FIRST MONTHLY EXAMINATION

DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 11

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Year and Section: ________________________ Date: _____________________
I. Identification. Write the correct answer in the blank provided.
___________1. It is the study of marriage customs, kinship patterns, economic systems, and religious rites of cultural group.
___________2. It is the ways of life learned and shared by people in social groups.
___________3. It is the other fields of anthropology which studies the biological evolution of man.
___________4. It is the scientific study of ownership, use and exchange of scarce resources.
___________5. It evaluates the flow of goods and services between or among nations.
___________6. It deals with individuals physical and cultural elements and encompasses both physical and cultural geography.
___________7. Focuses on understanding how people use language in certain culture.
___________8. It called the write book-length accounts.
___________9. It is the study of ways in which the human experience is processed and documented.
___________10. It is different from natural and humanities because its primary interest lies in predicting and explaining human
behavior.
II. Word Bank. Choose the best answer in the box provided below. Write the correct answer before each number.

Anthropology Cultural Anthropology Cultural History Diplomatic History

Microeconomics Geography Military History History

Regional Geography Micro geography Social History Geographical Location

Natural Science Scientific Method Periods Economic History

Intellectual History Archaeology Herodotus History of Religion Social History Economic History

Historical Method Synthesis Linguistics Descriptive Linguistics Comparative Linguistics

Political Science Comparative Politics International Relations Psychology Environmental History

_____________1. It refers to the methods to a standardized set of techniques for building scientific knowledge, such as how it make
valid observations, how to interpret results and to generalize results.
_____________2. It is a study of humans and their societies in the past and present.
_____________3. It is a social science discipline that endeavors to understand the earth in terms of physical and spatial geography.
_____________4. It deals with description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena based on observation and empirical
evidence.
_____________5. It’s the study the development of small areas such a city.
_____________6. It examines the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions concerning the allocation of limited
resources.
_____________7. It studies the different areas of the earth, specifically the unique combinations of physical and cultural
characteristics that represent each region and distinguish one region from another region.
_____________8. It is the other field of Anthropology which investigates and seeks to understand the cultural features of societies.
_____________9. It focus on events and developments that occur in particular blocks of time.
_____________10. It covers religions from all regions of the world where humans have lived.
_____________11. It is normally combines the approaches of anthropology and history to explore language, popular cultural
traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experiences.
_____________12. It deals with military tactics and strategies, warfare, battles, weapons, and even psychology of combats.
_____________13. It is the history of ordinary people and their strategies and institutions for coping with life.
_____________14. It is about Historians who usually turn to geography to understand ‘why historic events’ took place.
_____________15. It studies the conduct of international relations between states or across state boundaries overtime.
_____________16. It is one of the field of history that tackle about economic phenomena of the past.
_____________17. It is one of the field of history that the ideas of philosophies and their thinkers are been taught.
_____________19. It is the most common forms of reasoning used includes ‘arguments to the best explanation’ ‘statistical inference’
and ‘arguments from analogy’.
_____________20.One of the methods of history that the historians deals with techniques and guidelines.
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_____________21. It is an academic discipline which studies these knowledge systems in all their aspects.
_____________22. It is the study and analysis of spoken language.
_____________23. It is the study and analysis of origins and kinship or relatedness of different languages by means of written
records.
_____________24. It is a social science discipline that studies systems of government, and the analysis of political activity and
behavior.
_____________25. It is the study in which the centers on politics within countries usually grouped into world religions and evaluate
similarities and differences between or among countries.
_____________26. It is the study of international systems, which comprises interactions between nations, international or
multinational organization.
_____________27. It emphasizes the problem solving abilities of international institutions such as World Trade Organizations
_____________28. It underlines the danger of international system, where war is always a possibility as it holds that the only source
of order is the balance of power.
_____________29. Father of History
_____________30. It studies the past, rather than the living human societies and culture.
III. Photo analysis. Explain the picture using different fields in social sciences.
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IV. Essay. Answer briefly.

1. How are you going to apply the concepts of linguistics in identifying the causes of miscommunication?
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2. Explain the statement: You cannot change the past but you can change history?
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