Assignment 01

Rationalism refers to the approach that emphasizes experience and the facts that result from
observation and experimentation.

False

Sociology is not a pure science.

True

Rationalism is a stressed reason and the theories that result from logical inference.

True

Sociology only studies human activities in a general way.

True

Sociology is a physical science. It concentrates on man, his social behavior, social activities and
social life.

False

Short Quiz 01

A "social science that is concerned with human culture as well as the physical and social
characteristics that create that culture."

Anthropology

A Latin term which means companion or associate

Socius
It is a science that says that social matters: our lives are affected not only by our individual
characteristics but by our place in the social world.

Sociology

The data analyzed by sociologists are used by government officials and market researchers.

True

Analysis of data from a specific study is the concern of ______________________.

Sociology

Anthropology and Sociology are different sciences that deals with human beings and their
characteristics.

True

A "scientific study of human society, its origin, structure, function and direction"

Sociology
Sociology focuses on the big picture of human culture.

False

It refers to the way daily life is organized so as to accommodate large groups of people.

Rationalization
IDENTIFICATION: A Greek term that means "study"

Logos

Assignment 02
He was the founder of Sociology.

Auguste Comte
Sociologist who focused on how industrial revolution changed the thoughts and action and how it
brought about a process called rationalization.
Max Weber
The first Filipino to acquire a doctorate degree in Sociology and published a book entitled: "An
Introduction to Sociology" in 1938.

Serfin M. Macaraig
A native German who proposed the idea that industrialization resulted in two classes: owners and
laborers.

Karl Marx
English sociologist who proposed that there is parallelism between how society evolves in the same
manner as animal species do.

Herbert Spencer

Short Quiz 02
The first Filipino who has acquired a doctorate degree in Sociology

Serafin M. Macaraig

The belief that all social groups are systems whose parts are interdependent is a characteristic of:

Functionalism

The first school in the Philippines which offered a bachelor's degree in sociology

University of the Philippines

He developed the idea and coined the term “Sociology”

 Auguste Comte
Conflict Theory is primarily based on the work of:

Emile Durkheim

The sociological imagination:

helps individuals to understand the true origins and character of the problems they face.

According to Robert Merton, the obvious function we openly intend a social system to perform are
________________.

Manifest functions

From the symbolic interaction perspective, which of the following is a symbol?

All of them are symbols

It is the study of society and human behavior.

Social Science attempts to comprehend, explain and predict events in our natural environment.

False

Assignment 03

This is a struggle between segments of society over valued resources.

Social conflict

societies started the domestication and breeding of animals for food.

pastoral societies

The  Societies use hand tools to raise crops.

Horticultural
These societies use advanced sources of energy, rather than human and animals, to run large
machinery.

Industrial Societies
This is the historical change from tradition - sentiments and beliefs passed from one generation to
another to rationality - deliberate, matter-of-fact calculation of the cost effective means to accomplish
a task as a dominant mode of human thought.

rationalization of society

Short Quiz 03
A group of people living in one place, interacting with one another and have the same culture.

Society

Job specialization was increased in this society.

 Agricultural society
Industrial society focuses on higher education as required by the advancement of technology.

False

The domestication of plants and animals led to the birth of what society?

Horticultural and pastoral society

He believes that conflict characterizes society.

Marx

Weber believes in predestination and God’s favor, religious ethic and transformed to work ethic.

True

The kind of society that displays a high level of interdependence among its members.

Hunting and gathering society

He said that social facts, any patterns rooted in society rather than the experience of individuals.

Durkheim

Technology, when acquired by a society, causes it to change.

True

Lenski said that sociocultural evolution is the change that occurs as a society acquires new
technology.

True

Short Quiz 04
In German, it means "intimate communities"

Gemeinschaft

Which of these is an example of a secondary group?

business associates

We are in a special interest group if we stay together to meet our interests as its members.

True

Family is an example of a primary group

True

Social organization is an example of a formal group

True

An individual feels at home within this social unit.

A collection of people who happen to be at the same place and at the same time but have no other
connection to one another.

Aggregate

They are people who have something in common and who believe that what they have in common is
significant.

Group

This refers to an unplanned group

  informal group

Main characteristic of a group

. members interact regularly through communication

Long Quiz 01
During the stage, man used simple tools to hunt animals.

Hunting and gathering stage

He described society as beyond individuals’ personal experiences.

Emile Durkheim
This refers to the visible part of the culture.

Material culture

This refers to micro level analysis (sociological perspective).

Symbolic interactionism

Which of the following is considered a “taboo”?

all of the choices

Which is not included in Max Weber’s Rational Social Organization?

Disillusionment

political organization:state= financial organization: _________

bank

What component of culture involves its representations of reality?

Symbols

Which of the following is true about Max Weber?

He focused on how industrialized revolution changed people’s thoughts and action.

This is the scientific study of human society, its origin, structure, function, and direction.
Sociology

Who authored “Society in America”?

Harriet Martineau

He proposed what is called as “rationalization of society”.

Max Weber

What component of culture makes human life easier (e.g. mass production of goods)?

Technology

Sociology is considered as a _____ social science when most theories are based on polls, statistical
analysis, sampling, and large collections of life histories.

Quantitative

He looked at society as which is in conflict.

Karl Marx

A Latin term which means “companion” or “associate”.

Socius

Intangible and that which influences the behavior

Non-material culture

The sociologist who focused on class struggles.

Karl Marx

Refers to judging other cultures against the standards of one’s culture

Ethnocentrism

The people who own and operate factories and other businesses in pursuit of profits.

Capitalists

Who proposed the Philosophical position of positivism?

Auguste Comte

A rule that guides our behavior.

Norm

A culture which respects cultural variations

Multiculturalism

The experience of isolation and misery resulting from powerlessness

Alienation

Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by government.

“sui generis” means _______

Unique

Which of the following is NOT true about the nature of sociology?

Sociology is a physical science.

He believed that society has an “objective reality”.

 Emile Durkheim

It is the change that occurs as a society acquires new technology.

Socio-cultural evolution

This is defined as the study of humankind using facts, hypothesis, and, and theories.

Anthropology

Assignment 04

These are written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by government.

Laws

Folkways are also known as customs.

True

Technology is a cultural component that helps make life easier.

True

consists of people who interact to share a common culture.

Society

These refer to the cultural representations of reality which give meanings to events and objects.

Symbols

Short Quiz 05

Every exchange with a client is a cross-cultural one.

True

What do you call a culture within the dominant culture?

Subculture

It is a group of people with shared territory, interaction and culture

Society

Role models and mentors remain basically the same among cultures.

False
In working with clients from other cultural backgrounds, the IT specialist may find that the client is not
fluent in English. The IT specialist recognizes this as an appropriate strategy for communicating with
clients who are not fluent in English.

incorporating appropriate hand gestures and pictures

The tendency to view other cultures by the standards of one's own culture.

Ethnocentrism

In order to fit into their new society, however, members must give up some of their original traditions.
This process is called ______________.

Assimilation

The defining element of a society is ___________________.

Culture

The way a person reacts to health and illness is an attitude and perception that involve all other
cultural components.

True

What are values?

All of these

Assignment 05

Abandons both the cultural goals and prescribed means to achieve them, but tries to set up new
norms or goals.

Rebel

A theory which says that deviant behavior is caused by breakdown of norms, laws, mores, and other
important values of the society.

social disorganization

Crime committed by a company or corporation or people acting on its behalf. An example of this is
violation of environmental laws.

corporate crime

Abandons both the cultural goals and the prescribed means to achieve them.

Retreatist

Are rewards to those who conform to norms.

positive sanctions

Short Quiz 06

It is a violation of a written law.

Crime
It is a crime borne from the offense committed by ordinary people against other people or
organizations, usually in public spaces.

Street crime

Deviance is a relative issue and may differ based on location, age, social status, and individual
societies.

True

Merton's Theory said that when people are prevented from achieving culturally approved goals
through institutionalized means, they experience strain that can lead to deviance.

True

Kind of crime that is illegal because it is committed by the youth.

Status crime

The theory that states that labeling on behavior by society is a deviance and causes deviant
behavior.

Labeling Theory

It is a way society has of encouraging conformity to norms. It consists of positive and negative
sanctions.

Social control

It is the violation of the norms of society 

Deviance

The law also known as "Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002."

Republic Act No. 9165

The sociologist whose theoretical paradigm views society as struggle between groups over limited
resources is _____________.

Karl Marx

Assignment 06

Theory of Looking-Glass Self states how other people's expectations become the venue for
acquiring social roles.

True

Moral development is a continual process that takes place throughout a person's lifespan.

True

According to Freud, the conscious mind shapes the behavior of a person.

False
Which of the following agents of socialization can help develop a person's self-sense?

family

Which theory states how social interactions cause the emergence of the self?

Theory of the Social Self

Short quiz 07

It is the process whereby we learn to become competent members of a group.

Socialization

Piaget posited four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete

True

Who developed a theory which posited that "self" is a product of social experience?

Mead

It is the learning from the experiences that we have from the people who raised us.

Primary socialization

He developed the notion of looking-glass self.

Cooley

The agent of socialization that orients us with the necessary experiences so that we develop our
self-sense.

Family

Socialization is also a form of a social control

 True

They are virtual means of socialization

Media and technology

Freud theorized that the development of the id, ego, and superego occurs over time and that the
three must be in balance.

True

This happens one one starts schooling or works for a job.

Secondary socialization
Long Quiz 02

The regulation and enforcement of norms to maintain social order.

Social control

States that the unconscious mind shapes the behavior of a person.

psychoanalytic theory

States that moral development is a continual process that occurs throughout our lifespan.

moral development theory

An agent of socialization that influences beliefs about sexuality, including the likelihood of tolerance
for gay and lesbian sexuality.

Religion

_______ states that bhaviors are tagged or labelled as proper or improper, moral or immoral, good
or bad.

labeling theory

An offense committed by ordinary people against other people or organizations, usually in public
places.

Street crime

Crime which committed by people occupying high position.

white collar crime

introduces the person to the expectations of society. They orient us with the necessary experiences
so that the child develops self-sense.

Family

Dominant tools for socialization which help children acquire new language, values, and behaviors
from what they read, see, and hear.

Media

Any violation of the norms of the society.

Deviance

Socialization happes in different stages of mind development--from infancy to adolescence or

cognitive development theory

This offense includes underaged drinking.

status crime
Tells individuals that they learn to take the role of others. The expectation of others forms the venue
for acquiring social roles.

Theory of Looking-Glass Self

_______ states that individuals learn deviant behavior from those who are close to them who
provide them models of and opportunities for deviance.

differential association theory

Crime
The process by which children and adults learn from others skills, knowledge, norms and values of
their society.

Socialization
A theory by Shaw and McKay, which concludes that socioeconomic status correlated to race and
ethnicity resulted in a higher crime rate.

cultural deviance theory

theory of the social self

Ritualist
states that the rules of society are stacked in favor of a privileged few who manipulate them to stay
on top.

power elite theory

Assignment 07
Common-law marriage does not require the partners to live together.

False

Marriage does not exist in all of the cultures

False

refers to the practice in which the newly married couple chooses to stay with the wife's family
household.

Matrilocality
is the approved social unit for producing members who have died or moved away.

Family
Refers to marriage between one woman and more than one man.

Polyandry

Short Quiz 08
This law states that women are more empowered in their household and become more economically
productive.

Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health act of 2012

Polygamy is marrying only one woman.

False

A man marrying more than one woman is called polyandry

False

It is a foundation of family life.

Marriage

The marriage between members of the same category, class or group

Endogamy

When the newlywed couple chooses to live on their own, the pattern is called _____________.

Neolocality

By learning about their cultural heritages, children gain a sense of belonging to something larger
than themselves.

True

Single-parenthood is considered an alternative family.

True

Child rearing is a basic function of the Filipino family.

True

A family that consists of a mother, father, and children living under one roof.

Nuclear family

Long Quiz 03
Marriage between one man and more than one woman

Polygamy
Which of the following has little social mobility?

Caste System
Which of the following is NOT a general characteristic of religion?

No correct answer

Matrilocality happens when a married couple opts to stay with the wife's family household.

True

Neolocality happens when a married couple stays with the husband's family household.

False

stratification system has a high social mobility.

Open

RA 9710 is also known as

The Magna Carta of Women

This is a social system that is based on ascribed statuses of the individuals.

Caste System

This is an economic system in which success or failure of an enterprise is determined by means of

Capitalism

This refers to the belief in a single God.

Monotheism

Judaism is derived from Christianity.

False

Marriage between one woman and more than one man

Polyandry

The Hunting and Gathering Societies eventually led to a more stratified society.

False

In a monarchy, the supreme power is held by a single person, and is passed on from one generation
to another.

True

Women in Development in Development and Nation Building Act is also known as:

RA 7192

The Authoritarianism is a political system that gives people the power to choose their officials to run
the government.

False
Marriage between members of different categories, classes, or groups

Exogamy

Finals

Agent of socialization that encourages to think and behave appropriately to the situations or
occassions of the society

Schools

A social institution that answers questions that could hardly be explained.

Religion

Religion with their code of conduct helps to discipline society.

True

Hinduism is the oldest major world religion.

True

Manifest functions are functions that are ________________.

Intended

Followers of this religion believe that the true word of God was revealed to the prophet Muhammad
around 570 A.D.

Islam

Capitalism is an economic system that encourages individual profit.

True

All of the monarchies in the world are constitutional in which the reigning member of the royal family
is the symbolic head of the state.

False

Cult is a religious group that is outside cultural norms which is typically around a charismatic leader.

True

Are punishments for violating norms.

negative sanctions

Job specification started in these societies.

Hunting and Gathering Societies

In sociology, the term ____________________ means layers in society

Strata
In this category, people choose their leaders to run their government.

Democracy

The World System Theory of Immanuel Wallerstein states that globalization of capitalism shall occur
as societies become industrialized.

True

The law says that the State recognizes marriage as an inviolable institution and the foundation of
family is the foundation of the whole nation.

Republic Health Act of 22012

The most widespread religion in the world

According to Buddhism, karma can be strengthened or weakened by good acts and bad acts.

False

Wrote the book "Society in America" which examines religion, politics, child rearing, and immigration
in the young nation.

Harriet Martineau

This was also referred to as a system of stratification because it identified the slaves as one who
were subjects of slave owners.

Slavery

Sociology tries to find out general laws or principles about human interaction and association, about
the nature, form, content and structure of human groups and societies.

True

Responsible in making and enforcing laws.

Government

This is a type of stratification system in which inheritance than merit determines social rank.

Socialism is an economic system that allows limited rights to private property.

True

Schooling is informal even with the presence of a trained teacher.

False

He proposed four types of suicide, based on the degrees of imbalance of two social forces: social
integration and moral regulation.

Emile Durkheim

These are large corporations that do business in a number of different countries.

Multinational Countries
Volunteerism benefits you in what way/ways?

All of these

Family is the Answer  agent of socialization.

First

Politics is manifested as a social institution in _________________.

Government