Starting points in understanding culture, society and poltiics

1. Starting Points in
Understanding Culture,
Society and Politics

2. Let’s Play a Game!
Step forth, step back

3. Step forth, step back
• If your parents work nights and weekends
to support your family, take one step back.
• If you can show affection for your
romantic partner in public without fear of
ridicule or violence, take one step forward.
• If you were embarrassed about your
clothes or house while growing up, take
one step back.

4. • If you have ever been diagnosed of having
a physical or mental illness/disability, take
one step back.
• If you have ever been bullied or made fun
of based on your looks, take one step back.
• If you have struggled financially to attend
in a private school, take one step
backward.
• If you have been laughed at because of
your gender identity, take one step back.

5. • If you had to take much effort to access
transportation in going to school, take one
step backward.
• If you have changed your religion without
prejudice from parents/peers, take one
step forward.
• If you have been a participant in political
activities, take one step forward.

6. Process Questions:
• What was your feeling when you were moving
forward? Moving backward?
• At the end of the activity, how did you feel when
you were moving forward farther from the
others? How about when you were left behind at
the back?
• Were you able to identify your social, cultural,
and political identity?
• Why is it necessary to know your place in the
society?

7. Transition statement:
• Knowing one’s identity is important especially to
students so that one will be able to know his/her
specific role to perform in the society, be it
politically, culturally and socially and translate
the gained knowledge into actions beneficial to
nation building.

8. Instruction: Video analysis
Process questions:
• What cultural diversities were shown in the
video?
• Were you able to identify your position in terms
of the different diversities shown in the video?

9. Find a partner
What is culture?
What is society?
What is politics?

10. Find a partner
Race
Age
Ethnicity
Sex
Gender
Religion Sexual Orientation
Socio-Economic Status
physical and mental abilities

11. Practice:
• Were you able to identify the cultural, social and
political differences within the classroom? What
are those?
• What was your reaction knowing you are way
farther in terms of cultural, social and political
differences?
• How will you deal with these differences?

12. Enrichment: Picture Analysis

19. Process questions:
• Were you able to identify the pictures shown?
• Did you find some of the pictures as offensive?
• How do the pictures affect you?
• How do you respond to social changes/issues?

20. Evaluation:
Modified True or False: Write T if the statement is correct. If
false, write the correct term/phrase to correct the statement in the
space provided in each item.
1. Culture is generally defined as the sum of an individual’s way of life.
_____________________
2. Politics refers to the “theory, art, and practice of government.”
_____________________
3. Gender serves as a guide on how males and females think and act
about themselves._____________________
4. The middle class consists of elite families. _____________________
5. Based on the 2006 census of the National Statistics Office, the most
populous ethno-linguistic group are the
Tagalog.____________________

21. 6. Citizenship or nationality gives government a sense of
identity and belongingness.____________________
7. Norms are often in the form of rules, standards, or
prescriptions that are strictly followed by people who
adhere on certain conventions and perform general roles.
____________________
8. The disciplines of anthropology, political science and
sociology are important in comprehending the dynamics of
culture, society and politics.____________________
9. Deviancy exist in the absence of conformity which can be
formal or aformal. ____________________
10. Invention, discovery and diffusion trigger social class.
____________________

22. Social Science Research
Objectives/Guidelines:
• The class had been divided to groups with 3 or 4
members to have a social research about the
different topics of the subject.
• The topics would cover the social, cultural and
political phenomena or actors/agents.

23. • Researchers would include the contents ONLY of the
following:
▫ Brief Title
▫ Background of the Study
▫ Research Problem and Objectives
▫ Scope and Limitation of the Study
▫ Locale of the Study
▫ Research Design and Methods
▫ Research Respondents
▫ Data Gathering Procedures and
▫ Research Instruments.

24. • Discussion among members is essential.
• The rubrics provide the priorities of the
researchers.
• Researchers must give a consolidated report file
(WORD file) and the presentation (PPT or
Manila paper) to the instructor.
• The individual grade reflects to the group grade.
• Sources must be in APA Style.
• Ask the INSTRUCTOR if there were any
concerns regarding the research.