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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics (COR14)
S.Y. 2020 – 2021

PART I: Definition of terms

A. The Holistic Study of Humanity: Anthropology

Anthropology:
1. It is the study of human's culture from the past and up to the present. It studies on how people live on the society,
their ways of living.

Contributions in Anthropology

2.Franz Boaz His primary contribution to anthropology was his theory of cultural
relativism. The prevailing idea in the West at the time was that Western
culture was superior to other cultures.

3.Alfred Kroeber He contributed to anthropology by making connections between

archaeology and culture. He conducted excavations in New Mexico,
Mexico, and Peru.

4.William Henry Morgan He established the study of kinship systems and for his comprehensive
theory of social evolution.

5.Ruth Benedict Best known for her “patterns of culture” theory. Her book by that name
revolutionized anthropological study, igniting the work of the culture
and personality movement within anthropology.

6.Bronislaw Malinowski Malinowski on Functionalism. Malinowski in the study of culture acted

as an originator of a functionalist approach. The function is the key idea
throughout his work from his initial insightful research on an Australian
native family to his final theoretical statement in a scientific theory of
culture.

B. The Study of the Social World: Sociology

Sociology:
7. Sociology came from the Greek word "Socio" means "people together" and "logos" means study.
It studies the people's behavior in groups rather than individuals.

Contributions in Sociology
8.C.Wright Mills Studied the power structure within the United States.Mills coined the term
sociological imagination, which means awareness between one's self and the
broader social world around them.

9.Peter Berger Made major contributions to the field known as sociology of knowledge, which
studies the ways in which society shapes human thought.

10.Emile Durkheim Emile Durkheim was a well-known sociologist famous for his views on the structure
of society. His work focused on how traditional and modern societies evolved and
function. Durkheim's theories were founded on the concept of social facts, defined
as the norms, values, and structures of society.

History of Sociology as Science

Sociology emerged with the two of the most significant social and political revolution in the history. The French
Revolution of 1789, along with the Industrial Revolution in England during the 18th century, tremendously changed
people’s lives.

Early Thinkers

Contributions in Sociology
11.August Comte (1798-1857) Comte identified three basic methods for discovering these invariant
laws, observation, experimentation, and comparison.

12.Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) The first to translate August Comte's work from French to English. It is
through this translation that English-speaking scholars could begin to
learn the works of Comte, who is known as the father of sociology.

13.Karl Marx (1818-1883) Known for his theory of historical materialism, which focuses on the
way social order, like class structure and hierarchy, emerges out of the
economic system of a society.

14.Emile Durkheim (1864-1920) Emile Durkheim was a well-known sociologist famous for his views on
the structure of society. His work focused on how traditional and
modern societies evolved and function. Durkheim's theories were
founded on the concept of social facts, defined as the norms, values,
 and structures of society.

15.Max Weber (1864-1920) Best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating
Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy.

C. The Study of Politics: Political Science

Political Science
16. Studies the government,power and politics. It also studies the political institutions, or of the principles,
organization, and methods of government,structure of government.

Politics
17. Politics is the way that people living in groups make decisions. Politics is about making agreements between
people so that they can live together in groups such as tribes, cities, or countries. These people are called politicians.
Politicians, and sometimes other people, may get together to form a government.

Politics as science
18. Science and politics are plainly related: science is the pursuit of knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is
politics.
The scientific method consists of generating a hypothesis, attempting to disprove the hypothesis through testing, and
accumulating those tests to come up with shared knowledge. And that method also contains ideology: our observed,
shared world is the real world. This ideology even has a name: empiricism. An incoming president who clearly picks
and chooses facts to suit his own version of the world changes the relationship between science and culture, in
potentially destructive ways.

19-20. In your own words differentiate Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science.

Anthropology is the study of human's

culture from the past and up to the present. Sociology is the study of human's behavior
in the society or community.
Anthropologist study how people live through
their culture.
 Sociology
Anthropology

The study of government and power.

Studies the institutions and process of principle.

Political Science