Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Study of culture,
society, and politics
Learning Objectives
Recognize the common concerns or
intersections of anthropology, sociology,
and political science concerning the
phenomenon of change
 
Assess social, cultural, and political
issues through the lenses of the three
disciplines
Learning Targets
I can compare and contrast the
three disciplines in the social
science

I can apply the three social

science disciplines in analyzing
issues that have social, cultural,
and political relevance
Today’s Workplan

News Sharing/ What I know?

Discussion
Activity
Wrap Up
News Sharing

Content of Insights/Quality – 6 points

Significance of news/issue – 4 points
 Activity

What do I know?
 What do I know?
Students will choose one word from
the given below and share their
ideas about this word.

CULTURE SOCIETY

POLITICS
 Today's
Discussion
• Significance of studying
culture, society, and politics
• Rationale for studying
anthropology, political science,
and sociology
 Social Sciences
- Intended to find solutions to problems of the
society in order to improve the human condition
despite some cultural, social, and political
differences
- Presentations
A branch are
of science that studies
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society and
Presentations are
human
communication tools behavior
that in it, including
communication tools that anthropology,
communication tools that
communication
can be used as lectures, studies, criminology,
can be used as lectures, economics,
can be used as lectures,

geography, history,
speeches, reports, and
political science,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
psychology, social studies, and sociology.
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
 Society
- Is a group of
people with a
shared
environment,
Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are
cultural
communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that

beliefs, and
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
ways of living
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
 Culture
- is a group’s
shared belief
and value
system that is
preserved
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communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that
either through
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
material
speeches, or
reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and

non-material
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented

ways. before an audience.

before an audience. before an audience.
 Politics
- refers to a set
of activities and
actions that
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are Presentations are Presentations are
used to
communication toolshold
that communication tools that communication tools that
canpower in a
be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,

government
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
 Culture Society

This process of immersing oneself in a particular society

Presentations
and areculture, even at
Presentations
birth, isare Presentations are
called socialization.
communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
Politics
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
Politicsmore.
is also greatly
They’re presented
before an audience. before an audience. influenced byanculture
before audience.
and society.
 Sociology
• ‘Sociology’ - first used in 1780 by French
essayist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes in his
unpublished manuscript.
• Auguste Comte - reinvented the term to
Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are
characterize
communication tools that
the study of
communication tools that
society in relation
communication tools that
to
the
can be used scientific method
as lectures, can be used asand
lectures,naturalcansciences.
be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
 Sociology
SOCIOLOGY – systematic study of society and
behaviour of people in society
- relationships among people
- in order to fully understand society, a
perspective
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called “sociological
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imagination”
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can be used- asWright
lectures, Millscan in “The
be used Promise”canmentioned
as lectures, be used as lectures,

that “ sociological imagination enables us to

speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
grasp the connection between history
before an audience. before an audience. and
before an audience.
biography within society”
 Sociology
2 Major Approaches

- Macrosociology = social structure,

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social
communication institutions,
tools that communicationsocial
tools that organizations,
communication tools that

social
can be used as lectures,groupscan be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
- Microsociology = roles of the individuals
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
in the society
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
Paradigms in the study
of Sociology
Presentations are
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
Presentations are
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
Presentations are
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
 Anthropology
• is the holistic “ science of man” - a science of the
totality of human existence
• aims to scientifically examine the behavior,
origin, social, physical, and cultural
development of humans.
Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are
• Anthropologistscommunication
communication tools that
seek to determinecommunication
tools that
and predict tools that
can behuman origin and
used as lectures, behavior
can be used as lectures, by studying
can be used as lectures,

archeological
speeches, reports, and excavation or artifacts
speeches, reports, and and
speeches, by
reports, and
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
observing various living cultures worldwide.
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
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 3. Broad Fields in Anthropology
1. Physical anthropology – sometimes called biological
anthropology. It is mainly concerned with how humans emerged
and evolved through time (human paleontology). It is also
concerned with how human beings differ biologically
( human variation)

2. Cultural anthropology – basically concerned with the differences

Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are
of cultures from time to time.
communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
3. Archeology - studies past cultures through tangible or material
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
remains (prehistoric)
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
Anthropologists gather data and information
before an audience. before an audience.

through field works.

 3 Broad Fields in Anthropology
Presentations are
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
Presentations are
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
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Presentations are
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
 Political Science
• Aristotle - considered to be the world’s first political
scientist introduced scientific observation to the
discipline, making political science more advanced
back then.
• It is defined as a systematic and empirical study of
governance
Presentations are that examines societal, cultural, and are
Presentations

behavioral factors in the operation of government

communication tools that communication tools that
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
and politics.
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
• deals with systems of government and the
more. They’re presented analysis of
more. They’re presented
political activity, political behaviour, theories
before an audience.
before anand
audience.
practice
 Subfields of Political Science

Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are

communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
 Subfields of Political Science

Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are

communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
communication tools that
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
before an audience.
Let’s Compare!
Guide Questions:

1. What are the similarities and differences

between the are
Presentations three branches of social sciences?
Presentations are
2. How do the
communication toolsgoals
that of anthropology
communication differ
tools thatfrom
Sociology
can be used asand Political Science?
lectures, can be used as lectures,

3.speeches,
How isreports, and being studied
society speeches, reports,three
in these and
more. They’re presented

different branches? more. They’re presented

Presentations are communication tools that can be used as
before an audience.
before an audience.
more. They’re presented

before an audience.
 Sociology and other
Social Sciences
- There is no aspect of human life that can be
removed from social context
- history, economics, social psychology,
geography
Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are
communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
Sociology and Anthropology
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
- Sociology depends on Anthropology’smore. They’re presented
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented

understanding of the past in order to study

before an audience.
before an audience.
before an audience.

present day phenomena

 Sociology and
Anthropology

Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are

communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that
- Sociology
can be used as lectures,
depends on Anthropology’s
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
understanding
speeches, reports, and ofspeeches,
the past in order tospeeches,
reports, and studyreports, and
present-day phenomena
more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented

before an audience. before an audience.

before an audience.
 Sociology and
Anthropology
Common concerns:
- human society
- social groups and social institutions
Presentations are Presentations are Presentations are
communication tools that communication tools that communication tools that
- culture
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
- human
speeches, reports, and behaviorspeeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
- holistic understanding of society’s more.
more. They’re presented
influence
more. They’re presented
They’re presented

on people before an audience.

before an audience. before an audience.
 Sociology and
Anthropology
DIFFERENCES
- Anthropology
Presentations are studies society
Presentations are holistically, while
Presentations are
sociology
communication tools that studies only “ tools
communication only thatits particular
communication tools that
aspects”
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,

- Anthropology
speeches, reports, and – small, static
speeches, reports, and culture, past
speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented
- Sociology – vast and dynamic, present
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented

before an audience. before an audience.

before an audience.
Sociology and Political
Science

- Without sociology
Presentations are and anthropology,
Presentations are political
Presentations are

science
communication tools that will have no basis
communication tools that communication tools that
can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures, can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented
more. They’re presented
before an audience. before an audience.
before an audience.
Sociology and Political
Science
COMMON
Presentations are
CONCERNS Presentations are Presentations are
- laws
communication made by communication
tools that the state tools that communication tools that
can be-usedsocial
as lectures,customscan
and others
be used as lectures,that cancan
bebelegalized
used as lectures,
- reports,
speeches, social andinstitutions and
speeches, social
reports, and organizations
speeches, reports, and

- problems in the society that can bemore. addressed by

They’re presented
more. They’re presented more. They’re presented

before an audience.
the government
before an audience. before an audience.
Sociology and Political
Science
DIFFERENCES

- Political
Presentations are
Science – social organizations
Presentations are Presentations are
specializing
communication tools that in political
communication organizations,
tools that state, tools that
communication
and
can be used government,
as lectures, anused
can be organized
as lectures, community
can be used as lectures,
speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and speeches, reports, and

- Sociology – social beings and social more. They’re presented

more. They’re presented more. They’re presented

before an audience.
before an audience.
before an audience.

organizations, social institutions, unorganized

community
Activity
 Summary of RECAP 1 RECAP 2

Today's Class Rationale in the study of The significance of studying

Sociology, Anthropology sociology, political science
and Political Science and anthropology

RECAP 3 RECAP 4
Reminders:

• Submission of Drafts (Information you gathered,

Images that will be part of your content pictures while
working on the draft as a group, sources, etc. ) – on or
before Sept 19, 2022
Where to submit it? Please upload your work on the
google drive assigned to your respective class
• Written Work 1 – Study of culture, society and politics
will be posted via Quipper (Please work on this
activity until Sept. 21)
Sources:

Arcinas, Myla M. and Mactal, Ronaldo B. (2016).

Understanding Culture, Society & Politics. Phoenix
Publishing House , Inc. Quezon City, Philippines

Lanuza, Gerry M. and Raymundo, Sarah S. (2019).

Understanding Culture, Society & Politics. Rex
Publishing, Inc. Quezon City Philippines
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