This document discusses culture and society from anthropological and sociological perspectives. It defines culture and society as complex wholes that encompass beliefs, practices, values and social norms. It examines key aspects of culture, including that cultures are dynamic, shared, learned through socialization, can be transmitted through language, and involve patterned social interactions. The document also discusses sources of cultural change such as discovery, invention, diffusion, acculturation, assimilation, and colonization. It provides examples of Spanish and American influences that have changed Filipino culture.

14. Activity 1- Picture Analysis
Instruction: Arrange the Jumbled
Letters to form the correct word. Use
the picture to help you figure out the
word.

15. 1. XIFLEBLE

16. 2. TIONTERINAC

17. 3. CIMANDY

18. 4. GGAAUNELG

19. Answers:
1.FLEXIBLE
2.INTERACTION
3.DYNAMIC
4.LANGUAGE

20. Activity 2- Know My Culture
Instruction: List at least 5 Filipino customs, beliefs,
practices and traditions that you are practicing at
home.
List of customs, beliefs, practices and traditions
that you are practicing at home
(Answers from Activity 1)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

21. Culture and Society in the
Anthropological and
Sociological Perspectives

22. Learning Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, the students are able to:
1. Describe Society and Culture as a complex whole.
2. Explain the Anthropological and Sociological
Perspectives on Culture and Society.
3. Identify the aspects of Culture and Society.

23. Culture and Society as a Complex
Whole
Which encompasses beliefs, practices, values,
attitudes, laws and norms, artifacts, symbols,
knowledge, everything that a person learns as a
member of the society.

24. Anthropological and Sociological
Perspectives on Culture and Society
Anthropological
Perspectives
Sociological
Perspectives
Norms and values
Studies language
wide-range.
Study of society
Social relationship
Social interaction

25. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Dynamic, Flexible, and
Adaptive
Shared and Contested
Learned through
Socialization Enculturation
It can be
transmitted
Patterned Social
Interactions
Requires
Language

26. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Dynamic, Flexible, and
Adaptive
-Culture is dynamic as
it responds to the
changing needs of
time, alongside to the
motion and actions
within and around it.

28. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Shared and Contested -(given the reality of
social differentiation –
as we share culture
with others, we are
able to act in
appropriate ways as
well as predict how
others act.

29. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
-Enculturation- is the
process by which an
individual adopts the
behavioral patterns of
culture in which the
person is immersed.

30. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
It can be
transmitted
-as we share our culture
with others, we were able
to pass it on new
members of society or the
younger generation in
different ways.

31. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Patterned Social
Interactions
-Social Interaction-
The mutual
influence of two or
more people on
each other’s
behavior.

32. ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Requires
Language
-in the process of learning
and transmitting culture, we
need symbols and language
to communicate with others
in society.

34. Cultural Change
The society takes on new cultural
traits, behavior patterns, and social
norms, and creates new social
structures as a result.

41. Definitions of Cultural Change By
renowned sociologists.
“Changes in the culture of society is
called cultural change.”
-Horton & Hunt

42. Definitions of Cultural Change By
renowned sociologists.
“Embarrass Occurring in any branch of
culture including, art, science,
technology, philosophy etc. as well as
changes in the forms and rules of
social organization.”-Kingsley Davis

43. Definitions of Cultural Change By
renowned sociologists.
“It is the modification or discontinuance
of existing ‘tried’ and ‘tested’ procedures
transmitted to us from the culture of the
past, as well as the introduction of new
procedures.”-David Dressler and Donald
Caens

44. Sources of Cultural Change
1.Discovery- It is a new perception of an
aspect of reality that already exists.
(Example: The discovery of fire that led to the art of
cooking; discovery of oil, of organism and subtances; of
diseases, of atoms and sources of energy.)

45. Sources of Cultural Change
2.Invention- It is the combination or new use
of existing knowledge to produce something
that did not exist before.
(Example: Invention of number system,
government, language, democracy, religion
and alphabet.)

46. Sources of Cultural Change
3.Diffusion- It is the spreading of cultural
traits from group to another group.
(Example:Religous beliefs, technological ideas, language forms,
or social practices from a society or group to another
belonging to the same society or to another through direct
contact with each other and exposure to new forms.)

47. Sources of Cultural Change
4.Acculturation. It is cultural modification of
an individual, group, or people by adapting
to or borrowing traits from another culture.
(Example: The Filipinos are said to be the
best English-speaking people of Asia.)

48. Sources of Cultural Change
5.Assimilation. It is the process of combination
of two cultures in to one culture with
comprising cultural traits.
(Example: Americanization of Filipino
immigrants to the US.)

49. Sources of Cultural Change
6.Colonization- it refers to the political, social
and political policy of establishing a colony
which would be subject to the rule of
governance.

50. Spanish influence is evident today in law,
religion, education, language, family names,
architecture, the arts, music, cuisine, and
customs which have been adopted and blended
into the present-day Philippine culture.

51. The Americans brought influence to education to
the Philippines as well. The biggest influence
that can be seen today is found in the Philippine
government and economic system.

52. The Thomasites
Were a group of 600 American teachers who traveled
from the United States to the newly occupied territory
of the Philippines on the U.S. Army Transport Thomas.

55. Activity 3: Where do I Got You?
Instruction: Now identify the 5 Filipino customs,
beliefs, practices and traditions that you are
practicing at home that you listed earlier. Write if
said practices is Discovered, Invented, Diffused,
Acculturated or Assimilated, Colonized.

56. List of customs, beliefs,
practices and traditions that
you are practicing at home
(Answers from Activity 1)
Sources of
Change
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

57. Part I: Multiple Choice
Write only the letter that
corresponds to your answer.
1.It is a term that refers to a large and
diverse set of mostly intangible aspects of
social life.
a.Cultural Change
b.Culture Change
c.Culture
d.Society

58. 2.This term is used by sociologists and in public
policy to denote the way society is changed.
a.Cultural Change
b.Culture Change
c.Culture
d.Culture’s change

59. 3.He defines cultural changes embarrass
Occurring in any branch of culture including, art,
science, technology, philosophy etc.
a.David Dressler
b.Donald Caens
c.Paul Horton
d.Kingsley Davis

60. 4. This is a share patterns of behaviors and interactions,
cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by
socialization.
a. Cultural Change
b. Culture Change
c. Culture’s change
d. Culture

61. 5. It is a new perception of an aspect
of reality that already exists.
a. Diffusion
b. Discovery
c. Invention
d. Assimilation

62. Part II: True or False
Instruction: Write TRUE if the
statement is correct and type FALSE if
the statement is incorrect.
1.Culture is the characteristics and
knowledge of particular group of people,
encompassing language, religion, cuisine,
social habits, music and arts.

63. 2.Linguistic anthropology studies how
language affects social life.
3.Socialization is the process by which an
individual adopts the behavioral patterns of
culture in which the person immersed.

64. 4.In patterned social interactions, culture as
normative system has the capacity to define and
control human behaviors.
5.In the process of learning and transmitting
culture, we do not need symbols and language to
communicate with others in the society

66. Part I: Multiple Choice
Write only the letter that
corresponds to your answer.
1.It is a term that refers to a large and
diverse set of mostly intangible aspects of
social life.
a.Cultural Change
b.Culture Change
c.Culture
d.Society

67. 2.This term is used by sociologists and in public
policy to denote the way society is changed.
a.Cultural Change
b.Culture Change
c.Culture
d.Culture’s change

68. 3.He defines cultural changes embarrass
Occurring in any branch of culture including, art,
science, technology, philosophy etc.
a.David Dressler
b.Donald Caens
c.Paul Horton
d.Kingsley Davis

69. 4. This is a share patterns of behaviors and interactions,
cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by
socialization.
a. Cultural Change
b. Culture Change
c. Culture’s change
d. Culture

70. 5. It is a new perception of an aspect
of reality that already exists.
a. Diffusion
b. Discovery
c. Invention
d. Assimilation

71. Part II: True or False
Instruction: Write TRUE if the
statement is correct and type FALSE if
the statement is incorrect.
________1.Culture is the characteristics and
knowledge of particular group of people,
encompassing language, religion, cuisine,
social habits, music and arts.

72. _______2.Linguistic anthropology studies
how language affects social life.
_______3. Socialization is the process by
which an individual adopts the behavioral
patterns of culture in which the person
immersed.

73. ________4.In patterned social interactions, culture
as normative system has the capacity to define
and control human behaviors.
________5. In the process of learning and
transmitting culture, we do not need symbols and
language to communicate with others in the
society