Anthropology

&
Sociology
 STORY 1
Case of Fil-Canadian boy in 'spoon, fork'
controversy goes on
By ROUCHELLE DINGLASAN,
GMA News
Published March 28, 2012 4:30pm

Six years ago, a Filipino-Canadian boy

made headlines after school officials
said he "ate like a pig" for using a
spoon and fork as he had his lunch.
According to the news site The Filipino Reporter,
the case of Luc Cagadoc, now 13 years old, has
reached the Quebec Court of Appeal. Born in the
Philippines but raised in Canada, Cagadoc was
reprimanded by Marguerite-Bourgeoys School
officials in 2006 for eating in the customary Filipino
manner — with a spoon and fork — during lunch
break. “The school board and the school, Lalande
School in Roxboro, backed up the lunch monitor,
with school officials and teachers saying the boy
ate like a pig and should learn to eat like other
Canadians,” The Filipino Reporter said.
In 2010, Cagadoc and his family won the case they
filed before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.
“The tribunal in April 2010 ordered the
Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Board to pay
Cagadoc’s family $17,000, ruling school officials
mishandled the case,” The Filipino Reporter said.
In February this year, the school appealed the
case, saying that the Quebec tribunal had no
jurisdiction over the incident. However, the legal
counsel of Cagadoc thinks otherwise. The case is
under deliberation.
 STORY 2
An anthropologist proposed a game to African tribe
kids. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told
them that whoever got there first won the sweet
fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each
other’s hands and ran together, then sat together
enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they
had run like that as one could have had all the fruits
for himself, they said: UBUNTU, how can one of us
be happy if all the other ones are sad?

UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture means:

“I am because we are”
 Culture - “ways of life”.
Edward B. Tylor defined culture as, “that
complex whole which includes knowledge,
belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
member of society (Street 1998).

" Culture is man’s way of adapting to,

manipulating, and interacting with his
physical and social environment.
Social structures
- ways of interacting with other people.

Social structures or structures govern

how we live and interact with each other
in a given society (Form 1999). Social
structures include family, peers, school,
religion, economy, mass media, and
other.
Anthropology comes from the two
Greek words: anthropos, meaning
“human”, and logos, meaning
“study” or “inquiry”.

Hence Anthropology is the study of

humans, with a special emphasis on
human biological evolution as a
species and cultural practices.
On the other hand, Sociology is made
up of the Greek words: socius,
meaning “companion” or “friend”,
and logos, meaning “study” or
“inquiry”.

Hence Sociology deals with the

relationships and interactions of
people within society.
We were presented with two contrasting
stories; one story shows an unfortunate legal
battle due to differences in ways of using
utensils; the other story shows the inspiring
way how other people face challenges.
Although the two stories differ in a lot of
details, they both show an underlying pattern:
people across the globe have their own ways
of doing things, and ways of interacting with
other people.
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 TUKUYIN
_______1. Isang mekanismo ng pamamahagi ng
pinagkukunang-yaman upang lutasin ang suliranin ng
lipunan ukol sa kakapusan.
_______2. Ang mekanismo ng alokasyon ay
nakabatay sa tradisyon, kultura at paniniwala.
_______3. Ang produksyon at distribusyon ng mga
kalakal at serbisyo ay nagaganap mekanismo ng
malayang pamilihan na ginagabayan ng isang
sistema ng malayang pagtatakda ng halaga.
_______4. Ang ekonomiya ay nasa
ilalalim ng komprehensibong kontrol
at regulasyon ng pamahalaan.
_______5. Isang sistema kung saan
ang desisyon kung paano gagamitin
ang mga pinagkukunang-yaman ay
nasa kamay ng pribadong sektor at
pamahalaan.
TUKUYIN
1. ALOKASYON
2. TRADITIONAL ECONOMY
3. MARKET ECONOMY
4. COMMAND ECONOMY
5. MIXED ECONOMY
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