Department of Education

Region III
Division of Zambales
LIPAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Magsaysay Park, Poblacion South, Sta. Cruz, Zambales
PERIODICAL EXAMINATION
DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Name: ____________________________________________ Section: ________________ Score: ___________
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read each statement carefully then 17. Which of the following describes the scope of political science?
choose the best answer. Encircle the letter of your choice. a. Study of political behavior and thoughts
1. Consists of the disciplined and systematic study of society and its b. Study of government
institutions, and how and why people behave as they do, both as c. Study of international relations
individuals and in groups within society. d. All of the above.
a. Political Science b. Psychology 18. Which political science discipline focuses its study on the political
c. Social Science d. Sociology systems of foreign countries?
2. Social Science answers how and why people behave. a. International relations
a. True b. False b. Comparative politics
3. Social Science study of how people process and document the human c. Political institutions
experience. d. None of the answers are correct
a. True b. False 19. Which phrase best describes the purpose of health psychology?
4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about natural science and Social a. Health psychology seeks help for people suffering from mental
Science? diseases.
a. Social Science uses scientific paradigm in studying society while b. Health psychology works against the medical community and for the
natural science uses the tools of empirical deduction and rational patient.
induction c. Health psychology attempts to educate and inform patients,
b. Understands natural phenomena based on observation preventing or alleviating physical problems by helping people to take
c. Social Science explains why people behaves the way they do. control of their total well-being.
d. NONE OF THE ABOVE d. None of the answers describe the purpose of health psychology.
5. Which of the following is NOT true about Humanities? 20. Which of the following disciplines of Social Sciences encompasses the
a. Humanities documents human experience study of the size, structure and distribution of populations, and how
b. Humanities like Social Science aim to understand and create populations change over time due to births, deaths, migration, and
meanings. aging?
c. Humanities studies human products such as Arts. a. Linguistic b. Geography c. History d. Demography
d. NONE OF THE ABOVE 21. Which of the following disciplines of Social Sciences will teach you about
6. It is a holistic discipline concerned with all humans, at all times, in all the features of the earth and the location of living things on the planet?
humanity‘s dimensions– a study of the totality of human existence. a. Linguistic b. Geography c. History d. Demography
a. Anthropology b. Sociology c. Psychology d. Pol Sci. 22. Which of the following disciplines of Social Sciences is used to be
7. Social Science that deals with production, distribution and consumption defined as "a study of mind and soul"?
of good and services. a. Linguistic b. Economics c. Psychology d. Pol Sci.
a. Linguistic b. Economics c. Psychology d. Pol Sci. 23. Which of the following is a characteristic of anthropology?
8. It is the discipline that looks at the cognitive and social aspects of human a. It is concerned with both human culture.
language. b. It is concerned with human variation, evolution, and adaptation.
a. Linguistic b. Economics c. Psychology d. Pol Sci. c. It also studies prehistoric societies.
9. It is a sub-discipline of social science that deals with the study of how d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
people gain knowledge. 24. Which of the following best describe how anthropologists primarily learn
a. Law b. Education d. Religion d. Criminology new information about humans?
10. What do educational psychologists do? a. field works like intervies
a. Develop and conduct standardized testing. b. laboratory experiments
b. Offer personal counseling to students. c. reading travelers accounts
c. Offer career and academic counseling to students. d. none of the above
d. All of these are possible job requirements for an educational 25. He is recognize as the father of modern scientific psychology.
psychologist. a. John B. Watson b. Wilhelm Wund
11. Participant Observation is done when an anthropologist live together with c. William James d. Sigmund Freud
the group that he studies in order to have a firs- hand experience of their 26. Karl Marx is the sociologist who coined the name Sociology
culture a. True b. False
a. True b. False 27. The sociological framework that analyzes societies as a sum of its parts
12. Sociology comes from the Latin word Socius that means group is known as what?
a. True b. False a. Conflict theory
13. Geography only covers the study of human race, people’s background, b. Structural functionalism
how they interact, and the perception that they have for various c. Symbolic interactionism
ideologies affecting them d. None of these are correct
a. True b. False 28. One The functionalist theory of stratification argues that:
14. Humanities will teach people how to appreciate the product of human a. stratification is functional for individuals.
a. True b. False b. it is functional for the best jobs to have very high rewards
15. Demographic information consists of: c. it is functional for the worst jobs to have the worst rewards.
a. Age b. Sex or gender d. stratification is functional for society as a whole
c. Education level d. All of the answers are correct 29. These are the recognized and intended consequences of any social
16. Which of these is true of archaeology? pattern.
a. It deals only with written record. a. Social Dysfunction b. Manifest Function
c. Latent Function d. None of the above
b. It deals only with human diseases
30. These are the unrecognized and unintended positive consequences of
c. It deals only with modern culture
any social pattern.
d. It deals with cultures before and after the advent of writing. a. Social Dysfunction b. Manifest Function
 c. Latent Function d. None of the above 49. According to SI, people act toward other people and things based on the
31. Structural Functionalism states that it is social institution, organization meaning we interpret from them.
and culture keep people from destroying themselves. a. True b. False
a. True b. False 50. When we see ourselves through the eyes of another, we are illustrating
32. Which of the following approaches thinks of society as an organism? which concept of Symbolic Interactionism?
a. Marxism Approach a. dialectic connection
b. Structural Functionalist Approach b. self-appraisal
c. Symbolic Interactionist Approach c. looking-glass self
d. None of the Above d. self-fulfilling
Identify whether the statement is manifest function, latent function or
dysfunction of the given social pattern. Write MF if it is manifest function,
LF if latent function and DF if the statement is a dysfunction.
33. Fiesta- Traffic Jam that will cause students and employees to be late in
school and/or work.
34. Having a job- Earning money and able to buy basic needs.
35. Teenagers attending religious activities regularly- being with good people
that will give positive effect in once life.
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read each statement carefully then choose the best
answer. Encircle the letter of your choice.

36. Which two philosophers developed the principal concept of Marxism?

a. Engels and Voltaire b. Marx and Engels
c. Marx and Aristotle d. Plato and Aristotle
37. In Marxist theory, those who own property and the means of production
are the _____.
a. wealthy b. proletariat c. bourgeoisie d. nihilists
38. Which of the following approaches thinks there are conflicts between
classes?
a. Marxism Approach
b. Structural Functionalist Approach
c. Symbolic Interactionist Approach
d. None of the Above
39. In Marxist theory, _____ is the belief that the arrangement of the
bourgeoisie owning the means of production and the proletariat working
for the interests of the bourgeoisie is legitimate.
a. false consciousness b. left realism
c. postmodern criminology d. false realism
40. In Marxism, the idea that power originates primarily in economic
production.
a. True b. False
41. Democratic socialists and social democrats reject the idea that socialism
can be accomplished through class conflict and a proletarian revolution.
a. True b. False
42. He developed a clear definition of symbolic interactionism and coined the
term "symbolic interactionism”
a. Max Weber b. George Mead
c. Herbert Blumer d. Charles Cooley
43. In the library, Louise observes a woman sitting at a table by herself. A
man comes up and sits at the other end of the table. The woman frowns
and shakes her head "no." The man gets up and moves to another table.
Louise concludes that the woman did not want to share a study table.
The theoretical perspective Louise is using is the _________.
a. The conflict perspective
b. The functionalist perspective
c. The interactionist perspective
d. PostmodernismIt
44. Who wrote the book The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism which
became the theoretical root of symbolic interactionism?
a. Max Weber b. George Mead
c. Herbert Blumer d. Charles Cooley
45. Michael believes he is a good photographer, but his friends don't agree.
He decided not to exhibit his photographs, thinking that his friends might
be right. Michael's experiences reflect which concept of Symbolic
Interactionism?
a. dialectic connection b. self-appraisal
c. looking-glass self d. self-fulfilling
46. According to Mead, “Me” is the self as a thinking, breathing, active
subject in society.
a. True b. False
47. In SI, people learn symbols and meanings that allow them to think
through interaction.
a. True b. False
48. Charles Cooley’s looking-glass self that 5 basic principles.
a. True b. False