QUARTER 3

STA. ELENA (CAM.

NORTE)
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Understan
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Understanding Culture Society and Politics W - 2 teacher: Josua C. Andes, LPT
 ESSENTIAL
CONTENT
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Analyse the Concept, Aspects and Changes of Culture and

Society

What is the importance

of studying the nature
and goals of
anthropology,
sociology and political
science?

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INTRODUCTION
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WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

 Culture refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that shape
the way its members understand the world. It includes groups that we are born into,
such as race, national origin, gender, class, or religion. It can also include a group we
join or become part of.
 Culture is a strong part of people's lives. It influences their views, values, humor, hopes,
loyalties, worries and fears. It helps to have some perspective and understanding of
their cultures.
 Culture and society defined, culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other
characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society.
 Through culture, people and groups define themselves, conform to society's shared
values, and contribute to society.
 The major elements of culture are symbols, language, norms, values, and artifacts.

1. A symbol is anything that is used to stand for something else.

People who share a culture often attach a specific meaning to an object, gesture, sound, or
image. For example, a cross is a significant symbol to Christians. It is not simply two pieces of
wood attached to each other, nor is it just an old object of torture and execution. To Christians,
it represents the basis of their entire religion, and they have great reverence for the symbol.
2. Language is a system of words and symbols used to communicate with other people.
This includes full languages as we usually think of them, such as English, Spanish,
French, etc. but, it also includes body language, slang, and common phrases that are
unique to certain groups of people.
3. Systems of values are culturally defined standards for what is good or desirable.
Members of the culture use the shared system of values to decide what is good and
what is bad. Lanuza M. Gerry and Raymundo S. Sarah Understanding Culture, Society,
and Politics. 151 (2016).

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  Cultural artifact or artefact is a term used in the social sciences, particularly
anthropology, ethnology, and sociology for anything created by humans which gives
information about the culture of its creator and users.
 Artifacts are such valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to understand the
past.
 Human values are essential in our life because they help us to grow and develop. It is a
person's standards of behaviour, principles and own judgment. Some of the values,
human treasures are honesty, love, happiness, and integrity.
 Social and cultural norms are rules or expectations of behaviour and thoughts based on
shared beliefs within a specific cultural or social group.
 Social change - variations or modifications in the patterns of social organisation of sub
groups within society
 Cultural change - refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and
changes in a cultures content and structure.

Explain the Importance of Cultural Relativism in Attaining Cultural

Understanding.

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

 Cultural relativism is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make
judgments using the standards of one's own culture.
 The goal of this is to promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically
part of one's own culture.
 Cultural Relativism is important to anthropology and one of the things that makes
anthropology unique because it is a tool, a method for attempting to see things from a
multiplicity of viewpoints so as to better understand them.
 Cultural Relativism does not mean that anything a culture does is good or moral. This is
one of the ones that confuse people.
 Cultural relativism teaches us that, marriage patterns are cultural options, not objective
truth.
 Cultural Relativism doesn’t mean that cultures can’t be compared. There is sometimes a
strange notion that there are no commonalities between cultures.
 This is one of the reasons why those trained in cultural anthropology are often great
problem solvers for complex issues.
The importance of understanding cultural relativism is to know one's own culture.
Understanding this perspective of cultural relativism leads to the view that no culture is
superior to another culture and the idea that culture can be compared in terms of law, politics,
and systems has no bases at all. The concept that a person's beliefs, values, and practices
should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the
criteria of another.
Cultural relativism cannot be used to evaluate other cultures based on the ideas you
believe in. An example is a country that specializing dried fried crickets for food and you think it
is weird because it is not usual in your culture.

Cultural relativism is an idea, that cultures must be examined, based on their own

context and merits, not to be seen as customs and codes of other cultures. Cultural relativism
is important in studying minority cultures, colonized cultures, and other traditions which
belongs to another culture.

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 LEARNING
ASSESSMENT
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Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

1. It refers to all alterations affecting new traits or trait complexes and changes in a cultures
content and structure.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological change

2. It refers to valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to understand the past.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language

3. It is the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the
standards of one's own culture.
A. Sociological view B. Culture C. Cultural relativism D. Society

4. These are rules or expectations of behaviour and thoughts based on shared beliefs within a
specific cultural or social group.
A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language

5. Cultural relativism teaches us that, marriage patterns are__________, not objective truth.
A. Social option B. Political option C. Cultural option D. Socio-cultural option

6. It is a person's principles or standards of behaviour.

A. Values B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language

7. It refers to a group or community which shares common experiences that shape the way its
members understand the world.
A. Politics B. Society C. Political Science D. Culture

8. Refers to a system of words and symbols used to communicate with other people.
A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language

9. It is anything that is used to stand for something else.

A. Symbols B. Norms C. Artefacts D. Language

10. It is a variations or modifications in the patterns of social organisation of sub groups within
society.
A. Cultural change B. Social change C. Political change D. Sociological change

LEARNING APPLICATION
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Directions: Create a slogan on your personal opinion or insights on the concepts, aspects and
changes of culture and society. Illustrate your slogan in a ¼ size of illustration board with your
explanation.

LEARNING RUBRIC

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 21ST CENTURY LITERACY
INTEGRATION:

C1. CHARACTER
C2. CITIZENSHIP
REFERENCES : C3. COMMUNICATION
C4. CRITICAL THINKING
C5. COLLABORATION
Jorey L. Ludeña, Quarter 1- Module 2 C6. CREATIVITY

Analyze the Concept, Aspects and Changes in/of Culture and Society
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