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UNDERSTAND CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
A. WORD BANK: Write the letter of the correct answer before each number.

a. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski d. René Descartes g. George Simmel j. Harriet Martineau

b. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown e. Franz Boas h. Karl Marx k. Zeus Salazar
c. Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier Comte f. Max Weber i. Emile Durkheim l. Virgilio Enriquez

d 1. He was a French philosopher mathematician, and a writer who is considered the father of modern philosophy.
He advocated the use of rigorous philosophical analysis to arrive at truths rather than basing them on dogmas.
b 2. Was an English social anthropologist who developed the theory of structural functionalism.
e 3. He is often considered as the father of modern American anthropology. He was the first anthropologist to
have rejected the biological basis of racism or racial discrimination. He also rejected the popular western idea of social
evolution or the development of societies from lower to higher forms. He rejected this kind of theory influenced by Darwin
in favor of historical particularism.
f 4. He stressed the role of rationalization in the development of society. For Him, rationalization refers essentially
to the disenchantment of the word.
i 5. He was responsible for defending sociology as an independent discipline from psychology. As a social realist,
He argued that society possesses a reality sui generis(that is, its own kind, or a class by itself, unique) independent of
individuals and institutions that compose it.
g 6. He was a German sociologist in the early 20th century, to decry the growing depersonalization of life due to
the introduction of money.
j 7. She was a writer, ethnographer, political economist and sociologist. She is considered as the “mother” of
sociology.
h 9. Is considered as the “father” of scientific socialism.
a 10. He was a Polish immigrant who did a comprehensive study of Trobriand Island. Based on his field study, he
developed what social scientists now call as a participant observation.

B. FILL IN THE BLANKS: Read each statement or question below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the correct answer.
Answers may be more than one word

11. sociology_______________________ is a branch of the social sciences that deals with the scientific study of human
interaction, social groups and institutions, whole societies and the human word as such
12._________________________is a science that studies the relationship between the individual and the society as they
develop and change in history.
13. _________________________ also addresses the problem of the constitution of the self and the individual, but it only
does so in relation to larger social structures and processes.
14.anthropology _________________________ as a scientific discipline originated from social philosophy and travelogues
of Western travelers.
15. _________________________ is the scientific study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and
present.
16.&17 The intensification of commerce and trade gradually replaced barter with the introduction of ____________ and
_______________ system.
18.________________ system provided merchants and capitalists the leverage to extend credit and transactions.
19.political_________________ Science is part of the sciences that deals with the study of politics, power, and government.
20. ________________is above all the study of power: how it is created, exercised, justified, and challenged.