Diagnostic Test

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Grade 12 – Senior High School
Gammad National High School

Name: _______________________________________________ Date: __________ Score: ________

Directions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. Write only the letter of your answer in your answer
sheet.

_____ 1. Why do culture, society, and politics considered to be as conceptual tool in understanding a human being?
a. Because they exist in the realm of ideas and thoughts.
b. Because concepts are created and have been used to have a firm grip of phenomenon.
c. Both a & b
d. A only
_____ 2. Anthropologists are able to explore and make sense and complex processes and dynamics that characterize the
great variety of “ways of living” practiced and observed around the world. What type of conceptual tool is this?
a. Concept of culture b. Concept of Society c. Concept of Politics d. None of the above
_____ 3. Why gender appears to be the most fundamental, intrusive, and limiting of all the social labels attached to the
members of the society?
a. Because it mirrors the way our culture ‘reads’ us as member of society.
b. Because they are inventors to describe facets of social experiences.
c. Because they are utilized as well in making sense of social realities altogether.
d. None of the above
_____ 5. Which one of the following concepts is demonstrated by the beliefs, customs, values, laws and arts generated
and used by groups?
a. Environment b. Technology c. Culture d. Society
_____ 6. “Significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time”. What does this statement best
describe?
a. Social change b. Social construct c. Cultural cringe d. Technological change
_____ 7. 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 co-existence of diverse cultures with equal standing in a society.
d. Judging another culture by its own standard.
_____ 8. A ______ can be anything that carries a meaning and represents something else.
a. value b. law c. symbol d. all of the above
_____ 9. Archaeology is a branch of:
a. Anthropology b. Cultural Anthropology c. Biological Anthropology d. Paleontology
_____ 10. How does anthropology differ from other social sciences such as economics and sociology?
a. Anthropology is holistic and integrative in its approach.
b. The other social sciences are holistic and integrative in their approach. 
c. Anthropology tends to specialize in the workings of specific systems.
d. Anthropology is more important than the other social sciences. 
_____ 11. _________ is the set of strategies for survival that are NOT genetically determined.
a. Evolution b. Adaptation c. Culture d. Social life
_____ 12. __________ maps the various social forces that shape individual actions and social interactions.
a. Anthropology b. Political Science c. Sociology d. Philosophy
_____ 13. Why are fossils and artifacts important in the study of biological evolution and cultural evolution?
a. Because they are the most important sources of information in the reconstruction of human evolution.
b. Because they categorize the group of early humans and other humanlike creatures that can walk erect during
the prehistoric times.
c. Because it includes culture of human beings
d. All of the above
_____ 14. Why are rules important in a society?
a. Because they are guides in the performance of roles and in everyday use.
b. Because it does not deal with either or conflict.
c. Because it does not take the usual assumptions about the conflict in a society
 d. All of the above
_____ 15. What is the relationship of society and culture?
a. A society cannot exist apart from culture.
b. People carry and transmit culture.
c. Each is distinguishable concept in which the pattern and organization of the whole is more important than any
of the component parts.
d. All of the above
_____ 16. What is the most fundamental, intrusive, and limiting social label attached to members of society?
a. Politics b. Culture c. Society d. Values
_____ 17. It refers to firmly held opinion or conviction, regardless of the lack of verifiable evidence.
a. Cultural change b. Political change c. Beliefs d. Society
_____ 18. These are person’s or a collectivity’s principles or standards of behavior and are considered as judgment of
what is important in life.
a. Values b. Society c. Cultural change d. Political change
_____ 19. It encompasses the complex processes and dynamics that characterize the great variety of “ways of living”
practiced and observed around the world
a. Values b. Society c. Cultural change d. Political change
_____ 20. “Significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time.” What does this statement best
describe?
a. Social change b. Social construct c. Cultural cringe d. Technological change
_____ 21. Which of the following is not an element of culture?
a. Food b. language c. geography d. religion
_____ 22. Why do people form communities?
a. They want to live and work where they feel safe. c. They want to live a part.
b. They want chaos. d. They want to go to concerts.
_____ 23. What is a society?
a. A diverse group of people who share a distinctive culture in a geographic location.
b. The beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular group, place, or time.
c. The activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and keeping power
in a government
d. All of the above
_____ 24. Hunting and gathering societies are:
a. Invented the internet c. were involved in global places
b. Ate a lot of fastfood d. lived off the resources that were directly around them such as animals
and vegetation
_____ 25. 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

_____ 26. Why is our membership in society not comparable to acquiring membership to an organization or association?
a. Because it requires to the total commitment of the roles, tasks, and expectations it puts on our shoulders as
bonafide members.
b. Because it is not defined by the person himself or herself alone.
c. Because individuals aggregate physically in a given space, they do not necessarily make a social group.
d. None of the above
_____ 27. The self is a product of social processes. Although people mature as biological entities, the development of
their selves is not a parallel process. What does this statement mean?
a. The self emerges from social interactions. c. A person’s personality is similar to his or herself.
b. Our status refers to what we do as a social person d. all of the above
_____ 28. The “self” is a sociological concept. It develops through _______________.
a. Social interactions b. self alone c. biological interactions d. inheritance
_____ 29. Why do status and role are considered to be as the important concepts of socialization?
a. Because the behavior of young members of society are controlled by assigning them certain status which they
will enact.
b. Because status is part of our social identity and helps define our relationship with others.
c. A only
d. Both A and B

_____ 30. How is culture ingrained in an individual?

 a. biological and cultural inheritance c. biological and sociological inheritance
b. sociological and cultural inheritance d. all of the above
_____ 31. What enables the individuals to create a personal identity that simultaneously separates them from the other
members of the group and incorporates them in its system?
a. compilation of the values, attitudes, and beliefs c. development of one’s self
b. mental condition d. none of the above
_____ 32. What promotes the idea that individuals construct their notion of the self through interactions performed within
a society?
a. theory on symbolic interactionism c. conflict theory
b. role learning theory d. functionalism theory
_____ 33. This theory argues that values exist to create unity and harmony within the structure and fulfill the needs of the
individuals.
a. theory on symbolic interactionism c. conflict theory
b. role learning theory d. functionalism theory
_____ 34. Why do norms have a coercive power over us?
a. Because things that exist in society independent of individual c. A only
b. Because it shapes our thoughts and behavior d. Both A & B
_____ 35. How do the process of socialization is being taught to us?
a. It was taught to us by those who are around us. C. Both A & B
b. We learn them through spoken and written directives. D. None of the above
_____ 36. It is culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful, and that serve
as broad guidelines for social living.
a. mores b. norms c. values d. deviance
______ 37. What happens when humans are capable of occupying various statuses simultaneously?
a. conflict arises b. mutual understanding c. happiness d. good performance
_____ 38. What implies when an individual is having difficulty in performing the role required of him or her?
a. role strain b. role set c. role performance d. none of the above
_____ 39. It is the act of following the roles and goals of one’s society.
a. conformity b. deviance c. roles d. status
_____ 40. What is needed to maintain social order and stability?
a. self-control b. social control c. ideal control d. none of the above
_____ 41. It is considered as powerful in leading an individual to conform social norms.
a. sanctions b. identity c. internalization d. role set
_____ 42. Why do sometimes role can be manipulated?
a. That which conforms to norms.
b. Reinforces the purely sociological facets of the self.
c. In order to produce a sort of desirable impression.
d. A social position that a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life.
_____ 43. Deviance lies not just in the behavior itself, but in the social responses of groups to the behavior of others. All
are reasons EXCEPT one.
a. The study of why people violate laws or norms. c. The study on expected rules and norms.
b. The study of how society reacts to this violation. d. The study on oneself.
_____ 44. Why is the meaning of a person’s social existence is not defined by the person himself or herself alone?
a. It is preset by society.
b. Through the various forms and mechanisms of socialization.
c. Individuals choose from the array of preset goals.
d. All of the above
_____ 45. Why do groups considered as “The Heart of Interaction”?
a. They share a common set of characteristics. c. They just gather in one place.
b. They don’t have the same interests. d. They just form a group with no reason.
_____ 46. Family is considered as a group. What group does it belongs?
a. Primary group b. Secondary group c. Reference group d. socialized group
_____ 47. All are ways in which societies develop kinship relationships EXCEPT one.
a. Based on birth or blood relations c. Through the acceptance of rituals
b. Based on marriage d. Through behavior
_____ 48. It is considered as the most basic and general form of relations based on blood.
a. Descent b. unilineal descent c. consanguineal kinship d. affinal kinship

_____ 49. How kinship can be studied?

 a. By analyzing the relationships that exist between persons.
b. Achieved by birth or blood affinity.
c. Formed between members of society.
d. Traced by most societies through a single line of ancestors from either the male and female line.
_____ 50. In the Philippines, political parties tend to align and forge cooperation with other stronger or with the
administration party to ensure victory in the elections or guarantee the passage of a legislation.
a. politics b. political dynasty c. political alliance d. politicians

ANSWERS:
1. C
2. A
3. A
4. BONUS
5. C
6. A
7. A
8. D
9. A
10. A
11. B
12. C
13. A
14. A
15. D
16. B
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. A
21. A
22. A
23. A
24. D
25. A
26. A
27. A
28. A
29. D
30. A
31. A
32. A
33. D
34. D
35. D
36. C
37. A
38. C
39. A
40. B
41. A
42. C
43. C
44. D
45. A
46. A
47. D
48. C
49. A
50. C