UCSP ORAL RECITATION
1. GENDER - refers to social, cultural, and psychological characteristics or traits related to males and
females based on certain social contexts.
2. GENDER ROLE is the set of behaviors that the society expects from a person based on his or her sex.
3. BABAYLAN - performed spiritual and social rituals during the pre-colonial period.
4. RELIGIOUS LEADER - The babaylan lost her position in society upon the arrival of the Spaniards.
Which among the following functions of the babaylan was taken over by Catholic priests?
5. GENDER ROLE - the concept expects women to be sensitive and emotional
6. PENINSULARES Spaniards who were born in Spain and went to the Philippines?
7. SEX – refers to the biological characteristics of human such as male or female.
8. Nationality - the identity that is tied to being part of a nation or country.
9. Ethnicity - Ethnic Groups within the nation these are the smaller cultural groups that share specific
environments, traditions and histories that are not necessarily subscribed by the mainstream culture.
10. HETEROSEXUAL a person with this gender is inclined to be sexually attracted to a person of the
opposite sex
11. HOMOSEXUAL person that is sexually attracted to the same sex.
12. GAY- romantically and sexually attracted to male.
13. LESBIAN - romantically and sexually attracted to female.
14. BISEXUAL individuals who are attracted to the opposite sex.
15. ASEXUAL totally incapable of being attracted to any sex
16. POLYSEXUAL attracted to multiple types of gender identity.
17. PANSEXUAL accommodates all types of gender.
18. GLOBAL SOUTH also known as developing countries that perceive poverty.
19. GLOBAL NORTH also known as developed countries and industrialized nations.
20. POLITICAL IDENTITY refers to the set of attitudes and practices that an individual adheres to in
relation to the political systems and actors within his or her society.
21. RELIGION the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power especially a personal God or
Gods.
22. MONOTHEISTIC believing in the existence of one God.
23. POLYTHEISTIC believing in the existence of multiple Gods.
24. CULTURAL VARIATION-The variation in human conditions promotes diversity and plurality in cultural
traditions. This could lead to discrimination and ostracism.
25. ETHNOCENTRISM is perspective that promotes an individual culture as the most efficient and
superior hence the individual who exhibit ethnocentrism feels that his or her culture is the most
appropriate as compared to other cultures.
26. CULTURAL RELATIVISM promotes the perspective that cultures must be understood in the context of
their locality.
27. THINKING CAPACITY - the primary component of humans that allowed for culture is the developed
brain.
28. SPEAKING CAPACITY - the vocal tract acts as the mechanism by which sounds are produced and
reproduced to transmit ideas and values.
29. GRIPPING CAPACITY – Notice how your thumb relates with your fingers. This capacity to directly
oppose your thumb with your other fingers is an exclusive trait of humans.
30. WALKING CAPACITY/STANDING CAPACITY – primates have two forms of locomotion. Bipedalism the
capacity to walk and stand on two feet.
31. NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION - This period is characterized by a major shift in economic subsistence of the
early humans from foraging to agriculture.
32. ANTHROPOLOGY - Humans studying humans. Anthropology promotes a holistic study of humans.
33. ARCHEOLOGY – examines the remains of ancient and historical populations to promote an
understanding of how humans adapted to their environment and developed.
34. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY – promotes the study of a society’s culture through their belief systems,
practices and possessions.
35. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY – examines language of group of people and its relation to their culture.
36. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY –looks into biological development of humans and their contemporary
variation.
37. APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY – attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of
theories and approaches of the discipline.
38. CULTURE IS EVERYTHING – It is what a person has, does and thinks as part of society. This implies all
of persons belief system, set of behaviors and material possessions.
39. Material Culture – includes all tangible and visible parts of culture, which includes clothes, foods and
even buildings Nonmaterial Culture – includes all intangible parts of culture, which consist of values,
ideas and knowledge.
40. CULTURE IS LEARNED – culture is set of beliefs, attitudes and practices that an individual learns
through his or her family, school, church and other social institutions. Enculturation – is a process of
learning your own culture.
41. Acculturation - is a process of accommodating desirable traits from other culture.
42. Deculturation – culture has been lost and even cultural trait itself is in the process of being forgotten.
43. CULTURE IS SHARED – This implies that a particular behavior cannot be considered as a culture if
there is only one person practicing it. Culture is shared intergenerational.
44. CULTURE AFFECTS BIOLOGY – Humans are born into cultures that have values on beauty and body.
As such, they alter their bodies to fit physiological norms that are dictated by their culture.
45. CULTURE IS ADAPTIVE – Culture is a tool for survival that humans use in response to the pressures of
their environment.
46. CULTURE IS MALADAPTIVE – Culture can also cause problems for the people who subscribe to it.
These problems arise when environment is change and culture has remained the same.
47. CULTURE CHANGES – The final characteristic of culture it is never static. This dynamism of culture is
due to changing needs of humans as they interpret and survive in their environment.
48. CULTURE – derives from the latin words “cult” or “cultus” which can mean “tilling”, “cultivating”, or
“refining worship”.
49. - 50. UCSP – Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Types of Exam
1. Multiple Choice
2. Identification
3. True or False
4. Bonus question
