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INTRODUCTION TO
CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND
POLITICS
ACTIVITY #01
◦ Directions:
◦ 1. Get one whole sheet of paper.
◦ 2. Write your name inside the circle.
◦ 3. Draw figure 1 on the sheet of paper
◦ 4. Write the following information of
yourself in the 4 spaces:
◦ a. gender
◦ b. socio-economic class ( rich/average/poor)
◦ c. ethnicity (tagalog/bisaya/ilocano etc.)
◦ d. religion
◦Starting points for the
understanding of
culture, society and
politics
A society’s way of life
It includes how people constructed their life,
customs, values, norms, religions,
ceremonies, show the way they dress, eat,
drink etc.
MIDDLE CLASS
With 190 000 pesos income per year
LOWER CLASS
62 000 income per year
• Refers to people who collectively and publicly identify themselves
as distinct and unique based on distinguishable cultural features
that set them apart from others. ( Haviland, etal.: 313)
• It is the expression of the set of cultural ideas held by distinct
ethnic or indigenous group.
◦Is an organized system of ideas
about the spiritual sphere or the
supernatural, along with associated
ceremonial or ritualistic practices by
which people try to interpret and or
influence aspects of the universe
other wise beyond human control
(Havinland, et.al.: 554)
◦Refers to the state of being intellectually
gifted and or having physically or mentally
challenged conditions concerning
personality/ behavior, communication.
◦The legal relationship that binds a person
and a country.
Serves us guides or models of behavior which tell us
what is proper or improper, appropriate or
inappropriate, right or wrong.
Are often in the form of rules, standards, or
prescriptions that are strictly followed by people who
adhere on certain conventions and performs specific
roles.
ACTIVITY #03
ACTIVITY #04
Directions: Based on the output from the previous activity, the teacher will ask the
students to discuss their observations based on the following questions:
1. What are the similarities and differences of every individual?
2. Do these similarities and differences affect the life of the whole community? Why?
The teacher will give each group a time frame of 2 minutes to present their answers
group outputs. Processing of answers shall follow.
ACIVITY #05
Social
Cultural
Political Change
Refers to variations or modifications in the patterns of social
organization, of sub groups within a society, or the entire
society itself.
It is the change that occurs in the realm of civil and political
societies and in the structure of relations among civil society,
political society and the state.
It refers to the alterations affecting new traits or trait
complexes and change in a culture’s content and structure.
Anthropology
Sociology
Political science
ANTHROPOLOGY
• Is the scientific study of the origins of
humans, how we have changed over the years,
and how we relate to each other, both within
our own culture and with people from other
cultures.
• Anthropology is Arts and Science.
• The term originates from two words in Greek:
• Anthropos meaning “man” as in “human being”
• • logos meaning “study”.
THERE ARE FOUR MAIN SUBDIVISIONS
(AREAS) IN THE STUDY OF ANTHROPOLOGY:
Physical Anthropology
Archeology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Biological anthropology, also known as physical
ORDER
Is attained through obedience on the rules set
by leaders
JUSTICE
Is felt in a society with order.
Anthropology and Sociology
Anthropology
Sociology
Political
Science