Chapter 1 Lesson 1UNDERSTANDING Society, Culture, POLITICS

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UNDERSTANDING
CULTURE, SOCIETY,
AND POLITICS: SOME
KEY OBSERVATION
The class will be divided into 5 groups with
one to be chosen as leader
Make a Creative Group Presentation to
the following:
1. Public Market
2. SM
3. Church
4. School
5. Restaurant/Fast-food Chain
Eating BALUT …….
 Who usually eats balut?
How it was eaten?
Why do you eat balut?
What is the status of eating balut?
Eating BALUT is a CULTURAL ICON of

the FILIPINOS
SOCIETY
 Likened to a diety possessing tripartite
powers
 Omnipotence – all powerful
 Omniscience – all knowing
 Omnipresence – everywhere
Represents the social structure and
organizations of the people sharing beliefs
and practices
SOCIETY
 Society is all powerful because its agents
control and run the machinery of social
control(laws, norms, values, beliefs, system,
religion, education
It is all knowing because its library keeps all
possible knowledge and collects the
memories of the people who form
it(language, symbols, arts, science)
It is everywhere because its spies are
scattered in the four corners of the
land(family, peers, school, church,
government)
CULTURE
 That complex whole which encompasses
beliefs, practices values, attitudes, laws,
norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge and
everything that a person learns and shares
as a member of society
Represents the beliefs, practices and
artifacts of a group
Complex whole which includes
knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law,
custom, and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by man as a member of a
society
 the way of life, especially the general
customs and beliefs of a particular group
of people at a particular time
In common parlance, it is often used to
refer to the symbolic markers used by
ethnic groups to distinguish themselves
visibly from others such as body
modification, clothing, or jewelry
A set of customs, traditions, and values of
a society or community such as an ethnic
group or nation
Linkage Between Society and
Culture
 A society is an organized group of
individuals while a culture is an organized
group of learned responses
The individual is a living organism capable
of independent thought, feeling and action,
but, his independence is limited and all his
resources are profoundly modified by
contact with the society and culture in
which he develops
 A society cannot exist apart from culture
A society is also made of persons and
their groupings
People carry and transmit culture, but they
are not culture
 No culture can exist except as it is
embodied in a human society
No society can operate without cultural
directives
Like matter and energy, mind and body,
culture and society are interdependent and
interactive yet they express different
aspects of the human situation
 it describes a concept as ‘the rational
purport of a word or a conception.
 Concept can be conceived more as a
means rather than as end.
 Culture is a perfect example.
Students as Social beings
 Our categories as male/female, rich/poor,
tall/short, and even the problematic effect
of the color of our skin are evidences of
the operation of these social forces.
 Sociality is defined by the very categories
that we possess, the categories assigned
to us by society at large.
 Our genders, for example, mirror the way
our culture reads us as member of society.
Social Realties: Behavior and
Phenomenon
 1.Gary graduated a year ago. Despite
being blessed with several job offers, he
chose to remain jobless and hang around
with his barkada. Together they love to
istambay in the town plaza especially at
night.
ISTAMBAY
ISTAMBAY
 It is a usual scene in the streets of Manila
and else were in the urban areas in the
country.
 It is a behavioral feature of most young
people who feel that the company of other
young people is more meaningful and
exciting than staying at home or reading
book.
LAGAY
 It is about bribing.
 influence either through money or
connections is being exerted to achieve
certain ends or pursue a specific agenda.
 3. Members of the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church are strongly prohibited from eating
pork and food with blood, as well as from
smoking and drinking alcohol beverages.
 Food taboos
Food taboos
Related to a group-based practice made
possible and stronger by a set of beliefs
revolving around the nexus of health and
religion.
4. Darius is openly gay. He lives with his
partner Garner. He and Garner are both
college professors in the local city college.
 SAME-SEX
PARTNERSHIP
SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIP
 It is about a form of lifestyle associated
with a specific sexual preference and
romantic arrangement.
5. If grades were to be the basis of Rusty’s
standing in the economics class, he would
surely fail the course. However, he was
given a passing grade by his economics
teacher, who happened to be a childhood
friend of his mother.
 Use of a go-between/padrino
Values and Beliefs as Behavior
Motivators
 Values are a person’s or a collectivity’s
principles or standards of behavior and are
considered as judgement of what is
important of life.
Values are the criteria people use in
assessing their daily lives, arranging their
priorities, and choosing between
alternative courses of action.
 Values have major influence on a
person’s behavior and attitude, and they
serve as broad guidelines in behavior in all
situations.
Beliefs
 it takes the form of firmly held opinion or
conviction, regardless the lack of verifiable
evidence.
 It may be based on traditions, faith,
experience, scientific research.
SOCIAL DYNAMICS: SOCIAL,
POLITICAL AND CULTURAL
CHANGE
1. Taking “selfies” is Alyssa’s
preoccupation. It became a habit when her
parents gave her a phone on her birthday.
SELFIENG
SELFIENG
arecent behavioral pattern
due to the infiltration of
technology.
2. Kapitan Tim is the incumbent mayor of
the City of Amin-amin. His son, Timmy Jr
is current running for the congressional
seat of the district, a position is occupied
by his mother Cong. Valencia for about
three consecutive terms.
 POLITICAL DYNASTY
POLITICAL DYNASTY
 A familiar one and reflects the durability of
certain cultural and political practices.
3. Amina, a college student is living alone
in Manila. Both of her parents are working
in the Middle East. She visits them every
summer break.
 TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES
TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES
 It represents an emerging pattern of
family relations.
 As a youth volunteer, Verna finds the
rainy season a busy season due to the
frequency of typhoon related disasters.
Sometimes she even spends her own
money to buy relief goods for typhoon
victims.
 YOUTH VOLUNTEERISM
YOUTH VOLUNTEERISM
 It appears to be a personal expression of
a political principle by an increasing
number of people.
 5.Michael almost missed the chance to
finish high school because he had been
absent most of the time playing Clash of
Clans (COC).
VIDEO GAMING
VIDEO GAMING
 is fast becoming a normal behavioral
pattern among the younger members of
the Filipino society.
EVALUATION
 Answer page 13 (Matching Type) and
Performance on a sheet of yellow paper.
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Prepared by:
Mr. Rozell G. Magsombol, LPT

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