UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND
POLITICS
CORE
SUBJECT
ACTIVITY
“My Name”
“How well do we know each other?”
 TAKE NOTE: Don’t write your name.
MECHANICS
A. Write little-known facts about yourself
Example: 1. Something that your classmates could not know about
you.
Example: 2. Answering these questions:
WHO AM I?
I have ___________________ hair (straight brown long)
I have ___________________ eyes (beady) – small, round and bright
I am _________________ person (loving and caring)
I like to __________________ (watch horror and adventure movies)
I can ____________________(easily control my emotion)
I love _________________ (cats/dogs)
B. Pass the paper
C. Pick and read what is writing on it.
D. Guess who among your classmates
have that identity.
 OBJECTIVES:
 Define the concept identity and relate it to
culture, society, and politics
 Point out the significance of studying
culture, society, and politics;
 Relate the concept in action by observing on
social difference, social changes and
political identities
 Understanding human cultural variation
 IDENTITY

Who Am I?

Explaining every personality

individual have a
similarities and characteristics
differences which
make us unique qualities
Identity- is the distinctive characteristic
that defines an individual or is shared by
those belonging to a particular group.

IDENTITY Family
School
Nationality
Other factors
Identity can also change over the
course of a person’s lifetime.
 Identities are not fixed. It is continuously
shaped and reshaped by the passage
of time, the person’s life experiences,
and his or her interaction with other
people in society.

Identities are important because they

shape both individual and group behavior
as well as people’s views about other
people and society.
Reflecting on this enables a person to
appreciate what makes him or her similar
to and different from other people.

It also helps a person to understand that

identities are relational and contextual,
thereby avoiding the common pitfall of
having misguided notions or prejudices of
other people that are solely based on
one’s subjective views.
EXAMPLE: MUSLIM FOOD TABOO
Understanding…

CULTURE SOCIETY

POLITICS
Culture- commonly defined as a society’s
way of life, provides the basis for forging
identities.

Society- refers to a group of people

living in a community.

Politics - are the actions or activities

concerned with achieving and using
power in a country or society.
This lesson provides cultural, social, and
political concepts that 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.
 DEFINING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS

Culture is generally defined as the sum

of an individual’s way of life, ranging
from the food he or she eats, the clothes
he or she wears, and the house where she
or he lives.
 2 Primary categories of culture:

Material culture
- is composed of the physical or
tangible objects produced, shared and
utilized within society such as tools or
implements, paintings and other works of
art, architectural styles, weaponry, and
toys.
Nonmaterial culture
- consists of the intangible
properties and elements of society
that influence the patterns of action
and behaviour of its members.
Culture also includes fads and fashions
trends, manners and taboos as well as
scientific knowledge and technology that
manifest through tangible aspects, such as
architectural and engineering wonders,
advancement in medicine, and breakthroughs
in transportation and communication.
SINGKIL (MUSLIM)
SAYAW (TINIKLING)
PAGKAIN (FILIPINO)
DEFINING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS

Society is generally defined as an

organized group or groups of
interdependent people who share a
common territory, language, and
culture, and who act together for
collective survival and well-being.
The ways that people depend
upon one another can be seen
in different social features,
such as their economic,
communication, and defense
systems.
They also bound together by a general
sense of common identity and pride of
place. In reality, there can be no
culture without a society and so far
there no known human societies that
do no exhibit culture (Haviland, et
al:32).
 DEFINING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS

Politics refers to the “theory, art, and

practice of government”. The political
institution is a relatively stable cluster of
statuses, general norms, and role behavior,
which are involved in the acquisition and
exercise of power and decision-making
society. (Turner:215).
The Philippine government has
3 branches :
The Executive
The Legislative
The Judiciary
THE 3 BRANCHES OF PHILIPPINE
GOVERNMENT
CONCEPT IN ACTION
Gender is the socially-constructed
characteristics of being male or
female (Eccless 43). In short it
refers to society ‘s division of
humanity into two distinctive
categories based on sex.
It serves as a guide on how males
and females think and act about
themselves: the ways they interact
with others: and how they perform
their various roles in society.
However, in reality, it is how
society confers power on each
of these sexes that leads to
the development of a sense of
empowerment and sensitivity.
ACTIVITY
S____-___n___c _t___s
Socio-economic status
Socio-economic status refers to the
category of persons who have more or
less the same socioeconomic privileges in
a society. These privileges are due to
inherited wealth and/or the occupational
status of the breadwinner in the household
(Panopio, etc :327).
The type of social class/status operate in
varying forces and combinations at
different times within a society or in
diverse societies. In the Philippines, three
types of social classes are identified:
upper, middle, and the lower class. (The
other categories is classes A,B,C & D).
• The upper class consists of elite families.
• They are considered the most productive
in terms of resource generation and
oftentimes very successful in their
respective fields of interest and
endeavors-be in agriculture, industry,
business, and government.
• The elite has two general types
: the new rich and traditional
upper class.
• he new rich are these who have
humble beginnings and often
experienced rags - to – riches
turn of fortunes.
The middle class is composed of small
business industry operators mostly owners
and managers, professionals, office
workers, and farm owners with income
sufficient enough to provide a comfortable
and decent living.
Filipino overseas workers who contribute
greatly to the remittance economy, are
also included in this category.
Farm employees, skilled and
unskilled artisans , service workers,
and people who may be unemployed
or underemployed or those who
belong to indigent families or
informal sectors fall on the lower
class.
Comparatively speaking this group is the
largest in terms of number and relatively
earns their living through the following
conditions :

1). A family could hardly eat three

decent meals a day.
2). The daily income of the bread winner
could hardly feed the entire family.

3.) The breadwinner does not have a

permanent job.
ACTIVITY
VIDEO
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ACTIVITY
Judaism Hinduism
Catholicism Shintoism
Islam Taoism
Buddhism Confucianism
Ethnicity is the expression of the
set of cultural ideas held by a
distinct ethnic or indigenous
group.
 2000 CENSUS OF THE NATIONAL STATISTIC
OFFICE (NSO) EIGHT MAJOR ETHNO-LINGUISTICS
GROUPS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Tagalog Cebuano Ilocano Bisaya/Bi Ilonggo/ Bicol Waray Others
nisaya Hiligayn
on

28.1% 13.1% 9% 7.6% 7.5% 6% 3.4% 25.3%

 Exceptionality as used in this context ,
refers to the state of being intellectually
gifted and/or having physically or mentally
challenged conditions concerning
personality/behavior, communication
(learning disability, speech impairment, and
hearing problems), intellect (mild
intellectual and mental development
disabilities), physical appearance (blind-
low vision), or a combination of more than
one specific exceptionality or disability.
 Nationality is the legal relationship that
binds a person and a country. It allows
the state to protect and have jurisdiction
over a person (Wels:29). For people who
are legally born of Filipino parent/s and
those naturalized in the country after
fulfilling the requirements of residence
are granted the nationality of Filipino
citizens or naturalized Filipinos .
Citizenship or nationality gives people
a sense of identify and belongingness
individuals who are legally born
Filipino parents and those naturalized
in the Philippines are granted Filipino
citizenship.