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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Prepared by: ROPER T. GAMALI., LPT
SECOND QUARTER
MODULE 6: THE HUMAN PERSON IN SOCIETY
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The students should be able to:
1. Understand the relationship of individuals and forms societies and,
2. Present reflection paper toward one self and society
Content Focus:
1. Society and social structure
2. Socialization
3. Culture
Expected Task:
1. Present reflection paper.
Try This
Study the picture below and identify who is your close contact within the society and
state your reason why?
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 What role did you play in the society? and why
a) solitary – independent / alone c) parallel – play alongside together
b) onlooker – watching alongside d) associative – play together for a goal
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God did not create man as a “solitary being,” but wanted him to be a “social being” (cf. Gen
1:27; 2:18-20, 23). Life in society is not something “added-on” for the human person; it
stems from an important dimension intrinsic to human nature. Human beings can grow
and attain their calling in life only in union with others or associative.
Processing Questions:
Member of the Family
Friends, love ones
School mates, teachers people from public placesSociety Interaction

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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Prepared by: ROPER T. GAMALI., LPT
The study of human person in society situated in the context of CHANGE that crated in
political, social, culture, and economic.
 Give example of:
1. Political change
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2. Social / cultural change
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3. Economic change
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Society refers to interacting individual sharing a common culture. Types of society (a) non-
industrial: hunting and gathering, horticultural, pastoral, and agricultural societies. (b)
industrial and post-industrial societies:
 State what types of society you belong and why?
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 What is the role of the government in the society?
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 What is the role of school in the society
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 What is the role of church in the society
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 What is the role of family in the society
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SOCIETY
Government
Family
School
Church
Economic
Figure 1 Elements of Society

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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
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 What is the role of economic in the society
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 What is your role in the society
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Society is a complex to achieve the solidarity and stability what to do to accomplish? Is to
work together this is the very reason that we need companionship or friendly association
with others, an alliance, a community, or a union. Thus society is the one who defined of
who you are, where you interact day to day, and reflected your presence and the people
around you.
Human person exist to relate with others that naturally as a social being because he / she
has the tendency to go out of himself or herself to form a bond and relationship with
others. As we grow old our relationships and responsibilities also change because we play
more significant roles in the community where we live. Humans, however, are the only
beings capable of establishing a SOCIETY, which is an organized group of people whose
members interact frequently and have a common territory and culture.
Social structural refers to pattern of interaction and networks of relationship in a society.
Its elements are (a) Status – social position of an individual. (e.i.)Ascribed status- social
position assigned to the individual. Achieved status- social position which an individual
assumes and reflect personal ability and effort. Master status- show a person social identity
and shapes a person’s life. (b) Role- behavior expected of someone who occupied a
particular status (e.i) Role conflict-conflict between the role associated with two or more
statuses. Role strain-tension between roles associated with a single status. (c) Institution-
cluster of norms which perform certain social functions. (d) Group-is composed of two or
more persons who share a common pattern of social interaction.
 State your social structure and why?
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Socialization is process by which individuals develop their potential and acquire culture.
Socialization agent such as family, school, peer, mass media
 What kind of skills and knowledge do you have that you want to improve and what
socialization agent did you think that can help you to develop your skills and
knowledge and why?
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Social stratification hierarchical system that the society uses to divide people into levels
based on wealth, power, and prestige. It exists in all societies and persists across
generation although it may differ in form or system of operation.
 State what social stratification your family belong and why?

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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
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If you keep seeing your way of doing things as the right way and everybody else’ s as the
wrong, you tend to have the attitude called ethnocentrism.
 Give example of ethnocentrism in a sentence form.
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If you saw unpleasant sensation or frustration when a traditional-bounded Filipino goes to
the US and observes the open display of love emotion you are in the stage of culture shock.
 What is culture shock and give example in a sentence form
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Culture refers to everything which is socially learned and shared by members of the
society.
 Why culture is learned and shared socially?
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Acculturation – massive cultural change that people are force to make as a consequence of
an intensive firsthand contact between their own group and other, often more powerful,
society. Learning other culture.
Enculturation –
Characteristics of Culture
1. culture is learned
 How to learn from other culture? State your answer in a sentence form.
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2. culture is shared
 In what manner that culture can be shared? State your answer in a sentence form
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3. culture is dynamic
 How culture become dynamic. State your answer in a sentence form.

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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
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4. culture is adaptive
 How culture become adaptive. State your answer in a sentence form.
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5. culture is integrated
 Why culture is integrated. State your answer in a sentence form.
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Norms of Culture
1. Folkways are customary rules of conduct while Mores refers to special folkways which
involve moral or ethical value.
2. Laws are formalized social norms enacted by people who are vested with political and
legal authority.
3. Values: Asal as core value which include a person idea about worth and desirability.
4. Beliefs / Rituals: beliefs are a person’s conception or ideas about the surrounding while
ritual is highly scripted ceremony.
 Integration of understanding between the components of culture, nature of culture
and the nurture of culture. How this three interrelated to each other. And why?
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 If the nature of culture is innate, genes, hereditary it is possible to transform or
change based on the component of culture? Y/N and why?
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Innate
genes
heredity
Traits from the parent to offspring
Nature of culture
Nurture of Culture
Environmental experience
Culture

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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
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Cultural change
1. cultural Lag: time lag between a change or innovation and accomplishment of the social
and cultural adjustments. Adopt another culture.
2. culture shock disorientation & frustration with in another culture.
3. culture change by invention is the development of something totally new and widespread
acceptance in society.
4. culture change by innovation is an improvement on something that already exists.
5. culture change by diffusion is the spread of cultural traits, ideas, customs or practice
from one culture to other. (obsolescence)
6. cultural relativism – evaluate a culture by its own standards.
7. Ethnocentrism- evaluate another culture by the standards of one’s own culture. (superior)
8. Xenocentrism - refers to preference for foreign things. (superior)
9. Cenocentrism – inferior
10. Isolation – a culture continues to develop on its own
Mode of Acquiring Culture
1. imitation- duplication of culture
2. indoctrination – culture formally transferred
3. conditioning culture is learned then rewards.
1. which of the following statement is NOT an acceptable inference on culture and individual
personality.
a) culture develops individual personality c) culture isolates individuals from the group
b) socialization process develops culture d) children practice can form distinct personality type.
2. the most radical and far-reaching kind of change is
a) evolution b) invention c) revolution d) diffusion
3. it describes a condition in which member of a society have different amount of wealth, power and
prestige.
a) social mobility b) social stratification c) social inequality d) social change
4. most societies are socially stratified and they are manifested in various aspect of culture. Which
is not a manifestation of stratification?
a) power b) wealth c) prestige d) tradition
5. which of the following are determinants of social stratification?
a) power, wealth and social class c) power, wealth and prestige
b) power, wealth and age d) wealth, prestige and race
6. it refers to everything which is socially learned and shared by member of the society.
√Self-check:

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MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
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a) nature b) nurture c) culture d) folkways
7. which of the following statement about culture in NOT true?
a) it is learned by group of people c) it is static
b) it I different from pace to place d) it is transmitted cross generations.
8. these refer to the family, schools, peer group, and the media which influence an individual to
develop their human potential and learn culture.
a) total institution b) socialization c) counterculture d) subculture
9. an individual consider his/her culture as the best and all other culture are inferior. This is
referred to as.
a) ethnocentrism b) cultural relativism c) assimilation d) acculturation
10. the process of casting aside social practices unsuited to new circumstances and replacing them
with more appropriate social practice is called
a) socialization b) resocialization c) enculturation d) ethnocentrism
11. all societies have means to ensure that their member conform with social norms. The general
term for these means is:
a) social control b) fines c) values d) taboos
12. which of the following is not a group
a) board of directors b) family c) university sorority d) all football fans
13. the main transmitter of culture from generation to generation is
a) diffusion b) invention c) language d) education
Answer Key
1.C 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.C 6.C 7. C 8.B 9.A 10.B 11.A 12.D 13.D
REFERENCES:
Books
1. PNU, Social Studies
Online
1. https://philosophy.lander.edu/search/index.html