they need them but to show off their
wealth.
a. Functionalist perspective c. Symbolic interaction perspective
b. Social conflict perspective d. none of the above
____52. It emphasizes how it benefits some people and disadvantages others.
a. Functionalist perspective c. Symbolic interaction perspective
b. Social conflict perspective d. none of the above
____53. It claims that three factors, namely export-orientation, a lack of industrial capacity, and foreign debt, make poor countries
dependent on rich nations and prevent their economic development.
a. Dependency Theory b. Modernization Theory c. Structural Functionalism d. Ethnicity
____54. Rich nations can help poor nations by providing technology to control population size, increase food production, and expand
industrial output and by providing foreign aid to support economic development.
a. Dependency Theory b. Modernization Theory c. Structural Functionalism d. Ethnicity
____55. Which of the following is not a characteristic of social change?
a. Social change happens all the time.
b. Social change is always planned.
c. Social change is controversial.
d. Some changes matter more than others.
____56. All are signs of modernity in the society except one.
a. Consumers view of the market c. Status
b. Role of education d. Mass media as means of communication
____57. It is a form of anxiety that results from an inability to predict the behavior of others or act appropriately in a cross-cultural
situation.
a. Modernization b. Modernity c. Culture Shock d. Inclusive Citizenship
____58. Which are results of female-headed transnational families?
a. Children disagree with their mothers that commodities are sufficient markers of love.
b. Children do not believe that their mothers recognize the sacrifices that children have made toward the successful
maintenance of the family.
c. Although children appreciate the efforts of migrant mothers to show affection and care, they still question the extent of
their efforts.
d. all of the above
____59. Social movement is “a sustained campaign of claim making, using repeated performances that advertise the claim, based on
organizations, networks, traditions and solidarities that sustain these activities”. Which of the following statements supports
the meaning given above?
a. Highly successful movements at times transform into a party.
b. Social movements also engage in consensus mobilization within and outside institutions
c. Social movement impacts on various aspects of political and social life—from policy changes to effects brought about in
the lives of activists.
d. all of the above
____60. Which of the following does not describe inclusive citizenship?
a. equal rights b. fair treatment c. discrimination d. elimination of social barriers

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