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    This document discusses key concepts in understanding culture, society, and politics. It defines culture as shared beliefs and traditions that define groups, society as social interaction and shared territory, and politics as governance over communities. These concepts are conceptual tools that allow analysis of social behaviors. The document also examines students as social actors and factors like gender that influence social differences. It provides examples of cultural behaviors and values as motivators, and discusses social, political, and cultural changes over time.

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    This document discusses key concepts in understanding culture, society, and politics. It defines culture as shared beliefs and traditions that define groups, society as social interaction and shared territory, and politics as governance over communities. These concepts are conceptual tools that allow analysis of social behaviors. The document also examines students as social actors and factors like gender that influence social differences. It provides examples of cultural behaviors and values as motivators, and discusses social, political, and cultural changes over time.

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    Ucsp Lesson 1 Grade 11

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    UNDERSTANDING

    CULTURE, SOCIETY,
    AND POLITICS:
    SOME KEY OBSERVATIONS

    LESSON I
    GUIDE QUESTION

    What constitutes our Sociality


    as human beings?
    HUMANS AS SOCIAL BEINGS
    Sociality is defined by the categories that we posses, the
    categories assigned to us by society at large. These
    ‘labels’, so to speak, function as tags with which our
    society read our worth or value.
    Example: Gender, mirror the way our culture ‘reads’ us
    as member of society.
    TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED:
    1. Society, culture, and politics as conceptual tools in
    the analysis of social behavior and interactions.
    2. Students as acting agents and social actors.
    3. Factors that accounts social differences, cultural
    variations, and political identities.
    TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED:
    1. Society, culture, and politics as conceptual tools in
    the analysis of social behavior and interactions.
    2. Students as acting agents and social actors.
    3. Factors that accounts social differences, cultural
    variations, and political identities.
    SOCIALITY in school setting
    OBSERVATION OF A SCHOOL AS
    SOCIAL WORLD AND STUDING AS
    SOCIAL AGENTS
    QUESTIONS:
    1. What sort of students go to school?
    2. What sort of things they do?
    3. What sort of activities they do?
    4. What sort of spots they tend to stay?
    5. What sort of interaction takes place between people
    of categories?
    FOOD also mirrors
    cultural diversity.

    Question: Why is
    Balut considered a
    unique cultural icon of
    the Filipinos?
    CULTURE, SOCIETY AND
    POLITICS AS PART OF THE
    SOCIAL SCIENCES
    CULTURE
    It is defined as the customary beliefs, social forms and
    traits that defines a specific racial, religious or social
    group. A deep and integral sense of personal honor
    which as part of his or her cultural heritage
    SOCIETY
    Comes from the Latin word ‘socius’ which means
    comrades, companion or friend. Pertains to a group of
    individuals involved in social interaction or sharing the
    same geographical or social territory.
    POLITICS
    Comes from the Greek word ‘Politika’ which means
    affair of the cities. Refers to achieving and exercising
    positions of governance over a human community.
    CULTURE, SOCIETY AND
    POLITICS AS CONCEPTUAL
    TOOLS
    CONCEPTS
    Are created and have been used to have a firm grip of
    phenomenon. According to Pierce (1998) concept
    describes as the “rational purport of a word or a
    conception”.

    (When you turn a term into a concept, you make it more


    rational)
    CONCEPT AS CONCEPTUAL TOOLS
    Allow us from other concepts, or relate concept to each
    other or even deconstruct old ones and replace them
    with something new.
    CONCEPT AS HEURISTIC TOOLS
    Allow the discovery of new aspects of a phenomenon.
    Concept can be conceived as ‘a means’ rather than an
    ‘end’.

    (Being heuristic means having assumptions in the field


    of social science)
    EXAMPLE
    Culture. With the concept of culture, anthropologist are
    able to explore and make sense of the complex
    processes and dynamics that characterize the great
    variety of ‘ways of living’ practiced and observed into a
    handy word.
    SOCIAL
    REALITIES:
    BEHAVIOR
    AND
    PHENOMENO
    N
    SITUATION
    Gary graduated a year ago. Despite being blessed with
    several job offers, he chose to remain jobless and hang
    around with his barkada. Together they love to go
    around in the town plaza especially at night.

    Behavior and Phenomena: Istambay


    SITUATION
    Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are
    strongly prohibited from eating pork and food with
    blood, as well as from smoking and drinking alcoholic
    beverages.

    Behavior and Phenomena: Food Taboos


    SITUATION
    Darius is openly gay. He lives with his partner Garner.
    He and Garner are both college professors in the local
    city college.

    Behavior and Phenomena: Same-sex relationship


    SITUATION
    If grades were to be the basis of Rusty’s standing in his
    economic class, he would surely fail the course.
    However, he was given a passing grade by his economic
    teacher; who happened to be a childhood friend of his
    mother.

    Behavior and Phenomena: Padrino System/Backer


    VALUES AND
    BELIEFS AS
    BEHAVIOR
    MOTIVATORS
    VALUES
    Are a person’s standards of behavior and are considered
    as judgement of what is important in life. It is also the
    criteria of people use in assessing their daily lives,
    arranging their priorities, and choosing between
    alternative courses of action.
    BELIEFS
    Is something one accepts as true or real. It takes the
    form of firmly held opinion or conviction, regardless of
    the lack of verifiable evidence. It may be based on
    tradition, faith, experience, scientific research or some
    combination of these.
    BELIEFS
    Is something one accepts as true or real. It takes the
    form of firmly held opinion or conviction, regardless of
    the lack of verifiable evidence. It may be based on
    tradition, faith, experience, scientific research or some
    combination of these.
    SOCIAL
    DYNAMICS:
    SOCIAL,
    POLITICAL,
    AND
    CULTURAL
    CHANGE
    SCENARIO
    Taking ‘selfies’ is Alyssa’s preoccupation. It became a
    habit when her parents gave her phone on her birthday.

    Phenomenon: Selfeing
    SCENARIO
    Kapitan Santiago Imperial is the incumbent mayor of
    the Vertigo City. His son, Wacky is currently running
    for the congressional seat of the district, a position
    occupied by his mother Congresswoman Amanda
    Imperial for about three consecutive terms.

    Phenomenon: Political dynasty


    SCENARIO
    Parker, a college student, is living alone in provident
    village. Both her parents are OFWs working in Canada.
    She visits them every summer break.

    Phenomenon: Transnational families


    SCENARIO
    As youth volunteer, Braylee finds the rainy season a
    busy season due to the frequency of typhoon related
    disasters. Sometimes, she even spends her own money
    to buy relief goods for typhoon victims.

    Phenomenon: Youth volunteerism


    CONCLUSION
    Scenarios presented are either new, emerging, and familiar.
    Scenario 1 on selfie is a recent behavioral pattern due to
    the infiltration of technology. Scenario 2 on political
    dynasty is a familiar one and reflects the durability of
    certain cultural and political practices. Scenario 3
    represents and emerging pattern of family relations.
    Scenario 4 is about volunteerism which appears to be a
    personal expression of political principle by an increasing
    number of people.
    CONCLUSION
    All of these scenarios is that they may all be considered
    as manifestations of cultural and political changes. New
    technological platforms facilitating communication, self
    expression, and interactions represent the cultural
    change, while possession and expressions of power
    represent political change.

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