CONCEPCION HOLY CROSS COLLEGES INC.

MIDTERM EXAMS
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Name: ___________________________ Date: _________________________ Score: ______________

Course/Year & Section: ___________Student No#. _____________ Student Permit No# _____________

TEST 1Select your answers from the sets of terms/words from the grid below.

1. are groups in which relationships are spontaneous, personal and intimate, which also involves
interaction among members who have an emotional investment in one another and in a
situation , who know one another intimately, and interact as total individuals rather than
through specialized roles. _________________________
2. are groups in which relationships are impersonal and widely separate, and they are
characterized by much less intimacy among the members, usually, they have specific goals and
are formally organized and impersonal. _________________________
3. Relationships among members of the group are close, durable, and highly valued, they live
together and develop common experiences, interests, memories and histories.
_________________________
4. Social relationships tend to be impersonal and segmented, and social ties become
associational, springing from an elaborate division of labour _______________________
5. In this type of society interaction takes place through social networks and communication
channels that are not necessarily limited to primary and secondary groups in terms of relations.
______________________________
6. A situation in which an individual is stimulated by the presence of others, aroused or
motivated to perform some kinds of physical and social skills at higher levels of excellence.
____________________________
7. A situation in which the presence of others blocks or retards ones performance.
____________________________
8. Refers to a formal, rationally organized and highly organized social structure with clearly
defined patterns of activity in which, ideally, every series of actions is fundamentally related to
the organizations purpose. ___________________________
9. May refer to people who might be simply incidentally assembled in a certain place without
any particular interaction with one another nor share a purpose.
___________________________
10. A specific number of individuals where each recognizes members from non-members and
each has a sense of what others do and think as well as what the purpose of the association
is.____________________________________
11. Sometimes called blood groups in which members are related by birth, marriage, or
adoption. ________________________________
12. A very good basis for a groups classification where members of the group are identified with
the name of the place where they are. __________________________
13. Are groups in which relationships are impersonal and widely separate, characterized by much
less intimacy among the members and are formally organized. _________________________
14. The approach which social scientists contend that the only way they could study the mix of
feelings that persons have about one another in any social relationship.
_________________________
15. The graph in which social choices, social ties and relationships are diagrammed.
________________________
16. A small group which consist of two persons. _______________________
17. A dimension of a group which refers to the patterning of actual behaviour which could be
either a formal or informal in terms of its organization. __________________________
18. A group dimension where the degree to which members of a group cooperate with each
other. ______________________________

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 19. The Theory which claims that in Bureaucracies, employees are promoted until they rise to
their level of incompetence, reaching the eventual final point of the job for which they will be no
longer qualified. ____________________________
20. This refers to the process by which people act and react in relation to others.
________________________
21. A type of social interaction which refers to the collaborative efforts between people to
achieve a common goal, often takes place when two or more individuals produce a desired end
more efficiently and effectively. ____________________________
22. Another type of social interaction which involves direct struggle between individuals or
groups over commonly valued resources or goals through their contrasting points of views.
_____________________________
23. The term ordinarily means prestige, however, in sociology, this refers particularly to a
position in social structure-bearing any position that determines where a person fits within the
society. ___________________________
24. Refers to an acquired social position that is assumed voluntarily which reflects a significant
measure of personal ability and efforts. _________________________
25. A specialized approach within the symbolic interaction paradigm which designates a system of
method or principles towards the understanding of cultural surroundings, and was derived from
two Greek words. __________________________
26. An element of social interaction which refers to the web of relationships that connects an
individual to many other people, both directly and indirectly. ________________________
27. Are specific rules of behaviour that are agreed upon and shared and prescribed limits of
acceptable behaviour. _____________________________
28. A group which is composed of three persons. _______________________
29. These are established organizations with particular patterns of beliefs and behaviour focused
on basic social needs. ___________________________
30. Refers to the incompatibility among the roles corresponding to a single status.
_______________________

TEST 11ESSAY. Choose only 2 topics and discuss briefly. (20 points each)

1. Differentiate the following:

a. Primary and Secondary Groups
b. Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft communities

2. Give and explain the main characteristics of bureaucracy.

3. Illustrate the following by giving specific examples

a. Cooperation & conflict

b. Social Inhibition & Social Facilitation

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