Culture, Society, and Politics

Question 1

_____ is defined as sameness of essential or generic character in different instances or sameness in all that constitutes the objective reality of a thing.

Answer 1

Identity

Question 2

____ is the distinctive characteristic that defines an individual or is shared by those belonging to a particular group.

Answer 2

Identity

Question 3

____ is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group.

Answer 3

Cultural Identity

Question 4

____ is a shared sense of custom, language, belief, and behavior.

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

___ is how people relate to others. This is important as it affects the relationship building and the interaction between two persons.

Answer 5

Culture Identity

Question 6

____ is also a sense of belonging, but it is not focusing on culture but wider criteria including descent, language, culture, and religion.

Answer 6

National Identity

Question 7

______ gives individuals a greater sense of shared citizenship.

Answer 7

Cosmopolitanism

Question 8

A ______ is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory.

Answer 8

Society

Question 9

_____ is associated with how power is gained and employed to develop authority and influence in social affairs.

Answer 9

Politics

Question 10

____ is the ability to influence others. It gives authority to lead.

Answer 10

Power

Question 11

____ is attained through obedience on the rules set by the leaders.

Answer 11

Order

Question 12

_____ is felt in a society in order.

Answer 12

Justice

Question 13

It is the study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and present.

Answer 13

Anthropology

Question 14

These study the norms and values of societies.

Answer 14

Social anthropology and Cultural anthropology (socio-cultural)

Question 15

The science of humanity.

Answer 15

Anthropology

Question 16

Studies the biological development of humans. These focus on human body development.

Answer 16

Biological or Physical Anthropology

Question 17

It is a social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them.

Answer 17

Sociology

Question 18

The science of the origin and development, structure and functions of social group.

Answer 18

Sociology

Question 19

Anthropologists and archaeologists use these to find out what happened in the past.

Answer 19

Fossils and artifacts

Question 20

Differentiate fossils from artifacts.

Answer 20

(any answer as long nakuha ung point)

• Fossils are the remains (bones) of living beings.
• Artifacts are the things or materials created or used by the early people.

Question 21

The study of the state and the government. It studies how power is being exercised and distributed

Answer 21

Political science

Question 22

As a social science, political science focuses on ____, the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of collective decision-making.

Answer 22

Group power

Question 23

Enumerate the 3 Branches of Government

Answer 23

• Executive
• Legislative
• Judiciary

Question 24

This branch of government consists of the President, Vice President, and cabinet members. They are in charge of approving the laws.

Answer 24

Executive

Question 25

This branch of government consists of the senators, congressmen, etc. They are in charge of creating bills to make a law.

Answer 25

Legislative

Question 26

This branch of government consists of chief justices, associate justices, etc. They are in charge of executing and implementing the laws.

Answer 26

Judiciary

Question 27

What is the Greek word for 'companion'?

Answer 27

socius

Question 28

What is the Greek word for 'to study'?

Answer 28

logos

Question 29

He is the person who invented the word 'sociology' in 1842 by bringing the Greek word 'socius' and 'logos'.

Answer 29

Auguste Comte

Question 30

He believes that society is governed by certain laws, just as how scientists are governed by the laws of nature.

Answer 30

Auguste Comte

Question 31

An approach to understanding the world based from science.

Answer 31

Positivism

Question 32

He is the forerunner of Conflict theory and reiterated that political revolution was vital in the evolutionary process of society --- the only means to achieve improvement of social conditions.

Answer 32

Karl Marx

Question 33

He views conflict as the source of social change.

Answer 33

Karl Marx

Question 34

He likened society to an organism, with life and vitality of its own.

Answer 34

Herbert Spencer

Question 35

He first used the word 'survival of the fittest', when he proposed the policy of non-interference in human affairs and society.

Answer 35

Herbert Spencer

Question 36

He is the first French sociologist. He put forward the idea that individuals are more the products rather than the creators of society; the society itself is external to the individual.

Answer 36

Emile Durkheim

Question 37

He is a German sociologist and the most important proponent of interpretive sociology.

Answer 37

Max Weber

Question 38

What does 'Verstehen' mean?

Answer 38

Sympathetic (or empathetic) understanding of the mind of others.

Question 39

He asserted that religion is very influential in the actions and thoughts of people.

Answer 39

Max Weber

Question 40

Meaning of actions when studying social trends and problems.

Answer 40

Interpretive sociology

Question 41

Who is the pioneer of 'Verstehen'?

Answer 41

Max Weber

Question 42

Who is the pioneer of 'Conflict Theory'?

Answer 42

Karl Marx

Question 43

Who is the pioneer of 'Survival of the fittest'?

Answer 43

Herbert Spencer

Question 44

Who is the pioneer of 'Individuals are the product of society'?

Answer 44

Emile Durkheim

Question 45

Who is the pioneer of 'Positivism'?

Answer 45

Auguste Comte

Question 46

It is a group of people living in a community with common culture.

Answer 46

Society

Question 47

He is a sociologist that defines society as "...a human product, and nothing but a human product, that yet continuously acts upon its producers."

Answer 47

Peter L. Berger

Question 48

It is "that complex whole encompasses beliefs, practices. values, attitudes, laws, and norms, and artifacts, symbols and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society."

Answer 48

Culture

Question 49

Tangible. It is meant to be used. It is the physical aspect of culture in the objects and architecture that surround people. These include homes, neighborhoods, cities, schools, churches, synagogues, etc.

Answer 49

Material culture

Question 50

Intangible. It is meant to be practiced. It refers to the non-physical ideas that people have about their culture. These include beliefs, values, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations, and institutions.

Answer 50

Non-material culture

Question 51

Enumerate the 7 Aspects of Culture.

Answer 51

1. Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive 2. Shared and Contested 3. Learned through Socialization and Enculturation 4. Patterned Social Interactions 5. Integrated and at Times Unstable 6. Transmitted through Socialization/Enculturation 7. Requires Language and other Forms of Communication

Question 52

Cultural behaviors permit humans to fit into and adapt to their respective environment. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 52

Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive

Question 53

This means that the ideas, activities, and artifacts are shared in common by the various members of a society or group. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 53

Shared and Contested

Question 54

The behavior patterns that constitute a specific culture are not genetically or biologically determined. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 54

Learned through Socialization and Enculturation

Question 55

Through the process of ______, the child eventually acquires the prevailing attitudes and beliefs, the forms of behavior appropriate to the social role he occupies, and the behavior patterns and values of the society into which he is born.

Answer 55

Socialization (or enculturation)

Question 56

Social interaction, a commonly viewed implies theory of reciprocity, complementary, and mutuality of response. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 56

Patterned Social Interactions

Question 57

For any society or group, the various ideas, activities and artifacts are not only shared, but the arrangements of them more or less fit together and interlock to form a consistent whole. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 57

Integrated and at Times Unstable

Question 58

Being acquired by learning, cultural ideas, activities, and artifacts are handed down by from generation to generation as a super-organic inheritance. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 58

Transmitted through Socialization/Enculturation

Question 59

Language is a shared set of spoken (often written) symbols and rules for combining those symbols in meaningful ways. (Aspect of Culture)

Answer 59

Requires Language and other Forms of Communication

Question 60

Language has been called ''____".

Answer 60

The storehouse of culture

Question 61

It has been called 'the storehouse of culture'.

Answer 61

Language

Question 62

It is the primary means of capturing, communicating, discussing, changing, and passing shared understandings to new generation (and new citizens).

Answer 62

Language

Question 63

Studies how language affects social life. (focuses on symbol, language)

Answer 63

Linguistic Anthropology

Question 64

List the importances of material and non-material culture.

Answer 64

(basta nakuha ung point) - It shows the rich history and culture of the early people. - It prepares the culture for the next generation.