PACIFIC SOUTHBAY COLLEGE, INC.
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS
JOBERLIE A. RICAFRENTE, LPT MIDTERM (1ST SEM 2024-2025)
NAME:__________________________COURSE&YEARLEVEL:_________________DATE:__________
General Instructions: You are given 1 hour and 15 minutes to finish the exam. Read and understand the
questions carefully. Avoid erasures or any form of alteration. Failure to follow instructions shall nullify your
answers. Good luck!
Test I.
Direction: Identify the answer of the following statement.
___________1. It is concerned with the relationship of the individual to the group, members consider
themselves independent from others.
___________2. It is concerned with the extent to which a community accepts and endorses authority,
power differences, and status privileges.
___________3. Is concerned with the extent to which uncertainty is tolerated and the preference for
rules and order. Members are comfortable with ambiguous and unknown situations. They are tolerant
of change. Members hold multiple ideas as valid and accept different viewpoints. They are
contemplative, emotionally stable, and relaxed.
___________4. Concerned with the extent to which a society differentiates gender roles.
___________5. The extent to which people are assertive, confrontational, and aggressive in social
relationships.
___________6. How a society approaches and manages time.
___________7. The extent to which individuals fit into their inatural and social world, or try to master
and change it.
____________8. The extent to which social norms encourage the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure.
____________9. A transformation of cultures, institutions, and functions. Most change isn’t
instantaneous.
____________10. The study of human society and cultures through a comparative lens.
____________11. Is the culture of the most powerful group in the society.
___________12. A cultures of groups whose values and norms of behavior differ from those of the
dominant culture.
____________13. A family in which multiple members are involved in politics — particularly electoral
politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage; often several generations or multiple siblings
may be involved.
____________14. Are populism, culture, colored revolution, starvation, modular politics, war, military,
succession, emigration, and social phenomena. Populism: It is a political approach towards people who feel
that their concerns are not heard or respected.
____________15. The systematic interpretation of codes and conducts in the form of
language, symbols, face expressions, dress, food, music etc. used by people in society.
II. DEFINITION OF TERMS. Define the following word/words in each sentences. (4pts. Each)
16. Territory-
17. Gender-
18. Society-
19. Anthropology-
20. Conflict-
III. MATCHING TYPE Instruction: Match column A and column B according to the definition given below.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
_____21.is concerned with the relationship a. Uncertainty avoidance
of the individual to the group, members
b. Power Distance
consider themselves independent from others.
_____23.concerned with the extent to which c. Individualism vs. Collectivism
uncertainty is tolerated
and the preference for rules and order. d. Gender Egalitarianism
_____24.concerned with the extent to which
a society differentiates gender roles. e. Assertiveness
_____25.concerned with the extent to which a
community accepts and endorses authority, f. Indulgence Vs. Restraint
power differences, and status privileges.
_____26.concerned with the extent to which individuals g. Orientation to Time
fit into their unnatural and social world,
or try to master and change it. h. Being Vs. Doing
_____27.concerned with the extent to which individuals
fit into their unnatural and social world, or try to master and change it.
_____28.concerned with the extent to
which social norms encourage the I. cultural variation
pursuit of hedonistic pleasure.
_____29.concerned with the extent to which people are J. Anthropology
assertive, confrontational, and
aggressive in social relationships.
____30. The study of human society and cultures through a comparative lens.
