UCSP Practice Exam part 1

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UCSP Practice Exam

Prepare for your understanding of culture, society, and politics with our UCSP Practice Exam! This quiz consists of 50 engaging questions that challenge your knowledge and comprehension of various social science disciplines.

Key Features:

Comprehensive coverage of social sciences
Diverse question formats
Ideal for students and anyone interested in cultural studies

50 Questions12 MinutesCreated by ExploringMind42

The product of human processes intended to meet basic needs for survival. These are people who share a common territory and are individuals interacting with each other. Important product of human interaction and interconnectedness.

Is the discipline to understand society / study of social behavior or society. A social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation...

The discipline to understand politics. It is a social science dealing with a systematic study of the state and government.

Refers to the complex whole. It is a way of life. It thrives in a society as it is a system acquired by man.

The struggle between and among actors with conflicting desires and authoritative allocation of values. It is the theory, art, and practice of the government. The exercise of PRAI (Power, Rule, Authority, Influence).

The discipline utilized to understand culture. This dates back to the period of discoveries and explorations. Promotes a holistic study of humans. The branch of knowledge which deals with the scientific study of man, his/her works, body...

A branch of Anthropology that deals with the biological tractors of culture including its development. Focuses on the evolution of human anatomy and physiology.

Is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. It seeks to understand the relations between personal and sociocultural phenomena.

A branch of Anthropology that deals with the material culture of past societies like artifacts.

A field of study that studies the lifeways and traditions of human groups. It employs ethnography as a means to study and record...

Concerned with the languages of all people as it is the chief vehicle through which man preserves and transmits his culture from generation to generation.

A person will live with the natives and learn their culture. “Inside looking”/going to the place.

The study or description of a particular language or culture that is general, nonstructural, and objective in its perspective. “outside looking”

Is the comparative study of ethnographic data, society and culture. The study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them. It is the study of the everyday life of people which compares two or more cultures.

Is the in depth study of a particular cultural group. This is the systematic study of people and cultures that provides descriptive accounts designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study. It describes one culture.

Refers to the process through which we learn about the culture we live in. It is the process whereby individuals learn their group's culture through experience, observation, and instruction. An individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values.

Is a process through which a person or group from one culture comes to adopt the practices and values of another culture, while still retaining their own distinct culture.

This theorizes that our language use shapes our perspective of the world, people who speak different languages have different views of the world. It emphasizes that language either determines or influences one's thoughts.

It is a norm that have patterns of repetitive behaviour which becomes habitual and conventional part of living.

A norm that has ethical standards and moral obligations. These are society’s highest form of values.

Composed of tangible things that usually comes in the form of technology and art.

Refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. In short, cultural appreciation.

It is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination

Set of guidelines that instructs people. These are established expectations of society as to how a person is supposed to act.

Father of Sociology

Father of Anthropology

Studied the social factors that underline suicide

Coined the term the survival of the fittest and became known for social Darwinism.

He believed that a complete understanding of culture must contain explanations not only of specific cultures but also of cultural elements and patterning’s that transcend specific cultures.

He believed that human beings have a set of universal biological needs and various customs and institutions are developed to fulfil those needs.

Introduced anthropology in the Philippines and was elevated as an academic discipline at UP.

Founder of the conflict perspective, believed that class conflict—the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie—was the key to human history.

Society is a total complex of human relationships in so far as they grow out of the action in terms of means-end relationship

Society is an exchange of gestures that involves the use of symbols.

Sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.

A theory that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources.

Perspective is based on the notion that people make sense of their social worlds through communication and social interaction - the exchange of meaning through symbols and language.

Analysis level of Structural Functionalist Perspective

Analysis level of Social Conflict Theory

Analysis level of Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

Using our own culture (and assuming it to be good, right and superoir) to judge other cultures

Trasmission of Cultural characteristics

Using one's body to communicate with others

Refers to situations in which not all parts of a culture change at the same pace.

1 consequence of cultural diffusion, the process in which cultures become similar to one another.

Consists of a system of symbols that can be put together in an infinite amount of ways to communicate abstract thought.

Refers to the ideal values and norms of people

Refers to the norms and values that people actually follow

Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life

It is a culturally based tendency to value other cultures more highly than one's own, which can materialize in a variety of different ways.

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