Cultural, social, and political symbols provide important clues about shared meaning within groups. Symbols help communicate recognizable ideas through gestures, objects, words and other means. It is important to understand that different groups may interpret symbols differently based on their own cultural beliefs and practices. Respecting various group symbols is vital for effective cross-cultural communication.

1. UCSP Week 4
Marie Joy Trinidad

3. Reminders
Make sure that you have your module with you before the class startsMake
Have a pen and paper readyHave
Actively participate inside the classParticipate
Use class signals when necessaryUse
Keep your mic on mute, only unmute when calledKeep
Turn your camera onTurn
Raise hand if you want to answerRaise
Use ? if you want to ask a questionUse
Use ! if you need helpUse

4. CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
SYMBOLS
GOALS 4A
 At the end of the lesson the students can:
 A. Define the cultural, social and
political symbols in their own
words.
 B. Analyse the differences of
cultural, social, and political
symbols.
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5. Walk thru
 Page 246-258
IMPORTANT
There are 2 parts of week
4
• Week 4A
• Week 4B

6. CHECKLIST 4A
Activity Points Accomplished
Pretest (Activity 1) 5
Activity 2 (Looking Back) 5
Activity 3 5
Activity 4 9
Activity 5 (Checking for
understanding)
15
Post Test 5

7. PRETEST

8. LOOKING BACK
Activity no.2 (5 points)
 In one statement how does
the picture speak to you about
Cultural Relativism?

9. SYMBOLS
 A symbol carries meaning to the people who share a culture because it is created and
maintained by the members of the culture. Symbols such as gestures, signs, objects,
signals, and words—help people understand their messages all over the world.

10. Different symbols
Cultural
Social
Political

11. CULTURAL SYMBOL
It is something that carries meaning to people who share a culture, is broadly understood and used so
frequently that it does not require explanation. Language, which is both an element and a reflection of
culture, is a system of symbols that allows members of a culture to communicate with one another.
Words symbolize objects, ideas, and actions. However, sometimes these meanings

12. Examples
In Language, “Hane” is an expression used in Tanay Rizal everytime they made a statement
like “kumain ka na ba hane? The same in Batangas, they have “Ala eh!” and “ga”, such as
"ala eh! saan ka ga nang galing?”. This language expressions give a unique identity to each
culture in our country particularly in Tanay and Batangas.

13. Examples
In gesture, it has also a symbol to express, kissing and hugging in western countries and in
our country is an expression of affection, but in Middle East countries is a form of honor
and respect.
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14. Examples
 In visual. In some culture’s colors are associated with gender, such as pink for girls and blue for
boys. Another example is traffic signage such as stop signs or symbols used on highways to
indicate where to stop for gas, food, or lodging.

15. Review
 https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f7e2ac8e55f9f001bf77112/ucsp-week-review

16. Examples
 Clothing and possession: in
commercial society having many money
and wealth and things that can be bought
by wealth such as car, house and fine
cloths are status symbol. In the
Philippines among the youths, one of
the obvious status symbols is having an
expensive branded smart phone or
gadgets. Other are fine watch, imported
bag and shoes etc.
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17. What Makes
Up Your Culture?
Societal recognition: Uniform symbolizes
membership of an organization and display ranks,
specialty, and societal position within organization.
A good example of this are military uniform with
rank insignia over the shoulder, doctor’s emblem
written their name, an engineer wearing a hard
hat, or a teacher known by the color-coded
uniform on daily schedule.

18. Example
 Symbol of love, wedding and
friendship: Red heart shape is
symbolizing love, two golden or silver
rings for wedding and friendship band to
seal friendship. Society finds way to
create symbols to convey their affections
and emotion.

19. Pollical
Symbols
Political symbols are used to represent the
political standpoint. The symbols can occur in
various media, banner, acronym, pictures, flag,
motto and many more.

20. Example
Red flags have traditionally been flown
by socialist, communist, left wing radical
to present the “blood of the workers”.
Many groups used political colors
associated to their political philosophy.
Political color as symbol used around the world:
Black – anarchism, fascism, Catholicism, Christian
democracy and black
Blue – conservatism, Judaism, men, monarchism and
liberalism
Brown – Nazism and Hispanic
Gold – capitalism and libertarianism
Green – conservatism, Islam and agrarianism
Red – communism and socialism

21. Wrap up
A symbol carries meaning to the people who share a culture because it is created and maintained by the
members of the culture.
CULTURAL SYMBOL - It is something that carries meaning to people who share a culture, is broadly
understood and used so frequently that it does not require explanation.
SOCIAL SYMBOL - It is a perceived visible, external denotation of one’s special and perceived indicator of
social status
POLITICAL SYMBOLS - Political symbols are used to represent the political standpoint. The symbols can
occur in various media, banner, acronym, pictures, flag, motto and many more.

22. Activity 3 (5 points)
1. Which of the examples is NOT considered as a symbol?
A. Emotions C. Ideas
B. Objects D. Gestures
2. What kind of symbols carries meaning to people who share a culture, as broadly understood and used so frequently that it does not require explanation?
A. Political Symbol C. Cultural Symbol
B. Sociological symbol D. Philosophical symbol
3. What kind of symbols are used to represent the political standpoint?
A. Political Symbol C. Cultural Symbol
B. Sociological symbol D. Philosophical symbol
4. What color symbolize conservatism, Judaism, men, monarchism and liberalism?
A. Black C. Gold
B. Blue D. Red
5. What kind of sociological symbol that is common in commercial society using many money and wealth for status symbols?
A. Symbol of love and wedding C. Societal recognition
B. Clothing and possession D. Symbol of friendship

23. Activity 4 (9 points)

24. CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING (15 points)
 Complete the sentence according to how you have learned the lesson.
 Cultural symbols helps me to value that…
 Sociological symbols made me realize that…
 Political symbols allow me to understand that…

25. POSTTEST (5 points)

26. GOALS
4B
 A. Identify the importance of
Cultural, Sociological and Political
symbol in our society.
 B. Value and respect the unique
Cultural, Sociological and Political
symbol in our society that are
different from them.
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27. PRETEST (5 points)

28. Looking back
 Cultural Symbol – It is something that carries meaning to
people who share a culture, is broadly understood and
used so frequent that it does not require an explanation.
 Everyone knows this gesture all around the globe and its
desire for peace not for war and hate. This symbolized
the culture of promoting peace.

29. Looking back
 SOCIAL SYMBOL - It is a
perceived visible, external
denotation of one’s special
and perceived indicator of
social status.
 This symbol was used as
a password from early
church in Jerusalem to
protect their members from
persecution and
imprisonment. At this time
this symbol speaks about a
group of people who follows
Christ, known as Christianity

30. Looking back
 POLITICAL SYMBOLS - Political symbols
are used to represent the political
standpoint. The symbols can occur in
various media, banner, acronym, pictures,
flag, motto and many more.
 This political symbol, Nacionalista Party is
the oldest political party in the Philippines
and in Southeast Asia, responsible for
leading the country throughout the majority
of the 20th century since its founding in
1907.

31. CHECKLIST WEEK 4B
Activity Points Accomplished
Activity 1 (Pretest) 5
Activity 2 15
Activity 3 15
Activity 4 (Postest) 5
Summative (Ziprade) 15

32. Importance of Cultural, Sociological and Political Symbols
 People group such as cultural group, sociological group and political group used symbols that convey meaning
and it is a tool for a communication. Communication is based upon the use of mutually understood symbols.
 Symbols—such as gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words—help people understand that world.
They provide clues to understanding experiences by conveying recognizable meanings that are shared by
societies or people group. The used of symbols are helpful to provide clues to understanding experiences by
conveying recognizable meanings that are shared by Culture, Sociology and Politics.
 People create and interpret the meaning of all symbols solely through shared cultural, sociological and
political understanding. Communication can occur only if people know how to use and interpret a shared set of
symbols. The ability to communicate is thus rooted in culture. A culture's shared set of symbols is
produced and maintained through shared cultural beliefs, sociological practices, and political expectations.

33. For Example
This is the universal cultural sign or gesture for
peace, all over the world used this to convey
message of harmony not war. It might look as
simply as an index and middle finger raised
together to other people but it means so much to
places and people living in terrorism, chaos and
war. So this symbol is very precious to them and
Peace is all they want.

34. For Example
During the World War II and after, this symbol of Nazi Party as
political party in Germany, the “swastika” was the most hated in the
world due to his cruel and hostile act of killing of millions of
Europeans and of 6 million Jewish race alone during Holocaust. But
the swastika was a symbol of “Aryan identity” and national pride in
Germany during those time. But not for the family and victims of
cruelty and hostility. Each race gave different meaning on this
symbol.

35. How others perceived symbols
I heard a story sometime ago regarding “NO ENTRY” symbol and how Filipino and American interpret it. This is
how the story goes on.
A symbol of “No Entry” was posted in the door for a purpose. When the American saw and read it, he said to
himself maybe this symbol was posted for my protection and safety and it will bring me to harm if I insists to
go inside and then he goes.
Later, a Filipino came and about to enter when he noticed a symbol “No Entry” posted in the door. Furious
because he can not go inside, shouted: Who put this symbol on this door? Why somebody denying me the access
to go inside? Do they know who I am?
(Disclaimer: this story was unvalidated not sure if this is true or not or just for humor).
Two human being has two different meaning to the same symbol. The one look at it as precaution while the other
one look at it as privilege or entitlement. Sounds strange and amusing that somebody will demand his right for
symbol that has no power to argue with.
This story remind us that symbols communicate messages to use and to interpret by its purpose not by our own
preference. It is important to understand that each cultural, sociological and political group used symbols to
communicate their ideas and admonition. It is vital to remind ourselves to carefully understand, respect and give
value to the symbols of each cultural, sociological and political group.

36. Wrap up
 The used of symbols are helpful to provide clues to understanding experiences by
conveying recognizable meanings that are shared by culture group, sociological
group and political group.
It is important to understand that each cultural, sociological and political group used
symbols to communicate their ideas and admonition.
It is vital to remind ourselves to carefully understand, respect and give value to the
symbols of each cultural, sociological and political group. We may took the meaning
differently, nevertheless we ought to accept each other’s perception.

37. CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING:
Activity 3 (15 point)

38. Posttest
Activity 4 (5 points)

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