understanding culture, society, and politics prelims reviewer

1. UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS 12
REVIEW MATERIAL
CULTURE It defines how people relate to
nature and their physical environment.
ANTHROPOLOGY It always describes
human, human behavior and human
societies around the world.
POLITICAL SCIENCE It is a social science
that deals with humans and their interactions.
SOCIETY is a large group of people living
together in an organized way.
Structuration studies the INTERACTION
between social structures and agency.
Determine what aspect of culture, from floor-
length skirts, to knee length skirts, then
above the knee skirts— the acceptable
length of skirts evolved. DYNAMIC
LANGUAGE Determine what aspect of
culture, you can learn how to dance by
watching dancers, reading manuals, or
asking a dance instructor to teach you.
CONTESTED Determine what aspect of
culture when there are different versions of
spaghetti: creamy, sweet, Italian-style.
INTANGIBLE Determine whether the
following cultural elements paying respects
to the dead
SOCIAL STRUCTURE is the pattern of
social interactions in a given society.
F Sociology is about how different people
can be, but it also tries to find out in what
sense it can be said that all humans have
something in common.
T Ethnocentrism refers to the evaluation
other people’s culture from one’s own
vantage-point and describing them in one’s
own terms.
F Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism are
both on the same spectrum in viewing
culture.
T Anthropology is the comparative study of
cultural and social life. Its most important
method is participant observation, which
consists in lengthy fieldwork in a particular
social setting.
T According to St. Augustine of Hippo, state
was a necessary evil and that man needs
state to guide him to perfection.
F Stoics believe that individuals and
communities can exist without any authority
ruling over them
T Skeptics believe that affairs of the state
were not their business and not worth their
attention.
F Neo Evolutionism believes that all social
institutions thus appear as functional; if they
are not functional, they vanish.
T Internet transcends dualisms such as
local/global and small scale/large scale
F Traditions are learned behaviors as well as
the beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideals that
are characteristic of a particular society
This body of knowledge tries to account for
the social and cultural variation in the world,
it also deals with conceptualizing and
understanding similarities between social
systems and human
relationships. Anthropology
School of thought in Cultural Anthropology
that believes that all cultures undergo the
same development stages in the same
order. Cultural Evolutionism
A consistent pattern of thoughts, feelings and
actions displayed by
individuals. Personality
This refers to the perspective that sees
cultures as qualitatively different and have
their own unique inner logic, and that it is
therefore scientifically absurd to rank them
on a scale.Cultural relativism
Which among the following is not one of the
three basic attitudes towards politics? State
Have a further readings about:
➢ 3 Disciplines of Social Science
Anthropology
Sociology
Political Science
➢ Material culture
➢ Non-material culture
➢ Cognitive culture
➢ Normative culture
TYPES OF SOCIETY
➢ Hunting and gathering societies
➢ Pastoral societies
➢ Horticultural societies
➢ Agricultural societies
➢ Industrial societies
➢ Post-industrial societies
Read everything you’ve wrote on your UCSP
notebook.
PREPARE THE FOLLOWING ON MONDAY:
➢ BALLPEN
➢ ½ LENGTHWISE PAPER
➢ YOUR KNOWLEDGE IN UCSP
➢ YOUR MANNERS TOWARDS THE
TEACHER
➢ CONFIDENCE IN PASSING THE TEST
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