Prelim Exam in Social Science 100

(Understanding Culture, Society and Politics)

A. Y. 2019-2020

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; Mastering yourself is true power.”

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

TEST I-MULTIPLE CHOICE

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. (2 points each)

1. *Who established the supremacy of reason over imagination?

a. Rene Descartes b. Nicolaus Copernicus c. Francis Bacon d. Francois Lyotard
2. *Who was the father of modern philosophy?
a. Rene Descartes b. Nicolaus Copernicus c. Francis Bacon d. Francois Lyotard
3. *10What is the motto of enlightenment?
a. Man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage
b. Develop and change history
c. Have courage to use your own reason
d. Discipline concerning human beings.
4. *It means that social life is more and more subjected to calculation and prediction.
a. Rationalization b. Prediction c. Social Science d. Calculation
5. Who was the French sociologist points out that Science triumphed because it provided
reliable results?
a. Louis Pasteur b. Francois Lyotard c. Rene Descartes d. Francis Bacon
6. Which of the following DOES NOT describe social science?
a. It is a discipline concerning human beings.
b. It is an interdisciplinary subject which can be integrated to other fields.
c. It is dependent to natural sciences for its development
d. It is a science concerned with the expansion of human realms and possibilities.
7. Auguste Comte, the father of Sociology, believed to the association of sociology to
positivism. As a school of thought, how does positivism see science?
a. Science as a subject
b. Science as a valid way of knowing things
c. Science as a process
d. Science as a way to human destruction
8. Why is Social Science greatly influenced by theological reasoning?
a. Because of the people view of science.
b. Because of the dominance of religious worldview and authority.
c. Because of the growing population of members joining different denomination.
d. None of the above.
9. Emile Durkheim, a sociologist, believed that society possesses a reality (sui generis).
a. Society is in itself unique.
b. Society is an illusion.
c. Society is composed of people.
d. Society is merely an idea.
10. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital believed to the evils of capitalism. Which best summarizes his
work?
a. Capitalism is related to democracy.
b. The driving force of capitalism is in the capitalist exploitation of labor.
c. The society is better in the system of capitalism.
d. It is a work showing the life of some of the social scientists.
11. Emile Durkheim, a sociologist, believed that society is independent of its members.
What does he mean?
a. Society is a complex system.
b. Society is composed of many aggregates.
c. Society is an organization.
d. Society pre-existed and will continue to exist even one of its members has died.
12. All of the following are descriptive of Harriet Martineau, EXCEPT
a. She is the mother of sociology
b. She wrote a travelogue entitled, How to Observe Morals and Attitudes
c. She is an advocate of the role played by men in societal development.
d. She is physically disabled
13. Why did George Simmel describe the modern period as “the tragedy of culture”?
a. Because of the people’s growing individualism.
b. Because of the people’s rejection of culture.
c. Because of the people’s concept of money and banking system.
d. All of the above
14. Structural functionalism is the idea that societal structure is directly related to its
function. Which is not consistent of this idea?
a. The president presides the meeting.
b. A married couple reproduces offspring.
c. Classmates engage in pre-marital sex.
d. The priest preside a Holy Mass.
15. Which is NOT a basic idea of Anthropology as a Social Science?
a. It is the study of humans and their culture.
b. It is patterned to Charles Darwin’s human evolution.
c. It is patterned to Mathematics.
d. It was formalized by early thinkers of the field.

TEST II- IDENTIFICATION (1 point each)

______________1. *It is proclaimed the survival of the fittest and was used to justify the
domination of native people as well as the exploitation of the underclass in industrial
societies.
______________2. * A professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan who participated
in the first Philippine Commission in 1899 on the basis of his expertise on zoological
specimens .
______________3. An anthropologist advocated for the indigenization of social sciences.
______________4. A former professor at UP Diliman, recalled that the clamor for indigenization
was done through Sikolohiyang Pilipino that manifested its beginning in the 1960s.
______________5. It is concerned with critically examining relations between women and men,
and investigating how gender, embodiment and sexuality are produced through complexity
relays of power.
______________6. *The awareness of the social scientists of the ideological, political, and social
biases of their standpoints when doing research and publishing their works for the wider
public.
______________7. *A research involving the collection of data in numerical form.
______________8. A research uses a range of methods to focus on the meanings and
interpretation of social phenomenon and social process in the particular contexts.
______________9. *It is known as the geocentric.
______________10. *A system that applies to society, politics, culture, and the world that the
natural sciences, social sciences are confronted.

TEST III- ENUMERATION

Direction: For 10 points, enumerate the Eastern Philosophy and it’s importance.

Prepared by: Approved by:

AISHAH B. SANGCOPAN, LPT GEMMA L. PETALLO, Ph.D

Social Science Instructor Principal