Midterm Examination in Discipline and Ideas

Identify what sociological principles are being described in items 1-5. Write the letter that best
corresponds to your answer.
*Choices for 1-5.
A. Culture is learned
B. Culture is based on symbolism
C. Culture is shared
D. Culture is patterned/integrated

1. One aspect of culture reflects other aspects; an example of this is Teotihuacan’s Pyramid
of the Sun.

2. Transmission of culture from generation to generation.

3. Culture is learned through language.

4. Hutterites in Saskatchewan who use technology but retain traditional clothing and religious
belief.

5. Our behavior not genetically transmitted.

6. Anthropos: human ; Archaelogy: ___________________

A. Study of cultures and their social organization
B. Study of past human lifeforms
C. Study of past cultures by excavating their remains
D. Study of human variations
7. Anthropology: Study of humankind ; Paleonthropology:____________
A. Study of cultures and their social organization
B. Study of past human lifeforms
C. Study of past cultures by excavating their remains
D. Study of human variations

8. Linguistics: study of spoken language ; Forensics: ________________

A. Study of nonhuman primate anatomy and behavior
B. The analysis of evidence related to criminal activity
C. Studies in biological human evolution
D. Interaction between human population and environment

9. Study of spoken language:Linguistics ; Study of primate anatomy : ____________

A. Economics C. Forensics
B. Primatology D. Paleonthropology

10. Study of past of human: History ; Maintain peace and order: ___________
A. Economics C. Forensics
B. Primatology D. Paleonthropology

11. Society and human social action: Sociology ; Queen of Social Science: _______
A. Economics C. Industrial relations
B. Political Science D. Philosophy

12. The functionalist theory approach:Emile Durkheim;the conflict theory approach:____

A. Herbert Spencer C. Auguste Comte
B. Karl Marx D. Edward Tylor
13. Which of the following branch seeks to elucidate the rules governing the natural world?
A. Astrology C. Natural Science
B. Social Science D. Biological Science

14. The following are the concern of social science EXCEPT___________

 A. concerned with society, relationship among people
B. tells us about the world beyond our immediate experience
C. provides vital information for us
D. examine the natural environment
15. Who among the thinkers said that “history of all existing society is the history of class
struggles”?
A. Comte C. Marx
B. Durkheim D. Weber
16. What is ethnocentrism?
A. responding to the context of other culture
B. responding from the context of one’s culture
C. insider’s viewpoint of his/ her cultural perspective
D. listener’s own culture view
17. What field considered as both empirical and social science?
A. Language C. Filipino
B. History D. Math
18. The following are the products of human behavior EXCEPT______
A. tools C. housing
B. artifacts D. subsistence
19. He stated that changes are adaptations to environment acquired in an organism’s
lifetime?
A. Linnaeus C. Aristotle
B. Malthus D. Lamarck

20. If a body part were used, it got stronger, if body part was NOT used, it gets deteriorated.
What theory is this?
A. Tendency toward perfection C. Use and Disuse
B. Inheritance of acquired traits D. All of the above
21. Bird ancestors desired to fly so they tried until wings developed. What is this theory
of evolution?
A. Tendency toward perfection C. Use and Disuse
B. Inheritance of acquired traits D. All of the above

22. What are the unique animals Darwin saw in the Galapagos Islands?
A. Tortoises C. Finches
B. Iguanas D. All of the above
23. How to utilize culture?
A. through modes of production C. A and B
B. through modes of reproduction D. none of the above
24. Who believed that misery and exploitation of the working lower classes in the society was
caused by capitalism?
A. Herbert Spencer C. Henri- Saint- Simon
B. Auguste Comte D. Karl Marx
25. Which of the following fields study the human condition?
A. Behavioral Science C. Social Science
B. Humanities D. Natural Science
26. What branch of sociology studies production, distribution, consumption and exchange of
goods and services?
A. sociology of economy C. rural sociology
B. criminology D. sociology of religion
27. According to anthropologists and social scientist, what is this belief structure that
determines one’s identity and said to be very difficult to define and has no universal
definition?
A. Science C. Society
B. Humanities D. Culture
28 “culture is ordinary, what does it mean?
A. Every culture is simple.
B. Culture is significant to every individual.
C. Culture is a necessity.
D. Every person has his/her own culture.
29. “All cultures are equally complex.” What does it mean?
A. All cultures are superior because all cultures are complex.
 B. All cultures are inferior because all cultures are simple.
C. All cultures are special and the same.
D. All cultures are the same, no superior, no inferior.
30. Ramon grew up in a poor family. On the other hand, Maximo grew up in a wealthy family.
Ramon and Maximo are friends. Both of them studied hard but Ramon didn’t make it because
he was forced to work and give up his studies to support the medication of his ailing parents
while Maximo with the full financial and moral support of his parents graduated and became a
lawyer. What approach best explains this phenomenon?
A. Evolutionism C. Marxism.
B. Functionalism D. Feminism

For items 31-50, identify if the statements are true or false. Choose the letter that represents
the correct combination of answers.
*Choices for questions ______________
A. Both statements are true
B. Both statements are false
C. Statement I is true; Statement II is false
D. Statement I is false; Statement II is true

31. Statement I – Aristotle believed species were fixed creations arranged by their
complexity.
Statement II- Darwin proposed the theory of evolution “Use and Disuse”.

32. Statement I- Anthropolgy integrates all aspects of a culture.

Statement II- Language is based on symbols.

33. Statement I-Paleoanthropology involves human and prehumen physical remains

where they are related to the artifacts and structures them left behind.
Statement II- Physical Anthropology involves comparative study of humankind’s
physical attributes.

34. Statement I- There is indication that any one race has a greater capacity for future than
any other race.
Statement II-- We learn partly by imitation but mostly through language.
35. Statement I- Scientific Method is a mode of inquiry that requires the generation, besting
and acceptance or rejection of hypotheses or explanation of phenomenon.
Statement II- A theory is an educated guess to explain the existence of a thing, life form or
event.
36. Statement I- Fossil hominids may give us a clue as to how and when we acquired our
abilities.
Statement II - Serology is the study of polytypic groups with regional distinctions capable of
interbreeding.