Grade Level: Grade 11/12

Subject: Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Quarter Content Standards Performance Standards Most Essential Learning Competencies Duration K to 12 CG Code

First The learners

Quarter demonstrate an The learners
understanding of:
1. acknowledge human
1. human cultural cultural variation, social *Discuss the nature, goals and perspectives
variation, social differences, social change, and in/of anthropology, sociology and political Week 1
differences, social political identities science
change, and political
identities
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2. adopt an open and critical

2. the significance of attitude toward different
studying culture, social, political, and cultural
society, and politics phenomena through
observation and reflection
3. the rationale for
studying 3. appreciates the value of
anthropology, political disciplines of Anthropology,
science, and sociology Sociology, and Political
Science as social sciences

1. culture and society

as anthropological
and sociological
concepts 1. appreciate the nature of *Analyze the concept, aspects and changes Week 2
culture and society from the in/of culture and society
2. perspectives perspectives of anthropology
in/approaches to the and sociology
study of culture and
society (i.e., 2. demonstrate a holistic *Explain the importance of cultural Week 3
comparative, understanding of culture and relativism in attaining cultural
historical, society understanding
structuralfunctional,
interpretive, critical) 3. values cultural heritage and
express pride of place without
1. the human origins being ethnocentric
and the capacity for
culture
2. the role of culture *Analyze the significance of cultural, social, Week 4
in human adaptation Analyze key features of political and economic symbols and practices
3. processes of interrelationships of biological,
cultural and cultural and sociopolitical
processes in human evolution
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sociopolitical that can still be used and

evolution developed

1. how individuals
learn culture and
become competent 1. identify norms and values to
members of society be observed in interacting with * Explain the context, content, processes, and Week 5
how individuals learn others in society, and the consequences of socialization
culture and become consequences of ignoring
competent members these rules
of society

2. how individuals
should behave as part
of a political 2. assess the rules of social *Analyze the forms and functions of social Week 6
community interaction to maintain organizations
stability of everyday life and
the role of innovation in
response to problems and
challenges

Second *Explain the forms and functions of state and Week 7

Quarter 1. cultural, social, and 1. analyze aspects of social non-state institutions
political institutions as organization
sets of norms and
patterns of behavior 2. identify one’s role in social
that relate to major groups and institutions
social interests *Examine the functions and importance of Week 8
3. recognize other forms of education in the society
2. social stratification economic transaction such as
as the ranking of sharing, gift exchange, and
individuals according
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to wealth, power, and redistribution in his/her own *Examine the concept, characteristics and Week 9
prestige society forms of stratification systems using sociological
perspectives
3. social and political
inequalities as *Explain government programs and initiatives Week 10
features of societies in addressing social inequalities e.g. local,
and the global national, global
community
*Suggest ways to address social inequalities Week 11
(local, national and global)

the agents/
institutions, 1. evaluates factors causing
processes, and social, political, and cultural
outcomes of cultural, change
political, and social * Examine human responses to emerging Week 12
change 2. advocate how human challenges in contemporary societies
societies should adapt to such
changes