COLLEGE OF SUBIC MONTESSORI SUBIC BAY, INC.

“ Seipsum Facit Persona – Man Makes Himself” “Shaping Lives, Intellects and World Views”

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

12-ABM/STEM
2ND PERIODICAL EXAMINATION

Name: __________________________________ Date: ____________ Score: ________

I.
Instruction: From the choices given, identify what is being asked for in each sentence about Perspective in the
Study of Culture and Society. Write only the letter of your choice. (2pts each)

A. Culture J. Interpretive Perspective

B. Cultural Diversity K. Structural-Functional
C. Ethnocentrism L. Symbolic Interactionism
D. Tangible Cultural Heritage
E. Intangible Cultural Heritage
F. Xenocentrism
G. Critical Perspective
H. Comparative Perspective
I. Conflict Perspective

_____1. A range of different societies or people of different origins, religions, and traditions all living and interacting
together.
_____2. Refers to a complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, law, art, morals, customs, and other capabilities
and habits acquired by man as a member of the society.
_____3. Are visible traces form antiquity to the recent past like churches, natural landscapes.
_____4. Is a state where a society feels inferior about their own culture and gives high regard on other culture.
_____5. Includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as
oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, and the like.
_____6. Examines the relationship of individuals within their society.
_____7. Explain the similarities and differences among the culture and society in the context of humanity as a whole.
_____8. Perspective in sociology first used by Emile Durkheim and later developed by Talcott Parsons, Herbert Spencer,
and Robert K. Merton.
_____9. This perspective sprang out primarily out of Karl Marx’s writings on class struggles.
_____10.Popularized by the Frankfurt School, it always question conclusions in order to improve the quality of
knowledge in the field by disproving incorrect claims or uncovering new truths.
II.
Instruction: Encircle the letter of your choice for the answer on the questions about Culture and Perspective in the
Study of Culture and Society.
1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of culture?
a. Culture is shared and transmitted
b. Culture is innate to human beings
c. Culture is dynamic and flexible
d. Culture requires language and other forms of communication

2. Ethnocentrism refers to:

a. The tendency to judge other cultures using the standards of one’s own culture
b. The view that some societies are superior to one’s own.
c. The coexistence of diverse cultures with equal standing in a society
d. Judging another culture by its own standard
Prepared by: MICHELLE ANN T. GARBIN CHEKED BY: DR. JOSEFINA J. DOMINADO, LPT
 COLLEGE OF SUBIC MONTESSORI SUBIC BAY, INC.
“ Seipsum Facit Persona – Man Makes Himself” “Shaping Lives, Intellects and World Views”

3. Who first defined culture as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and
any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member o society?”
a. Edward B. Taylor
b. Wendy Griswold
c. Taylor Edwards
d. Emile Durkheim

4. Which of the following is an example of intangible cultural heritage?

a. Epics and Myths
b. Indigenous songs and dance
c. Filipino values of hospitality, pagmamano, saying “po and opo”
d. All of the above

5. What is the initial step that a Filipino can do to show his appreciation of our tangible cultural heritage?
a. Invite foreigners
b. Visit and learn more about them
c. Campaign for its preservation
d. Draft laws to protect them

6. How can we show that we are taking care of our cultural heritage?
a. Invite foreign investors to put up business near the cultural site
b. Preserve its natural beauty and keep it clean
c. Put up modern facilities to the site
d. Buy souvenirs from a nearby shop

7. Which sociological perspective viewed an individual’s action as relative to his reaction to his society?
a. Functionalism
b. Comparative
c. Symbolic Interactionism
d. Interpretive

8. Which of the following terms is synonymous to “colonial mentality”?

a. Noble savage
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Xenocentrism
d. Sinocentrism

9. Being cultured means somebody should be knowledgeable of the ways of the high class society people in the field
of the visual and performing arts as well as proper etiquette.
a. True
b. False

10. It explain how the child develops the ability to grasp the role and attitudes of other persons and visualize himself
or herself through the eyes of others, acquiring what he or she calls the “social self”
a. The “I” and the “Me”
b. The “looking-glass self”
c. The Mask, the Performance and the Front

Prepared by: MICHELLE ANN T. GARBIN CHEKED BY: DR. JOSEFINA J. DOMINADO, LPT
 COLLEGE OF SUBIC MONTESSORI SUBIC BAY, INC.
“ Seipsum Facit Persona – Man Makes Himself” “Shaping Lives, Intellects and World Views”

III.
Instruction: Complete the table below about Socialization and Enculturation (Agents of Socialization). (2pts each)

Agents of Socialization How it contributes to the formation Possible things that can happen to a
of the child child if he or she is not properly
guided by the agent of socialization
A. Family

B. School

C. Mass Media

D. Peer group

E. The Church

“ONE DAY, ALL OF YOUR DREAMS WILL COME TRUE”

Prepared by: MICHELLE ANN T. GARBIN CHEKED BY: DR. JOSEFINA J. DOMINADO, LPT