Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences.

Name:_________________ Date:________________

Test I. Fill in the blanks with the correct letters.

1. __ __ I __ __ C __. A branch of study concerned with the observation and classification of facts
through experiments.
2. __ O __ __ E __. People living together in organized communities while sharing the same
traditions and norms.
3. __ __ M __ __ I __ __ E __. The study of human culture that includes music and art.
4. __ __ P __ T __ E __ I __. An astute guess or inference that is formulated and provisionally
adopted to explain observed facts or condition and to guide in further investigation.
5. __ __ S __ __ P __ __ N __. Term for a particular branch of learning or body of knowledge.
6. __ __ P __ R __ __ __ S __. The view that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are
justifiable or knowledge only through experience.
7. __ O __ __ O __ __ G __. A social science that concerns itself to societal relations, like family or
community.
8. __ __ Y __ H __ __ O __ __. A social science dealing with the inner workings of the human mind
and how these translate to certain behaviour.
9. __ N __ __ N __ E __ __ N __. An example of an applied profession dealing with the application
of scientific principles to develop machines and devices.
10. __ __ C __ __ M __. Ancient body of knowledge aimed at discovering an elixir of life.

Test II. Identification

1. A preparation supposedly able to prolong life indefinitely. ____________________(elixir of life)

2. It aims to explain and predict various phenomena in nature, example are biology, chemistry,
earth science and physics. _____________________________ (natural science)
3. It attempts to explain and describe human behaviour in a society; examples are anthropology,
economics, psychology and sociology. ____________________________ (social science0
4. Study of humankind. _______________________________ (anthropology)
5. Former Director General of the National Economic Development Authority during the Ramos
Administration. ___________________________________ (cielito habito)
6. Former Director General of the National Economic Development Authority during the Aquino
Administration. ___________________________________ (solita monsod)
7. Former Director General of the National Economic Development Authority during the Estrada
Administration. ___________________________________ (felipe medalla)
8. This field analyses how the economy functions as a whole or its basic subdivisions, such as the
government or business sectors. ___________________________ (macroeconomics)
 9. Involves in discovering and learning new things by following a systematic plan of action and
applying principles of research. _________________________________ (social science
research)
10. It gives prime importance to the systematic and empirical investigation of an occurrence by way
of statistical analysis, computational methods and other observable variables.
_____________________________ (quantitative approach)

Test III. Matching type. Write the letter of the correct answer.

________ 1. A description of a society’s customary behaviors, beliefs and attitudes

________ 2. The movement of people from one country or place to another in to live or work.

________ 3. Objects or materials made or modified for use by hominids.

________ 4. Any of a family of erect bipedal primate mammals that includes recent humans.

________ 5. The period of time in the past before people could write.

________ 6. The behavioural, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex.

________ 7. The customary ways of thinking and behaving of a particular population or society.

________ 8. The hardened remains or impressions of plants and animals that lived in the past.

________ 9. The difference in value between a country’s imports and exports over a certain period of
time.

________10. The official process of counting the number of people in country, city or town.

a. Census
b. Artifact
c. Ethnography
d. Fossil
e. Hominid
f. Prehistory
g. Migration
h. Balance of trade
i. Culture
j. Gender
Test IV. Enumeration

1 - 2. Classification of social functions. (manifest and latent)

3 – 7. Give atleast five thinkers under positivism.

8 – 10. Classification of social science research. (exploratory, descriptive and explanatory)

11 – 13. Methods of quantitative approach. (survey, structural interview, experiments in psychology )

14 – 16. Give atleast 3 methods in qualitative approach.

17 – 18. Two major levels of economics. (microeconomics, macroeconomics)

19 – 21. Three main branches of anthropology. (physical, cultural, archeology0

22 – 27. Subdisciplines of physical anthropology. (palaeoanthropology, genetics, primatology,

osteology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology)

28 – 30. Give atleast three disciplines of social sciences.