UCSP LESSSON1 . UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS

1. Understanding
Culture, Society and
Politics
2nd Semester

2. Activity: A Glimpse Back!
• Reminisce life back during pandemic.
Before Covid-19 During Covid-19
Way of life
View of the world
Priorities in Life
Relationship with
others

3. Questions to ponder:
• Can we consider these changes as examples of social change? Why
or why not?
• What are the roles of government in protecting us from harmful
effects of this pandemic?
• Aside from the government, how do you think other sectors of the
community like schools, churches, and industries, can cope with
these changes?
• What are your fears related to this unexpected event in your life?
How do you deal with your worries during this time of Covid-19
pandemic?

4. Objectives:
a) Identify human cultural variations, social
differences, social change, and political identities.
b) Differentiate culture, society and politics.
c) Appreciate how these concepts affect human’s
way of life.

5. Picture Analysis:
Using the given illustration, identify the concepts that you can relate to culture,society, and politics.
Culture Society Politics

6. Defining terms:
After doing the activity, give your own definition of culture, society, and politics.
a.CULTURE –
b.SOCIETY –
c. POLITICS –

7. CULTURE
• Sum of an individual’s way of life – food we eats,
clothes we wear, and the house we live.
• Both material and non-material things
• Non-material – norms and values
• Also includes fads and fashion trends, manners, and
taboos as well as scientific knowledge and technology
that manifest through tangible aspects (architectural
and engineering wonders, advancement in medicine,
and breakthroughs in transportation and
communication

8. SOCIETY
• Generally defined as an organized group or
groups of interdependent people who share a
common territory, language, and culture, and
who act together for collective survival and well-
being
• People depend upon one another can be seen in
different social features (economic,
communication, and defense systems
• Bound together by a general sense of common
identity and pride of place

9. Culture and Society
• In reality, there can be no culture without
a society and so far there are no known
human societies that do now exhibit
culture.

10. Politics
• Theory, art and practice of government
• Political institution is a relatively stable cluster
of statuses, general norms, and role behavior
which are involved in the acquisition and
exercise of power and decision-making
• The monopoly of legitimate use of physical force
within a given territory
• How that power is acquired and maintained
• How that power is organized and exercised

11. Power
• Is manifested in the acquisition of statuses and
functions. Example is the President.
• As defined in democratic principles, is a status
granted to individuals or institutions to properly
run the government and implement the rule of
the law in the society

12. Other Concepts:
•Gender
•Socioeconomic status
•Ethnicity
•Religion

13. Gender
• Socially constructed characteristics of being male or female
• Serves as guide on how males and females think and act about
themselves; the way they interact with others, and how they
perform their various roles in society
• Culturally-learned difference between men and women
• There is a popular notion that gender deals only with differences,
wherein society constructs masculine and feminine people
• In reality, it is how society confers power on each of these sexes
that leads to the development of a sense of empowerment and
sensitivity
• Overall, gender also operates as a dimension of inequality –
division of labor

14. Socioeconomic Status
• Refers to the category of persons who have more or less the
same socioeconomic privileges in a society
• Privileges are due to inherited wealth and/or the
occupational status of the breadwinner in the household
• In the Philippines, three type of classes;
a. Upper – elite families
b. Middle – small business and industry operators
c. Lower – farm employees, skilled and unskilled artisans,
service workers and people who may be unemployed or
underemployed or those who belong to indigent families or
informal sectors

15. Ethnicity
• The expression of the set of cultural ideas held by
a distinct ethnic or indigenous group
• An ethnic group refers to people who collectively
and publicly identify themselves as distinct and
unique based on distinguishable cultural
features that set them apart from others, such as
language, shared ancestry, common origin,
customs and traditions

16. Religion
• An organized system of ideas about the spiritual
sphere or the supernatural, along with associated
ceremonial or ritualistic practices by which
people try to interpret and/or influence aspects of
the universe otherwise beyond human control

17. Exceptionality
• Refers to the state of being intellectually gifted
and/or having physically or mentally challenged
conditions concerning personality/behavior,
communication (learning disability, speech
impairment, and hearing problems), intellect
(mild intellectual and mental development
disabilities), physical appearance (blind-low
vision), or combination of more than one specific
exceptionality or disability

18. Nationality
• The legal relationship that binds a person and a
country
• For people who are legally born of Filipino
parent/s and those naturalized in the country
after fulfilling the requirements of residence are
granted the nationality of Filipino citizens or
naturalized Filipinos