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1. UNDERSTANDING
CULTURE,
SOCIETY AND
POLITICS
MR. REYNALD A. DE VERA

2. THREE FACETS OF
SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. SOCIAL (actions and interactions)
2. CULTURAL ( practices and traditions)
3. POLITICAL (power relations)

3. SOCIAL
SCIENCES
•These are also called “disciplines”.
•These disciplines may be likened to a “lens”.

4. CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND POLITICS
•are CONCEPTS.
•are INTANGIBLES.

5. SOCIAL REALITIES :
BEHAVIOR &
PHENOMENON
•What makes it normal and acceptable to
some people in some places and
unacceptable to others in other places?

6. SITUATION:
1. 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
istambay in town plaza especially at
night.

7. SITUATION:
2. As a businessman, Mang Leo is used to
giving “padulas” (or lagay) to his main
suppliers in order to expedite his business
transactions with them.

8. SITUATION:
3. 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.

9. SITUATION:
4. Pisot is openly gay. He lives with his
partner Garner. They are both college
professors in the local city college.

10. SITUATION:
5. If grades were to be the basis of Rusty’s
standing in his UCSP class, he would
surely fail the course. However, he was
given a passing grade by his teacher, who
happened to be compadre of his mother.

11. HUMAN BEHAVIORS
•VALUES – judgment of what is
important
in life
•BELIEF – one accepts as true or real.

12. Give examples of
Social, Political, and Cultural
Change!

13. SOCIAL, POLITICAL,
CULTURAL
CHANGE?
•SELFIE
•POLITICAL DYNASTY
•TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES
•YOUTH VOLUNTEERISM
•VIDEO GAMING

14. WHAT IS
SOCIOLOGY?
• the study of society, social
institutions, and social
relationships.