Society and Culture

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE

I. Identification. Correctly identify the following concepts. Wrong spelling will not be given any corresponding point(s).

1. It is a way of understanding that is based on science. 2. Spencer's application of evolutionary notions and the concept of survival of the fittest to the social world. 3. A body of systematically arranged knowledge that shows the operation of general laws 4. Marx's theory that development depends on the clash of contradictions and the creation of new structure. 5. the scientific study of human society and social interactions 6. An approach and contributed by Weber’s notions of the ideal type and a value-free sociology. 7. It is considered as the most popular, cheapest and widely used technique in social science 8. Referring to a complex whole, which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities acquired by man as a member of the society. 9. A component of culture pertains to all body of knowledge, skills, and other capabilities handed down from one generation to another. 10. It refers to the general rules, customary and habitual ways and patterns of expected behavior in the society. 11. Process of adopting the cultural traits and social patterns of another group 12. interaction in which two or more individuals work together to achieve a common goal 13. The self concept based on what you believe others think of you 14. This is a technique in which the researcher collects information through interaction of a tribe, community or a particular group. 15. Biological interbreeding of two people of distinct physical appearance until they become one group 16. Interaction in which two individuals follow mutually accepted rules, each trying to achieve the same goal before the other does. 17. Borrows the culture of another society and use it as part of own culture. 18. It is a feeling of confusion and disorientation that occur when a person encounters a strangely very different culture 19. A cultural fusion in which 2 groups behind their cultures so that they became one. 20. It pertains to the continuous practice of a cultural goal even if it has no longer any social need. 21. The primary determination of personal efficacy is the nature of ______________. 22. The process by which individuals act toward and react to others. 23. Interaction in which individuals disregard rules, each trying to achieve his goal by defeating with others. 24. A sociological concept that encompasses all forms of interaction through which people relate to one another. 25. An interaction in which individuals disregard any rules, each trying to achieve his goal by defeating the others.

II. Identify the following sociologist.

26. He is considered the mentor of August Comte. 27. According to him, Institutions are only ideas in action. 28. He is commonly credited as being the founder of sociology. 29. He suggested that the social sciences would become positive by being reduced to physics. 30. He favored positivism. 31. He depicted society as a system, a whole made up of interrelated parts. 32. The one who wrote the first book on social research methods. 33. He argued that Equality in fact would only upset the societies. 34. He focused his search for the basic principles of history on the economic environments in which societies develop. 35. He espoused the idea that a perfect society is where everyone is equal and where the working class has prevailed over the elite ruling class. 36. He believed that constraints on the individual’s potential are socially-based, not biologically-based. 37. He is emphasizing the idea of the bureaucracy in governments. 38. He developed the theory of social behaviorism. 39. According to him people in their everyday life are very much like actor performing in a stage. 40. He said that a critical aspect of the sociological enterprise is the study of the intentions, values, beliefs, and attitudes that underlie people's behavior.

III. TRUE OR FLASE: Determine if the following statements express True or False sociological idea. Write TRUE, if the statement is correct. If the statement states a wrong idea or thought, write FALSE.

41. It was during the latter part of the Age of Renaissance when the term "social sciences" was born.
42. Every individual is a member of the society, and inevitably his behaviors are affected by the accepted norms of the society.
43. Comte’s key insight was that societies had to be understood as complex systems.
44. Karl Marx argued that the existence of culture is the reason why people are divided into social classes.
45. Durkheim’s theory of suicide was based on the idea that the degree of social solidarity that could explain variations in suicide rates
46. Social norm encompasses almost all aspect of behavior in everyday activities.
47. Culture is a stationary thing.
48. No society is having a permanent culture because society continuously evolves from one period of time to another.
49. Culture borrowing can be described in a form ethnocentrism.
50. For George Mead, people change or develop their respective concept of self as they engage in social interaction.

IV. Enumeration (20 points)

51-53. major components of culture
54 - 55. Types of social norms
56-61. Characteristics of Culture
61-64. Evaluation of self-esteem
65-67. Mead’s three stages of child’s development
68-70. Types of social interaction