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School PHILIPPINE COLLEGE OF Grade Level 12
SEMI DETAILED TECHNOLOGY
LESSON PLAN Teacher KRIS C. MANTILLA Learning Area Community, Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship
WEEK 2
TIME Quarter

I. OBJECTIVES

A. Content Standard Perspectives in/approaches to the study of culture and society (i.e., comparative, historical,
structuralfunctional, interpretive, critical)
B. Performance Demonstrate a holistic understanding of culture and society.
Standard
C. Learning Competency
Explain the importance of cultural relativism in attaining cultural understanding.
based on MELCs:
D. Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, the students are expected to:
a) Discuss the concept of Ethnocentrism, Xenocentrism, and Cultural Relativism through a presentation.
b) Demonstrate the application of Cultural Relativism by means of role-playing.
c) Develop a sense of respect and understanding towards other cultures through Cultural Relativism

II. CONTENT

A. Topic: Explain the Importance of Cultural Relativism in Attaining Cultural Understanding

B. Time Frame: 60 minutes

 C. Learning Resources: K-12 MELC, Supplementary Activity Sheets, Textbook, Pictures, PPT of the lesson, and
Laptop

D. References:

E.21st Century Skills: Critical-Thinking, Collaboration, Problem Solving and Communication Skills

III. PROCEDURE

A. Routinary Act

1. Prayer

2. Greetings

3. Cleaning

4. Checking of Attendance

5. Important Reminders: Recalling Classroom Rules.

6. Review

B. Activity

Motivation – Brainstorming

 Guided Question
 Have you ever encountered a situation where understanding cultural differences helped you communicate
better with someone from a different background?"

C. Analysis – PROCESS QUESTIONS

1. The students will answer the following questions:

 How did you find the activity being done?

  From the activity being done, what do you think are the things we will be talking today?
 What are you prior knowledge about the words you act in the activity?

D. Abstraction

 Cultural differences are dominant than cultural universal, despite how much individuals have similarity. Cultural
Universals are traits that are parts of every known culture. These include bodily adornment, courtship, dancing,
education, food taboos, funeral rite, etc. Cultural Universals give rise to Ethnocentrism and Cultural
Relativity/Relativism
 Cultural relativism is a principle that an individual person’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in
terms of that individual’s own culture. It was established and accepted in anthropological research by Franz Boas in
the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students. It refers to not judging a culture to our
own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal. Instead, we should try to understand cultural practices of
other groups in its own cultural context. In other words, right and wrong are culturespecific. What is considered
moral in other society may be considered immoral in another, and since no universal standard of morality exist, no
one has the right to judge another society’s customs to be correct or incorrect.
 Ethnocentrism, in contrast to cultural relativism, is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of
one’s own culture. According to William G. Sumner, ethnocentrism is defined as the “technical name for the view of
things in which one’s own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.”

E. Application – Debate

 The class will be divided into 2 groups.

 The first group will be the Cultural Relativism and the other group will be Ethnocentrism.
 Assign students to research both sides of the topic.
 Each group must have

 Lead Debater: Presents the main arguments

 Support Debaters: Provide additional points and rebuttals.
 Researchers: Gather information and help prepare arguments.
  Timekeeper: Keeps track of time during the debate..
 Support Debaters: Provide additional points and rebuttals.
 Researchers: Gather information and help prepare arguments.

 Timekeeper: Keeps track of time during the debate.

 Time Management

 Strictly adhere to the time limits for each segment to ensure fairness.
 Use a timer or assign a timekeeper to signal when time is up.

 Respectful Conduct

 Emphasize the importance of respectful language and behavior.

 No interrupting when someone is speaking.
 Encourage listening attentively to the opposing team’s arguments.

 Rubrics

F. Generalization

 The teacher will ask questions to the students about the studied topic.

1. What is Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism?

2. Can you give a scenario that are related to Cultural Relativism?

IV. EVALUATION – Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice Instructions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer from the choices provided under each number. Read
and understand the statements thoroughly.

1. Which of the following is the best definition of cultural relativism?

a. A cultural group’s desire to pass on its values to the next generation
b. Refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong
c. Measuring which culture are related to others
d. All of the above

2. What is ethnocentrism?
a. judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture.
b. judging another culture solely by the values and standards of another culture.
c. having no concept of right or wrong
d. both b and c

3. Which of the following sentences expresses cultural relativism?

a. an employee may refer to his client as a stupid if the client needed some time to understand whatever the employee
is trying to tell him
b. addressing a conservative woman in a liberated place as weirdo
c. thinking that people who eats fried crickets are disgusting
d. none of the above

4. Which of the following is not a claim of a cultural relativist?

a. The moral code of a society determines what is right within that society
b. Different societies have different moral code
c. It is good to judge the conduct of other societies
d. There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one society as better than another

5. What does the picture show?

a. Cultural relativism
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Both cultural relativism and ethnocentrism
d. None of the above
 V. ASSIGNMENT:

Research about… The early humans’ capacity and their determination to survive the elements of their environment and the
methods used by early humans in creating tools as well as their cultural and socio-political evolutions. Write it in your
notebook.

Prepared by: Approved by:

KRIS C. MANTILLA JULY BRIAN G. GUHAO, LPT, MAT-ENG

Instructor I School Principal