SOCIAL SCIENCE

____1. Which of the following disciplines is not coherent in the study of Applied Social
Science?

a. Political Science
b. Sociology
c. Psychology
d. Communication

____2. Which of the following is true about social sciences?

a. It investigates human societies and the different forces that work with them.
b. It tells what you should do to achieve the dream career.
c. It helps in the business management and operation.
d. It determines the available career in the future.

_____3. Which of the following is not a subfield of applied social sciences?

a. Journalism c. Counseling
b. Social Work d. Managerial Expertise

_____4. Which career opportunity will mostly need an applied social science practitioner?

a. Journalism c. Computer Science

b. Engineering d. Architecture

______5. Kazu was born and raised in Japan. His biological parents are both Filipinos but he was
raised by his Japanese parents, briefly, he is adopted. His parents kept the truth from him until
noticed. What do you think is the crisis facing by Kazu?

a. Self-awareness c. Anxiety
b. Self-acceptance d. Identity.

______6. Nikki and Christian were so in love with each other. Sometime in November, Nikki’s
ex returned from US and messaged her that he’s back. Christian found out that Nikki and her ex
were having intimate conversation and a plan to meet. Christian decided to follow Nikki. As
soon as he saw them together, raging in anger, he pushed the guy with all his might. The guy
accidentally and shoddily hit his head in the brim of a stone that led for the blood to clot and
measured dead on arrival. If you were the counsellor of Christian, what do you think will be the
effective approach in his condition?

a. Restitution c. Self-acceptance
b. Empowerment d. Psychological Change
____7. Mary Rose and Melvin were just married and happily in love with each other. However,
Mary Rose has been hiding a secret from him, about having AIDS. Mary Rose is pregnant at the
moment. One night, Melvin opened the cabinet of his wife and found out that she’s taking a pill.
Before confronting Mary Rose, he searched the information about the drug and revealed the
truth. He got himself checked and detected positive. Despite of the fact, Melvin love Mary Rose
so much but what he is afraid of, is the future of his baby. If you were the counsellor of Mary
Rose and Melvin, what do you think will be the effective approach in their condition?

a. Cognitive Change c. Restitution

b. Self-Acceptance d. Psychological Change

____8. Which of the following is not included in empowerment?

a. Awareness c. Enhancement of knowledge

b. Working on Skill d. Operating Social Systems

_____9. What weakens if a person is abusing an alcohol?

a. Self-control c. Memory loss

b. Mindfulness d. Decline financial security

_____10. Which of the following is not included in aging issues?

a. Decline memory c. Disease

b. Mobility d. Increased loneliness

___________11. Which of the following was borrowed from the classic Philippine history book
entitled History of the Filipino?

a. Los Indios Bravos

b. Indio
c. Indio to Filipino
d. Propaganda
___________12. Which of the following is the derogatory term used by the Spaniards to denote
the natives living in the archipelago?

a. Clase media
b. Indio
c. Illustrado
d. Polo y Servicio
___________13. Who considered Isabelo de Los Reyes as brains of the nation?

a. Pedro Paterno
b. ResilMojares
 c. Pedro Chirino
d. Francisco Colin
___________14. Which of the following considered as the educated class?

a. Ilustradios
b. Indio
c. Insulares
d. Peninsulares
___________15. Which of the following is the basic political unit of the islands?

a. Barangay
b. Officio
c. Katipunero
d. Alcalde
___________16. Which of the following noble works of Rizal defended the natives against the
negative backlash of the Spaniards against indios?

a. Sobre la Indolencia de los Filipinos

b. Noli Me tangere
c. El Filibusterismo
d. A la Juventud Filipina
___________17. Which of the following association aimed to reform the society and assist
Filipinos to improve their lands?

a. A la Juventud Filipina
b. Katipunan
c. Cuerpo de Compromisarios
d. La Liga Filipina
___________18. Which of the following is not an objective of katipunan?

a. Moral
b. Civic
c. Freedom
d. Political
___________19. Which of the following considered as the official publication of KKK?

a. Katipunan
b. Kalayaan
c. Samasa
d. La Liga Filipina
___________20. Who is the secretary of the Katipunan and editor of the newspaper of KKK?
 a. Isabelo de Los Reyes
b. Diego Silang
c. ApoinarioMabini
d. Emilio Jacinto
______21. Which of the following describes as the art of understanding and theory of
interpretation?
a. Phenomenology
b. Hermeneutics
c. Linguistics
d. Phonology
______22. How people create and associate their own subjective meanings as they interact?
Through what?
a. Critical Social Science
b. Interpretative Social Science
c. Associative Social Science
d. Hermeneutics
______23. Which of the following is the study of experience and how we experience things?
a. Phenomenology
b. Phonology
c. Context
d. Hermeneutics
______24. Which of the following best describes historicality?
a. Culture since birth and passed on generation to generation
b. Interpretation of philosophy
c. Criticism of the past
d. Setting of our tradition
______25. Which of the following is the strength of hermeneutics phenomenology?
a. Clarification of lived experience through understanding of subjective
meaning and interpretation
b. Observation of locality
c. Perception of history
d. Realization of world and meta-world
______26. Why hermeneutics phenomenology is being criticized?
a. Because of micro-level analysis that even researchers cannot generalize the
ideas of people.
b. Because of being imaginative.
c. Because of serious matter and personal objectives
d. Because of being subjective.
______27. How can we creatively communicate with each other?
a. Symbolic interaction
b. Letters
c. Verbal Communication
d. Contemplation
______28. Which of the following best describes symbolic interactionism?
a. It is a social science approach which depends on the symbolic meaning
developed by people in the process of nteraction
 b. It is giving the meaning out of a given context
c. It is the study of lived experience
d. It is how we perceive things

______29. Which of the following is a concept of symbolic interactionism?

a. Pity
b. Mercy
c. Self
d. Life
______30. Which of the following are considered as to cooperation in symbolic interactionism?
a. Superman and Intrahuman
b. Superhuman and infrahuman
c. Human and infrahuman
d. Human and intrahuman

_______31. Which of the following is evident in institutionalism?

A. Formal and Informal Institutions
B. Mental Institutions
C. Educational Programs
D. General Hospitals
_______32. How psychology become part of natural science?
A. When a person becomes a psychiatrist.
B. When there is an alleviation of mental health problem.
C. When there is an interest on the human mind and in trying the mechanisms of the
human brain.
D. When the social illness is addressed effectively.
_______33. Which of the following refers to results for the operation of the society in general?
A. Latent Function
B. Structural-Function
C. Social Function
D. Ordered Function
_______34. Which of the following is a demographic process?
A. Birth
B. Occupation
C. Motivation
D. Policy

_______35. Which of the following is the contribution of George Homans in Rational choice
theory?
A. The microeconomic investigation
B. Exchange Theory.
C. The behavioural patterns of humans.
 D. The psychological response of a person towards success

_______36. Why do we need to have a rational choice?

A. For us to have a betterment of living

B. For us make the logical decisions within ourselves
C. To have a psychological response
D. To get through with personal problems
_______37. Which of the following defines manifest function?
A. It is something we anticipate to happen
B. It is the negative effect of social functions
C. It propagates social interaction
D. It focuses on analytical thinking

_______38. Which of the following is a theory that views institutions as humanly devise
constraints that structure political, economic and social interactions?
A. Marxism
B. Institutionalism
C. Social Dysfunction
D. Rational Choice

_______39. Which of the following best describes latent function?

A. Attending class to see your crush

B. Praying
C. Bullying
D. Being anti-social
_______40. Which of the following best describes structural functionalism?
A. It aims to explain human behaviour by discovering and documenting universal laws
and patterns that govern human behaviour.
B. The viewpoint that institutions in a society are parts of whole, each with important
functions to maintain social stability.
C. It explains the different structures of society much as well its mechanisms.
D. It discovers the heart in studying Social Sciences.

_______41. Which of the following situation illustrates qualitative method?

A. Pinpointing how many school dropouts do occur annually.
B. Researcher discovering several reasons why there are incidence of school dropouts.
C. Statistical analysis of the students victimized by bullying.
D. Population changes and trends
_______42. Which of the following best describes informal institution?
A. Rules governing outside the official channels which may have constitutive and
regular effects in human behaviour.
B. Refers to the officially established by the governments.
C. Enable actions and choices.
D. Creation on the possible consequences of certain options.

_______43. How is social dysfunction connected to the discipline of sociology?

A. It focuses on socio cultural phenomena
B. It comprehends the mechanisms behind human population.
C. It is the negative effect of manifest or latent function
D. It checks the production output in individual industry.

_______44. Which of the following is the best description of rational choice?

A. Sees society as a system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and
stability.
B. Assumes that society is made up of individuals who always make logical decisions
that provide them with the greatest benefit at the lowest cost.
C. Imposed in the mind by experience.
D. Society composed of talented individuals who make logical decisions.
_______45. Which of the following is not an included part of linguistics?
a. Analogy
b. Phonology
c. Syntax
d. Morphology

_______46. How social science researches influence our lives?

a. Research government findings could lead to government policies.
b. Research about tuberculosis.
c. Research about proliferation of drugs.
d. Research about why Filipinos love adobo.
_______47. Which of the following is the best explanation of rational choice theory?
A. We are all born and raised in a society.
B. We use reason in order for us to satisfy our curiosity.
C. We have the greatest benefit at lowest cost.
D. We have different practices.
_______48. Which of the following best describes latent function?
A. Attend a party and an opportunity to see your crush.
B. Rain dance to produce rain.
C. Go to school to learn lessons.
D. Pray to seek GOD.
_______49. Which of the following is the strength of Rational Choice Theory?

A. Generality.
B. Inadequacy of Information.
C. Social Change.
D. Propagation

______50. Why do we need to conduct social research?

A. To make sound decisions or to create additional knowledge about the society we live
in.
B. To know the behavioural patterns of human kind.
C. To distinguish the role of every individual in the society.
D. To be familiar with the psychological problems that occurs in every individual.