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SHS LEARNING ACTIVITY # 7

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Activity Title: Defining Culture and Society

Learning Targets: Define culture and society.
Create an art or drawing showcasing different perspectives of society and culture.
References: Arcinas Myla M., Understanding Culture, Society and Politics p. 24-25

People rarely distinguish the difference between the terms “culture” and “society,” but for sociologists, the
two terms have different meanings and the distinction is important.

SOCIOLOGISTS
A group of people the study human behavior, interaction, and organization.

Culture
The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices associated with a particular field, activity, or
societal characteristics
Society
describes a group of people who share a common territory and a culture. By “territory,” sociologists refer
to a definable region—as small as a neighborhood (e.g., barangay), a city (e.g., Manila), a country (e.g.,
Philippines), to as large as the global regional context (e.g., Asia).

“Neither society nor culture could exist without the other.”

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SHS LEARNING ACTIVITY # 8

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Activity Title: Types of Society

Learning Target: Identify the different types of society.
References: Arcinas Myla M., Understanding Culture, Society and Politics p. 25-26

Sociologists have classified the different types of societies into six categories, each of which possesses its
own unique characteristics:

HUNTING AND GATHERING These are the earliest forms of society. These are small and generally with
SOCIETIES less than 50 members and is nomadic. The members survive primarily by
hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering edible plants.
Rely on products obtained through the domestication and breeding of animals
PASTORAL SOCIETIES
for transportation and food.
HORTICULTURAL These societies rely on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and plants in order
SOCIETIES to survive.
AGRICULTURAL They rely on the use of technology in order to cultivate crops in large areas,
SOCIETIES including wheat, rice, and corn.
They use advanced source of energy to run large machinery which led to
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
industrialization.
POST-INDUSTRIAL Their economy is based on services and technology, not in production.
SOCIETIES

Keywords:

Nomadic- People who lives by traveling from place to place.

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Activity Title: Aspects of Culture

Learning Target: Identify the classifications and elements of culture.
References: Arcinas Myla M., Understanding Culture, Society and Politics p. 26-30

ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Cultures have key features (classification and key elements) and characteristics that are present in all
cultures.
CLASSIFICATION OF CULTURE
All cultures have visible/tangible and nonvisible or nontangible components.

Cultural Components:
 Visible/Tangible- called material culture.
 Nonvisible/Nontangible- without physical representation and these are called nonmaterial culture.
 Nonmaterial Culture:
-Cognitive Culture- includes the ideas, concepts, philosophies, designs, etc. that are products
of the mental or intellectual functioning and reasoning of the human mind.
-Normative Culture- all the expectations, standards, and rules for human behavior.

Elements of Culture
All cultures consist of key elements that are crucial to human existence:
1. Beliefs- are conceptions or ideas people have about what is true in the environment around them
like what is life, how to value it, and how one’s beliefs on the value of life relate with his or her
interaction with others and the world.
2. Values- These are broad, abstract, and shared to influence and guide the behavior of people.
- It guides the behavior of people in a given society or what ought to be.
3. Symbols-.Symbols can be verbal (words) or nonverbal (acts, gestures, signs, and objects) that
communicate meaning that people recognize and shared.
4. Language- It is basic to communication and transmission of culture. It is known as the storehouse
of culture.
5. Technology- refers to the application of knowledge and equipment to ease the task of living and
maintaining the environment.
6. Norms- are specific rules / standards to guide appropriate behavior.

Defines and tells us things not to do.

Proscriptive
Discourage negative behavior.
Types
Defines and tells us things to do.
Prescriptive
Encourage positive behavior.
These are norms for everyday behavior that people follow for the sake of
Folkways
tradition or convenience.
Mores These are strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior.
Forms These are norms that society holds so strongly that violating it results in
Taboos
extreme disgust.
These are codified ethics, and formally agreed, written down and enforced
Laws
by an official law.

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SHS LEARNING ACTIVITY # 9.2

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Activity Title: Aspects of Culture

Learning Target: Identify the characteristics of culture.
References: Arcinas Myla M., Understanding Culture, Society and Politics p. 26-30

Characteristics of Culture
All cultures share basic characteristics that are key to its existence.
1. Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive. This basically means that cultures interact and change. All
cultures change, or else they would have problems adjusting and adapting to changing
environments. Culture is adaptive and dynamic, once we recognize problems, culture can adapt
again, in a more positive way, to find solutions.
2. Shared and may be challenged (given the reality of social differentiation). As we share
culture with others, we are able to act in appropriate ways as well as predict how others will act.
3. Learned through socialization or enculturation. It is not biological; we do not inherit it but learn
as we interact in society. We learn, absorb, and acquire culture from families, peers, institutions,
and the media. Patterned social interactions. Culture as a normative system has the capacity to
define and control human behaviors.
4. Integrated. This is known as holism, or the various parts of a culture being interconnected or
interlinked. Transmitted through socialization/enculturation. As we share our culture with
others, we were able to pass it on the new members of society or the younger generation in
different ways
5. Requires language and other forms of communication. In the process of learning and
transmitting culture, we need symbols and language to communicate with others in society.