UCSP-GR12-LAS-2-Week 3-4

George Denzel Rilloraza

HUMMS A

Activity 1. True or False

1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. False
10. True

Activity 2. Describing Cultural Characteristics

1. Culture is everything.
- Culture is who we are and how we influence the surroundings. By this everything
surrounds or event that we make is a culture of ours.
2. Culture is learned.
- Culture is learned by our ancestors that teach us on how we can pass the culture to
the next generation. Learned by different aspects and perspectives in values.
3. Culture is shared.
- Culture is shared by people who are not knowledgeable with the culture you have
grown with. It is also shared and converted with new people that you socialize with.
4. Culture affects biology.
- It affects the way of life of a certain person and in the medical industry. Every
culture has a different types on medication and other more.
5. Culture is adaptive.
- Can be adaptive when you are in a certain place and you are starting and adjusting
with the environment. Adjusting with the things you are accustomed to fit in the new
environment.
 6. Culture is maladaptive.
- Every culture adapts the modernization of the world. It adapts the new yet keeping
the meaning of culture.
7. Culture is dynamic.
- As the times goes by, it change the process by improving and keeping the spirit alive
in traditions. For example now we are in a pandemic we adjust traditions because of
the crisis.

Activity 3. Mind Challenge

Anthropological Perspectives Culture and Society
The Evolutionist-Intellectual It argues that evolutionary processes
have sculpted not merely the body, but also
the brain, the mechanisms it houses, and the
behavior it produces. He argues that many of
those mechanisms are best conceptualized as
psychological adaptations designed to solve
problems that historically contributed to
survival and reproduction.
The French –Sociology School The French School of Sociology was
formed during the last decade of the
nineteenth century and first quarter of the
twentieth century. The nucleus of the school
was created by Emile Durkheim (1858–1917),
to whose work was added L'Année
sociologies, founded in 1898.
The British Functionalist A culture is viewed as an interconnected
whole, rather than a collection of individual
qualities, according to functionalism. At the
same time, this functionalist approach was
chastised for failing to account traditional
societies' cultural shifts. Structural
functionalism was a branch of functionalism
that originated in the United Kingdom.

Sociological Perspectives
Symbolic Interactionism Symbolic interactionism is a sociological
perspective that focuses on how people
interact with one another face to face.
Interactionist believe that culture is generated
and sustained via people's interactions and
how they interpret each other's behaviors.
Functionalist According to the functionalist viewpoint,
society is a complex system whose
 components work together to generate
solidarity and stability. This method examines
society from a macro-level perspective,
focusing on the social institutions that shape
society as a whole.
Conflict Theory Any social occurrence is examined
through the perspective of conflict theory,
which claims that conflict is a basic human
impulse.

V. Reflection
 I have learned that culture is very important to us. It develop our point of view to
each and every culture and traditions that we see.
 I have learned that society is a gathering of people who have come together for
religious, charitable, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other reasons.
 I realized that the Anthropological and Sociological perspectives’ definitions of
culture and society are important to learn because we have to be knowledgeable
and give respect to one’s perspectives without judging and still understanding
them.
 Analyzing the different perspectives on culture and society will help to give
respect on someone’s beliefs and traditions without infer something.