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BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT- SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
School Year 2024-2025

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS

Diagnostic Test
General Directions:
1. This is a varied type of test that is composed of 30 items.
2. Proceed to the next item if the question confuses you but make sure not to leave it unanswered.
3. Review your answers before submitting the test.
4. Failure to follow any of the given directions below will result in losing the mark for that item.
5. CHEATING IS A SERIOUS OFFENSE

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Directions: Read each item carefully and choose the correct answer. Write the capital letter of your answer on the space provided.

_____ 1. Which of the following serves as the historical and cultural context of the birth of Sociology?
A. Reformation C. Inquisition Period
B. Renaissance D. Industrial Revolution
_____ 2. Which refers to the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person or another culture?
A. Enculturation C. Multiculturalism
B. Ethnocentrism D. Cultural Relativism
_____ 3. Which of the following is composed of people who share a common characteristic but do not necessarily interact or identify with one
another?
A. Primary group C. In-group social group
B. Secondary group D. Out-group social group
_____ 4. Which refers to one’s feeling of identity or affiliation with a group or culture?
A. Socialization C. Cultural identity
B. Ethnic identity D. Identity formation
_____ 5. What type of social position does a person received at birth?
A. Status C. Ascribed status
B. Master status D. Achieved status
_____ 6. What refer to objects that were made and used by humans?
A. Fossils C. Artifacts
B. Vestige D. Museums
_____ 7. Which refers to the fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange?
A. Xenophobia C. Necrophobia
B. Cynophobia D. Symbolophobia
_____ 8. Which of the following refers to a quality of the mind that enables its possessor to grasp the intersection of biography and history?
A. Political maneuvering C. Sociological imagination
B. Sociological perspective D. Anthropological wandering
_____ 9. Which of the following includes cultural idiosyncrasies?
A. Social diversity C. Cultural conflict
B. Cultural diversity D. Social stratification
_____ 10. Which of the following takes account of the “equal but different ways” of how people live in the world?
A. Sociology C. Anthropology
B. Psychology D. Political Science
_____ 11. Which argues that society is made possible by cooperation and interdependence?
A. Enculturation C. Structural functionalism
B. Cultural relativism D. Symbolic interactionism
_____ 12. Which of the following is NOT a manifest function of education?
A. Courtship C. Cultural innovation
B. Socialization D. Transmission of culture
_____ 13. Which of the following refers to the process where a minority culture adapts to the majority culture in a manner wherein the traditions
and customs of the minority community remain?
A. Acculturation C. Social Diffusion
B. Enculturation D. Social Diversity
_____ 14. What is the most fundamental, intrusive, and limiting social label attached to members of society?
A. Beliefs C. Gender
B. Values D, Culture
_____ 15. Which of the following is represented by new technological platforms facilitating communication, self-expression, and interactions?
A. Political change C. Sociological change
B. Cultural change D. Environmental change

TEST II. TRUE OR FALSE

Directions: Read each item carefully. Write T if the statement is correct, and F if incorrect. Write your answer on the space provided.

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_____ 16. Nation is the same as state.
_____ 17. An in-group is a typical example of a reference group.
_____ 18. Folkways are norms for routine and causal interaction.
_____ 19. Proscriptive norms are norms that state what people should do.
_____ 20. Transfer payments are normally carried out by the private sector.
_____ 21. Mores are rules that guide the behavior of members of society or group.
_____ 22. Deviance is an aberrant behavior and a deviation from the norms of society.
_____ 23. Animism is a form of belief that views nature as having life that affects humanity.
_____ 24. Renaissance served as the historical and cultural context of the birth of Sociology.
_____ 25. Values refers to norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
_____ 26. When one culture starts to adopt elements of another, cultural assimilation happens.
_____ 27. Social stratification is a universal concept that can be found in all societies in the world.
_____ 28. A blended family is made up of children together with biological parents and step parents.
_____ 29. Social mobility refers to a system wherein society categorizes its members in a hierarchy.
_____ 30. Anthropology is a social science discipline pejoratively labelled as “a child of colonization”.

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics| Diagnostic Test

ANSWER KEY
TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. D
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. C

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 7. A
8. C
9. D
10. C
11. C
12. A
13. A
14. C
15. B

TEST II. TRUE OR FALSE

16. F
17. T
18. T
19. F
20. T
21. F
22. T
23. T
24. F
25. F
26. T
27. T
28. T
29. F
30. T

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