UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND POLITICS

QUARTER 1 | LESSON 1A
ANTHROPOLOGY

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WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?

Good Morning learners!

Are you now ready?
I’m sure you are.
Today, we will have another journey for
the subject of UCSP…

Why there is a black and white color among people, geographic regions like Asian and European,
religion races like Christians and Islams? Did you ever think why we have so many races?

Today as a capstone of our discussion were going to use ANTHROPOLOGY to unpack between race,
color, and biology. In this course you will be able to understand more what is Anthropology and its perspective.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Despite of our physical and cultural difference,
we are one human race

LEARNING COMPETENCY:
 Articulate observations on human cultural variation, social differences,
social change, and political identities
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
 Articulate observations on human cultural variation, social differences,
social change, and political identities
 Identify the subjects of inquiry and goals of Anthropology
 Explain anthropological perspective on culture.

WHAT DO I KNOW?

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 Before you start this module
let’s have first a PRE-TEST to
check if you have a prior
knowledge about our topic.

1. Came from two Greek words Anthropos (human) and Logos (study).
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology
2. Is the comparative study of cultural and social life.
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology
3. Examines the remains of ancient and historical human population to promote an
understanding of how humans adopted to their environment and developed.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
4. Promote to study of a society’s culture through their belief system, practices, and
possessions.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
5. Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of theories and
approaches.
A. Applied Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
6. Looks into the biological development of human and their contemporary variation.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
7. Examine the language of a group of people and its relation to their culture.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
8. Anthropology has a four subdivisions…
A. True B. False
9. Important method in Anthropology is …
A. Sampling B. holistic
10. The study of human beings and their ancestors through time in terms of physical
characteristics, environmental and social relations and culture
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology

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 LESSO
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ANTHROPOLOGY
1A
WHAT’S IN?
Here’s a new
learning for you!

“Anthropology is the study of human beings and their ancestors through time in terms of physical
characteristics, environmental and social relations and culture.”
The American Anthropological Association describes anthropology as a science seeking to “ uncover principles
of behavior that apply to all human communities.” To an anthropologist, diversity itself – seen in body shapes
and size, customs, clothing, speech, religion, and worldview.

A short definition of Anthropology may read thus, “Anthropology is the comparative study of cultural
and social life.
Its most important method is participant observation, which consist in lengthy fieldwork in a particular social
setting.

The discipline thus compare aspect of different societies, and continuously searches for interesting
dimension for comparison.
Further, the discipline emphasizes the importance of ethnographic fieldwork, which is a thorough close-up
study of a particular social and cultural environment, where the anthropologist need to establish rapport with
their host societies before they can extract the life stories of people

Anthropology has many features in common with other social sciences and humanities. Indeed, a
difficult question consist in deciding whether it is a science or one of the humanities

It has five primary subfields …PHYSICAL (looks into the biological development of human and their
contemporary variation), LINGUISTIC (examine the language of a group of people and its relation to their
culture), CULTURAL (Promote to study of a society’s culture through their belief system, practices, and
possessions) ,APPLIED (Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of theories and
approaches), and ARCHEOLOGY (Examines the remains of ancient and historical human population to
promote an understanding of how humans adopted to their environment and developed.)

ACTIVITY Card Do you have any idea of

who they are?
Yes

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 WHAT’S NEW?

Question Answer
I see evolution of humans.
What do you see in the picture? Describe
Which their appearance at first is
their appearance and expression.
similar to an animal.
In the photo, the structure of
their posture and
feature/appearance developed
What is happening in the photo?
and improved as a human but the
latter looks like his body and
health has been neglected.
 Evolved posture
List three things you might infer from this
 Facial feature develop
picture
 Skin color lighten
What questions does this photograph raise Do humans really looks like a
in your mind? monkey?
I could find the theory/answer in
Where could you find the answer to them? a trustworthy sources in social
media.

WHAT IS IT?
DISCUSSION OF ACTIVITY 1
Biological and cultural evolution are key concepts in the study of the origin of modern humans.

Biological evolution refer to the changes, modification, and variation in the genetics and inherited
traitsof biological populations from one generation to another. While cultural evolution refer to the changes or
the development in culture from a simple form to a more complex.

These two has something to do with Anthropology because Anthropologist study the equal but different
ways how people live in the world.

DEEPENING
How do museums serve as venues where we can
appreciate and understand our ancestor way of living before?

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 Museums serve as venues where we can appreciate and understand our ancestor's
way of living before in a way that it shows us artifacts that can prove on what kind of
life our ancestors have before. Artifacts such as clothes, look of their home,
footprints, and their things that can help us to understand more what kind of living
they have.

ENRICHMENT Card

GUIDED ACTIVITY 1
Read the statement below and identify if the statement is correct/ true or false. Draw a Heart
if the sentence is true and star if its not.

1. Anthropology as a science seeking to “ uncover principles of behavior that apply to all human
communities.”

2. Anthropology is the comparative study of cultural and social life

3. Anthropology is the study of individual and their through time in terms of inner characteristics,
environmental and social relations and culture

4. Anthropology has five primary subfields …physical, linguistic, cultural, applied, and
archaeology

5. Anthropology most important method is participant observation, which consist in lengthy

fieldwork in a particular social setting.

GUIDED ASSESSMENT 1
Make your prediction if the diversity has something to do with Anthropology.

Draw a if the statement is all about Anthropology and a check if its not.
Write the correct answer on the space provided before each number.

____1. Speech

____2. Clothing

____3. Religion

____4. Customs

____5. Body shapes and sizes

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 GUIDED ASSESSMENT 2 LET’S
Identify the following perspective if they are DO
Filipino Anthropological perspective.
THIS!
Put a check on the space provided before the number if the
statement is Filipino anthropological perspective.

___✓___1. Niceness and pleasantness of Filipino

___✓___2. Filial piety between parents and children.
___✓___3. Mode of dressing
___✓___4. Belief in Horoscope and fortune telling.
______5. Having an equal opportunity between elite class and the poor one.
___✓___6. Religion oriented
______7. Participating through national suffrage.
___✓___8. Community oriented rather than family oriented
______9. The flexibility to go along
___✓___10. The virtue of law abiding.

ASSESSMENT Card How about this one?

why don’t you try it!

Fill in the chat below to show a comparative study between Anthropology and Sociology.
Sociology Anthropology
Focuses on social processes
Recent social science
Understand way of life, society and culture
Complimented by anthropological research
Originated from western civilization(historical)
Method: particular sampling

Reflection Card

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?

Using your own words, write at least three to five sentence about what
you have learned on this module.

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 I’ve learned on this module that studies about culture and social life of humans is called
anthropology. And that anthropology doesn’t only study ancient's appearance but also on how they talk
and communicate to others. In this module, it made me realize that knowing our ancestor’s way of living
can help us to understand more what we have in life right now.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
POST-TEST

1.Came from two Greek words Anthropos (human) and Logos (study).
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology
2. Is the comparative study of cultural and social life.
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology
3. Examines the remains of ancient and historical human population to promote an understanding of
how humans adopted to their environment and developed.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
4. Promote to study of a society’s culture through their belief system, practices, and
possessions.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
5. Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of theories and approaches.
A. Applied Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
6. Looks into the biological development of human and their contemporary variation.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
7. Examine the language of a group of people and its relation to their culture.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
8. Anthropology has a four subdivisions…
A. True B. False
9. Important method in Anthropology is …
A. Sampling B. holistic
10. The study of human beings and their ancestors through time in terms of physical characteristics,
environmental and social relations and culture
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology

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Books
Development Team of the Module
Antonio P. Contreras, Phd. Et al. Understanding Culture Society And politics ( The padayon series)
Writers:house
Phoenix Publishing Emily E. Cunanan
Editor: Name
Reviewer: Name
Understanding Culture Society and Politics ,Name
Reader ( Department of Education)
Illustrator:
ANSWER KEY
Electronics
Layout Artist:
Management Team:
Name
SDS Zenia G. Mostoles, EdD, CESO V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBg3Ct8x9bo ASDS Leonardo C. Canlas, EdD, CESE
ASDS Rowena T. Quiambao, CESE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EqStqxCvfU
Pre-test Guided CID Chief,
Activity 1 Celia R. Lacanlale,
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