Understanding Culture,

Society, and Politics

Articulation of Cultural, Social and Political
Identities

SHERYL G. IBALLA
Teacher
Objective
 Articulate observations on human
cultural variation, social differences,
social change, and political identities.
( UCSP11/12SPU-Ia-1)
Activity: Picture Analysis

*What do you see?

*What does it symbolises?

*What does it implies?

Activity: Round Robin Introduction
Students will be grouped into four and formed a
circle. Each member will introduce themselves
indicating the following info:
 Name
 Age
 Gender
 Religion
 No. of family members
Questions:
 Based on the output from the previous
activity what are the similarities and
differences of every individual?

 Dothese similarities and differences

affect the life of the whole community?
Why? How?
 Concepts

Identity is the distinctive characteristic

that defines an individual or is shared
by those belonging to a particular
group.
 Concepts
 Troubles are private matters that can be explained in
terms of personal characteristics, as well as immediate
relationships with family members, acquaintances, or co-
workers.
 Issues are public matters that can be explained by factors
outside the individual’s control and immediate
environment.
 Sociological Imagination is a quality of mind that will
help people to use the information in a way what they
can think about what is going on in the world and of what
may be happening within themselves.
-The sociological Imagination(1959) by C. Wright Mills
 Concepts
 People who possesses the sociological
imagination can view their inner life and human
career in terms of larger historical forces.

 They can understand their own experiences by

locating themselves in history

 Theycan recognize the responses available to

them by becoming aware of all of the individuals
who share the same situation as themselves.
 Whatis your insight about the concept
map above? Explain
The capacity to understand culture, society, and
politics in terms of possessing the sociological
imagination necessitates understanding of
related concepts such as

 Dynamism of culture, society and politics

 Social, political and cultural change
 Intersection of anthropology
 Sociology and Political Science
 Goals and subject inquiry of these disciplines
iKonek
 What is the connection between your
personal character and environmental
factors in the process of understanding
culture, society, and politics?

 As
a student, what is the importance of
understanding culture, society, and politics?
Words to ponder:
“If we understand the forces shaping our lives,
we are able to respond in ways that benefit
our own lives and that of other.”
C. Wright Mills (1959)
“Those who cannot make the connections are unlikely
to know how to respond effectively to a world in
which the lives of people around the globe are
interconnected and in which one’s society’s problem
are part of a larger global problems.
Joan Ferrante
Assessment
 1-3 Choose the best word that describe each statement.
*ISSUES *TROUBLES *SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
1. Private matters that can be explained in terms of personal
characteristics.
2. Public matters that can be explained by factors outside
individual’s control and immediate environment.
3. A quality of mind that will help people use information in a
way that they can think about what is going on in the world
and within themselves.
 4-5 TRUE OR FALSE
4. People with sociological understanding will have the
capacity to understand related concepts such as dynamism of
culture, society and politics.
5. Personal understanding is enough in order to survive
different societal challenges.
Index of Mastery
f % f %
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
Total Total
Index of Mastery
f % f %
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
Total Total
Assignment

 Look for the essay entitled “A Moral Recovery

Program:Building a people-building a nation” by
Patricia Licuanan.
 Read the article, share the article on your FB
Account and post a comment about the article
whether you agree or not with the author’s
proposed goals and strategies for change, and
why.
 Ask at least five FB friends (not from your school
of different age) to write a comment on your
post. Print screen your conversation thread, print
the file, and submit it.
References:

Understanding culture, society, and politics

for SHS by De Guzman, Pena and Aquino p.2-6
Curriculum Guide