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PRELIM EXAM IN DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

11 – MERCURY AND VENUS
Prepared by: Ms. Aubrey Kaye P. Conde

Name:____________________________________Date:___________
Grade and Section:__________________________Score:__________

I. Fill in the blanks. Write the best answer. No Erasures.

______________1. What stage of societal development that chiefly utilizing crude technology like fire,
bow and pottery?

______________2. Who is the one that examined the social, psychological and economic factors that
led to the rise of ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean?

______________3. What is the holistic study of one culture?

______________4. Who was the father of American Anthropology?

______________5. What theory states that human groups go through stages of development?

______________6. What promotes the study of people and their lifeways based on the context of their
culture and not of the researchers?

______________7. What subfields in linguistics anthropology that focuses on understanding the syntax
and the grammar of a particular language?

______________8. Who was the lawyer by training and profession, who became fascinated with the
land disputes between the United States government and American Indians people?

______________9. What field that studies the human’s closest relative like the bonobo chimpanzees in
one of its subfields?

______________10. What field that engaged in understanding humans and their nature as an animal
species?

______________11. What study that allows for a cross-cultural comparison?

______________12. What study in science that deals with past human life and activities by studying the
bones, tools, etc., of ancient people?

______________13. What is concerned with the identification of unrecognizable remains of humans

that may have been burned, mutilated, or decomposed?

______________14. Who is the French philosopher said in his work that these “primitive” societies can
later be on expected to progress towards the stage of civilized societies just like those in Europe?

______________15. What method that entails the process of actual daily encounters with the locals of
an anthropologist’s area of study?

II. Enumeration. Write the correct answer. No Erasures

a. Name the important personalities b. List the stages of societal

of anthropology. development based on the
1. progression of their technological capacity.
2. 4.
3. 5.
6.
c. Enumerate the four fields of d. State the three subfields in
American Anthropology. Linguistics Anthropology?

7. 11.

8. 12.

9. 13.

10.

e. Name the two most used methods in ethnography?

14.

15.

b. Essay. Answer the questions BRIEFLY. 10 pts 5 pts – content

3 pts – grammar
2 pts- following instruction
10 pts – total

1. Compare the works of Charles Darwin and Franz Boas in the discipline of anthropology.

2. Explain in your own words the three key concepts in anthropology.