BUKIDNON STATE UNIVERSITY

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES-SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
MIDTERM EXAM-INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCSCI 114
ATTY. RIA FAITH N. BISAHAN
Follow the instructions provided in the test paper. Write your answers in a separate
piece of paper. You are only given 1 hour to finish the midterm examination so make
sure you finish on time. No talking with your classmates during the exam, just ask the
instructor if there are things you like to clarify. No cheating or else the instructor will be
forced to implement a disciplinary action.
MATCHING TYPE (20 POINTS) Match Column A with Column B. Write the letters
of your choice on the left blank column.

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Column A
(PERSONS)
1. Social Mobility

Column B (DESCRIPTION)

6. Parliamentary
government
7. Presidential
government
8. Due process

Separation of powers between the legislative,

executive & judicial government is a characteristic of
this form of government.
B. The exercise of legislative and executive departments
in this form of government is lodged in only one body
or group of persons.
C. Whenever there is an instance of the poor allowing
themselves to be abused and is said to hold on to the
knifes blade
D. Government unit or office that does advisory,
research, planning & evaluation functions of the
government.
E.
Program of control of population growth and human
fertility
F.
Ways of improving a persons social class through
education and employment
G. People who are settled in areas that legally belong to
private owners or the government
H. Death penalty

9. Kapit sa patalim

I.

2. Preventive

justice
3. Squatters
4. Public
administration
5. Staff agencies

10. Family
planning

A.

This is essential to democracy because it protects the

individual from abusive action of the implementation
of enforcers of the law.
J.
The delivery of services to the people by the
government.

FILL IN THE BLANKS: Write the answer in the blanks given (20 points).
1.
2.
3.

4.
5.

______________________This occurs in a particular society

when a condition or situa
______________________The practice of marrying outside the immediate group of the
spouses.
______________________The prohibition of sexual contact or
marriage between parents and offspring, between siblings,
between cousins, and between uncles and nieces or aunts
and nephews.
______________________ The practice of marriage-divorcemarriage as a chain in the life of a male or a female.
______________________The scheme used by primitive
societies in the absence of a medium of exchange by which
one product was traded for another.

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10.

______________________ This term refers to the cultural change

in people who have been exposed to dominant culture.
______________________ This refers to the common way of
living, thinking and acting among a group, community, or a
nation.
______________________ This group of people did not get their
results in their demands to the Spaniards but they inspired
the revolutionaries to rise up in arms and sparked the
nationalism of the Filipino people during the Spanish
colonization.
_____________________ This concept is exemplified in the
Philippines during EDSA People Power I and II when the
sovereign Filipino people defied the rule of the persons in
authority.
______________________ This Latin term means wise man, witness or judge.

ANALOGY (10 POINTS)

Encircle the letter that corresponds to the paired relationship of the first
group.
1. Anthropology: study of man : :_____________: study of mans society
a. Psychology
b. Geography
c. Political Science
d.
Sociology
2. Ferdinand Marcos:Martial Law Proclamation: : _________________:Surrender of Luis
Taruc
a. Elpidio Quirrinob. Jose P. Laurel
c. Ramon Magsaysay d. Sergio Osmea
3. Reformists:Peaceful changes in the government: : _______________:Armed struggle.
a. Revolts
b. Revolutionaries
c. Propagandists d. Rightists
4. Statecraft and Diplomacy:Political Science : : Truth and Reason:_______________.
a. Philosophy
b. Psychology
c. Education
d.
Anthropology
5. History:Study of the past: : _______________: Study of the location and description of
places.
a. Psychology
b. Geography
c. Political Science
d.
Sociology
MODIFIED TRUE OF FALSE (20 POINTS): Write T if the statement is True and
modify or change the underlined term if the statement is False.
1. Two factions emerged in the Katipunan, the pro-Bonifacio were the
Magdiwang and the pro-Aguinaldo was Magdalo.
2. Taboos are acts that are socially disapproved or discourage in a
culture.
3. One strength of barter trade used by primitive societies is that
goods had to be brought to the market place in the hope of finding
coincidence of needs among the traders.
4. Incest taboo has been universally observed to preclude the
inbreeding of the human population.
5. The act of Andres Bonifacio that was considered as treason by Emilio
Aguinaldo is the formation of the Magdalo group of another
government during the Tejeros and Naic meetings of the Katipunan.
6. Economics is taken from a Latin term which literally means
household.
7. Sociology refers to the study of system of rules usually enforced
through a set of institutions.
8. Social Science is a word first used by French essayist Emmanuel
Joseph Sieyes in 1780 & later on adopted by Auguste Comte in 1838.
9. One basic concept discussed in Psychology is the human mind,
personality and emotions.
10. Histor is a Greek word which means past.

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