San Lorenzo School

608 Mayumi st. USPS. San Pedro City Laguna

S.Y. 2019-2020
Midterm Examination in
Discipline and Ideas in Social Sciences

Name:____________________________________________________Date:_______________________
Year and Section:_______________________________________Teacher:__________________

I- Write the correct answer on the spaces provided before the number.
__________1. They see education as contributing to the smooth functioning of society.
__________2. It states that a system must cope with external situation exigencies.
__________3. It states that a system system must define and achieve its primary goals.
__________4. It states that a system must regulate the interrelationship of its components
parts.
__________5. It states that a system must furnish, maintain and renew both the motivation
of individuals and the cultural patterns that create and sustain the motivation.
___________6. It handles adaptation function by adjusting and transforming the external
world.
___________7. It copes with the integration by controlling it’s component parts.
___________8. It performs the goal attainment function by defining system goals and
mobilizing resources to attain them.
___________9. Performs the latency function by providing actors with the norms and
values that motivate them from action.
___________10. It is an organization of society, including institutions, social positions and
distribution of resources.
II- Write T if the statement is true and F if False.
______1. Equilibrium is the characteristic of a society when it has achieved the form that
is best adapted to its situation.
______2. Societies have a tendency towards consensus; that is, to have certain basic
values that nearly everyone in the society agrees upon.
______3. Each part of the social system exist because it does not serve any function.
______4. Enculturation is a set of beliefs, language, rules, values and knowledge held in
common by members by society.
______5. Marxism began in the 19th century as a pragmatic view of history that offered
the working classes of society.
______6. Marxism focuses on class relations and societal conflict.
______7. Marxism is not a study that relationship between a text and society that reads it.
______8. Marx declares that unconsciousness does not determine life: life determines
consciousness
______9. Marx believed that society had progressed from one economic system to
another.
______10. Superstructure is about all the social and legal institutions, political and
educational systems, religions and art.

III- Analogy
1. Detailed analysis of symbols is to ____________, while Neo-Marxist group is to
Frankfurt.
2. Complex relationship between structure and superstructure is to Gramsci, while
___________________ is to Althusser.
3. Marxism is to working class of society, while ____________ is to social system exist
because it serves some function.
4. Consensus is to agreement of everyone, while ___________ is to ability to cooperate.
5. Culture are sets of belief while equality is for ____________.
 IV- Enumerate the following:
a. Assumptions of Marxism
1.
2.
3.
4.
B.Two economic means of production within society.
5.
6.
c.Four proponents of Marxist principle
7.
8.
9.
10.

1- Fill out the diagram about the four historical periods of Marxism

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Answer Key:
I:
1. Strcutural Functionalist
2. Adaptation
3. Goal Attainment
4. Integration
5.Latency
6.Action System
7.Social System
8.Personality System
9.Cultural System
10.Social Structure
II:
1.T
2.T
3.M
4.M
5.T
6.M
7.M
8.M
9.T
10.T