Understanding

Culture, Society,
and Politics
SOCIA  Actions and interactions.
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CULTURA  Practices and tradition.
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political  Power relation.
  Also known in academia as
“Disciplines.”
Social  These disciplines may be likened to a
Science lens, which changes the way the wearer
sees things in terms of color, focus, and
details.
  And given their disciplinal foci, they
provide a precarious yet captivating
portrayals of social life as:
Faces of  impinged upon by social forces
the (Sociology)
 routinized by cultural practices
Social (Anthropology)
 constantly enmeshed in power
relations (Political Science)
 Culture, Society and Politics are
concepts. They exist in the realm
of ideas and thoughts. As such,
they cannot be seen or touched and
yet they influence the way we see
and experience our individual and
collective lives as social beings.
  are created and have been used to
have a firm grip of phenomenon.

“the rational purport of a word or

Concepts a conception.” –Pierce

The notion of a concept is very

much related to that of a definition.
Culture, Society and Politics as
conceptual tools are used in
making sense of social realities
altogether allowing us to form
other concepts, relate concepts to
another concept, or even
deconstruct old ones and replace
them with something new.
“Concept is one of the great
tools of all the scientific
knowledge.” –Max Weber

As a heuristic tool, it allows

the discovery of new aspects of
a phenomenon.
 Our sociality is define by the very
categories that we possess, the
categories assigned to us by
Student society at large. The categories–
as Social labels that are ascribed or given
Being to us individually and
collectively– functions as tags
with which our society read our
worth and value.
  Values – a person’s or a collectivity’s
principles or standards of behavior and are
considered as judgment of what is
Values And important in life. It has a major influence
Beliefs As on a person’s behavior and attitude.
Behavior
Motivator  Belief – Is something one accepts as true
or real. It takes the form of firmly held
opinion or conviction, regardless of the
lack of verifiable evidences.
 Cultural change

Social Political change

Dynamics
Social Change