Ucsp module 2 for grade 11 humss students

1. Analyze the Concept,
Aspects and Changes
in/of Culture and
Society
Quarter 1 Module 2
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

2. WHAT I NEED TO KNOW
Lesson
1
Analyze the Concept, Aspects and Changes of
Culture and Society
(UCSP11/12DCSIc-8)
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• analyze the concept of culture and society; and
• determine the aspects and changes of culture and
society.

3. Activity 1. What I Think About
This
WHAT’S NEW
Directions: List down your observation about the given picture below. Write your
observations in your paper.
1. 2.

4. What is it?
What have you noticed on the pictures above? These have something to do with culture.
• Culture refers to a group or community which shares
common experiences that shape the way its members
understand the world. It includes groups that we are
born into, such as race, national origin, gender, class, or
religion. It can also include a group we join or become
part of.
• It is a strong part of people's lives. It influences their
views, values, humor, hopes, loyalties, worries and
fears. It helps to have some perspective and
understanding of their cultures.

5. What is it?
What have you noticed on the pictures above? These have something to do with culture.
• It consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other
characteristics common to the members of a particular
group or society.
• Through culture, people and groups define themselves,
conform to society's shared values, and contribute to
society.
• The major elements of culture are symbols, language,
norms, values, and artifacts.

6. What is it?
1. A symbol is anything that is used to
stand for something else.
People who share a culture often attach a
specific meaning to an object, gesture,
sound, or image. For example, a cross is a
significant symbol to Christians. It is not
simply two pieces of wood attached to each
other, nor is it just an old object of torture
and execution. To Christians, it represents
the basis of their entire religion, and they
have great reverence for the symbol.

7. What is it?
2. Language is a system of words and
symbols used to communicate with
other people.
This includes full languages as we usually
think of them, such as English, Spanish,
French, etc. but, it also includes body
language, slang, and common phrases
that are unique to certain groups of
people.

8. What is it?
3. Systems of values are culturally
defined standards for what is good or
desirable.
Members of the culture use the shared
system of values to decide what is good and
what is bad.

9. Activity 2. Alternating Flow Chart
WHAT’S MORE
Directions: Using the alternating flow chart, write your opinion on the concept, aspects and
changes of culture and society on a separate sheet of paper.
This is an example:

10. Processed Questions:
1. What are your findings/ opinions based on facts?
2. What are the positive effects of globalization?
3. How can you make the negative effects of globalization
into positive one?

11. Activity 3. Essay Writing
WHAT’S MORE
Directions: Use the space below to explain the concept, aspects and changes
of culture and society.
_________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

12. Let Us Remember!
WHAT I LEARNED
• Cultural artifact or artefact is a term used in the
social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology,
and sociology for anything created by humans which
gives information about the culture of its creator and
users.
• Artifacts are such valuable tools for exploring the
past and using them to understand the past.

13. Let Us Remember!
WHAT I LEARNED
• Human values are essential in our life because they
help us to grow and develop. It is a person's
standards of behaviour, principles and own
judgment. Some of the values, human treasures
are honesty, love, happiness, and integrity.
• Social and cultural norms are rules or expectations
of behaviour, and thoughts based on shared beliefs
within a specific cultural or social group.

14. Let Us Remember!
WHAT I LEARNED
• Social change - variations or modifications in the
patterns of social organization of subgroups within
society
• Cultural change - refers to all alterations affecting
new traits or trait complexes and changes in a
cultures content and structure.

15. Activity 4. Reflection
WHAT’S MORE
Directions: In writing your reflection, you have to complete the sentence below.
Write your answer in your activity notebook.
I learned that________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
I realized that____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
If given a chance_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________

16. Activity 5. Slogan Making
WHAT I CAN DO
Directions: Create a slogan on your personal opinion or insights on the
concepts, aspects and changes of culture and society. Illustrate your slogan in a
piece of bond paper with your explanation.

17. LET’S TEST IT!!
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
1. It is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make
judgments using the standards of one's own culture.
A. Sociological view B. Culture C. Cultural relativism D. Society
2. It refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that
shapes the way its members understand the world.
A. Politics B. Society C. Political Science D. Culture
3. It is anything that is used to stand for something else.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language
4. Refers to a system of words and symbols used to communicate with other
people.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language

18. LET’S TEST IT!!
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer in
your activity notebook.
5. It refers to valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to understand the
past.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language
6. These are rules or expectations of behaviour and thoughts based on shared
beliefs within a specific cultural or social group.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language
7. Refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a
cultures content and structure.
A. Cultural change C. Political change
B. Social change D. Sociological change

19. LET’S TEST IT!!
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer in
your activity notebook.
8. A variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization of sub
groups within society.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological
change
9. Cultural relativism teaches us that, marriage patterns are__________, not
objective truth.
A. Social option B. Political option C. Cultural option D. Socio-cultural
option
10. It is a person's principles or standards of behaviour.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artifacts D. Language

21. WHAT I NEED TO KNOW
Lesson
2
Explain the Importance of Cultural Relativism in
Attaining Cultural Understanding.
(UCSP11/12DCSId-10)
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• define cultural relativism; and
•explain the importance of cultural relativism in attaining cultural
understanding

22. Activity 1. Complete Me
WHAT’S NEW
Directions: Complete the diagram by supplying the importance of cultural
relativism in attaining cultural understanding. Write your answer on your activity
notebook.
Questions:
1. What is the importance of cultural
relativism?
2. How do you relate each of its
importance?
3. Why do you think it is important to know
cultural relativism?

23. What is it?
Was it hard to complete the diagram? To give you an idea of what it is, read and understand
the following concepts.
• Cultural relativism is the ability to
understand a culture on its own terms and
not to make judgments using the standards
of one's own culture.
• The goal of this is to promote
understanding of cultural practices that are
not typically part of one's own culture.

24. What is it?
Was it hard to complete the diagram? To give you an idea of what it is, read and understand
the following concepts.
• Cultural Relativism is important to
anthropology and one of the things that
makes anthropology unique because it is a
tool, a method for attempting to see things
from a multiplicity of viewpoints so as to
better understand them.

25. What is it?
Was it hard to complete the diagram? To give you an idea of what it is, read and understand
the following concepts.
• Cultural Relativism does not mean that
anything a culture does is good or moral.
This is one of the ones that confuse people.
• Cultural relativism teaches us that,
marriage patterns are cultural options, not
objective truth.

26. What is it?
Was it hard to complete the diagram? To give you an idea of what it is, read and understand
the following concepts.
• Cultural Relativism doesn’t mean that
cultures can’t be compared. There is
sometimes a strange notion that there are
no commonalities between cultures.
• This is one of the reasons why those
trained in cultural anthropology are often
great problem solvers for complex issues.

27. Activity 2. Stop and Reflect
WHAT’S MORE
Directions: Create a table that shows a summary of what you have learned from the
discussion above. Write your answer in your notebook.
What Cultural Relativism is What Cultural Relativism is
not
The importance of Cultural
Relativism

28. Activity 3. Conceptualize Me
WHAT’S MORE
Directions: Use the given picture to conceptualize the importance of cultural relativism in
attaining cultural understanding.

29. Processed Questions:
1. What can you say about the picture?
2. How the given words from the picture help you
conceptualize the importance of cultural relativism in
attaining cultural understanding?

30. Activity 4. Essay
WHAT’S MORE
Directions: Write in your activity notebook NOT MORE THAN 200 WORDS
your understanding and observation.
_________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Why do you think there is a need to understand cultural relativism in our
society? Expound your answer by providing examples.

31. Let Us Remember!
WHAT I LEARNED
• The importance of understanding cultural relativism is to
know one's own culture.
• Understanding this perspective of cultural relativism leads
to the view that no culture is superior than another culture
and the idea that culture can be compared in terms of law,
politics, and systems has no bases at all.
• The concept that a person's beliefs, values, and practices
should be understood based on that person's own culture,
rather than be judged against the criteria of another.

32. Let Us Remember!
WHAT I LEARNED
• Cultural relativism cannot be used to evaluate other
cultures based on the ideas you believe in. An example is a
country who specialized dried fried crickets for food, and
you think it is weird because it is not usual in your culture.
• Cultural relativism is an idea, that cultures must be
examined, based on their own context and merits, not to be
seen as customs and codes of other cultures. Cultural
relativism is important in studying minority cultures,
colonized cultures, and other traditions which belongs to
another culture.

33. LET’S TEST IT!!
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
1. It refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes
in a cultures content and structure.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological
change
2. It refers to valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to
understand the past.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
3. It is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make
judgments using the standards of one's own culture.
A. Sociological view B. Culture C. Cultural relativism D. Society

34. LET’S TEST IT!!
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
4. These are rules or expectations of behavior, and thoughts based on shared
beliefs within a specific cultural or social group.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
5. Cultural relativism teaches us that, marriage patterns are__________, not
objective truth.
A. Social option B. Political option C. Cultural option D. Socio-cultural
option
6. It is a person's principles or standards of behaviour.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language

35. LET’S TEST IT!!
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write
your answer in your activity notebook.
7. It refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that shape
the way its members understand the world.
A. Politics B. Society C. Political Science D. Culture
8. Refers to a system of words and symbols used to communicate with other
people.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
9. It is anything that is used to stand for something else.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language
10. It is a variations or modifications in the patterns of social organization of
subgroups within society.
A. Cultural change C. Political change
B. Social change D. Sociological change