Ucsp LP Week A&b - December 6-9, 2021 & December 13-16, 2021

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LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Genesis Gamaliel R. Montecino

Subject : UCSP
Sections : ABM 11/STEM 12.1
References : UCSP MODULE/UCSP (FOR SENIOR HIGH) BY C&E PUBLISHING
Topic : Culture and Society: the Perspectives of Anthropology and Sociology II
No. of Sessions: 1 week
Date: Week A and B, December 6-9, 2021/December 13-16, 2021
I. Objectives : Prepared by:

Genesis Gamaliel R. Montecino, LPT
Social Sciences Teacher
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At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

A. Raise questions toward a holistic appreciation of cultures and societies
B. Respond critically to the questions that will be raised in the group activity
C. Increase awareness in culture and society
II. Explore
Activity: Freedom Wall
Students will be grouped and will write all their questions on manila paper.
Their questions will be posted on the screen.
III. Firm-up
Complexity is defined by its sources, its principles and its objective. This is what the newspaper Le
Monde(2003), wrote in a review of the book of the sociologist Reda Benkirane La Complexité,
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Vertiges et
Promesses: “This author presents here a series of interviews with scientists of various disciplines
Genesis Gamaliel R. Montecino, LPT – such as
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Prigogine, Varela, Morin, Steels, Kauffman – all utilizing the concept of complexity, this multidisciplinary idea
that refuses to parcel out fundamental problems”. This epistemological approach[2] that brings together
different disciplines, was already announced by Bachelard (1934, p. 11) in the Le Nouvel Esprit Scientifique.
He foresees an epistemology that will express the “character of a non-Cartesian epistemology”, which he
qualifies as being “the real innovation of the contemporary scientific spirit”. (2003), wrote in a review of the
book of the sociologist Réda Benkirane,
Culture is a complex process. This process does not go in good harmony with the traditional ways – based
on the Cartesian epistemology – of the management of organizations which simplifies too much to be
satisfying. What is the place of culture in the organization? Research on organizational culture showed the
necessity of taking into account cultural references when tackling management problems. Referring to
Thévenet (1999, p. 10), the culture assists the organization in dealing with management problems: “In all of
Prepared
our field studies, we never saw a firm interested in the culture itself, but focus on culture by: had the aim
always
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of solving actual problems, related to strategy, take-over, mobility of employees, re-organization, thus, to
communication. Culture is just a tool to better deal with these problems”.
But what does cultural complexity mean? According to Sackmann (1997, p. 2) the concept of cultural
complexity “encompasses both ideas: simultaneously existing multiple cultures that may contribute to a
homogenous, differentiated, and/or fragmented cultural context”. Hence, the cultural complexity perspective
suggests that culture in organizational settings is much more complex, pluralistic, diverse, contradictory, or
inherently “paradoxical” than it appears at first sight.
Many others also show the importance of the concept of culture in the organizations. In their critical review
of literature on organizational learning, Wang and Ahmed (2003, p. 11) noticed that “there is a strong
emphasis on the cultural perspective of the learning organization”. In addition, there is a need for a new
epistemology as was made clear bySøderberg and Holden (2002). They state that the Prepared by: organisation
learning
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“becomes the knowledge-creating organization, a new kind of communicating entity … that requires new
forms of intercultural communication know-how” and that “[t]he key engine of learning is the multicultural
team” (Søderberg and Holden, 2002, p. 110). Therefore we need to understand and use another
epistemology that “will allows for new concepts to describe and analyse the cultural complexity in different
business settings” (Søderberg and Holden, 2002, p. 112).
The problem of “culture” in (learning) organizations
In the world in general, one of the topics most often approached currently, is that of globalization. The
researchers of any discipline are brought to put questions such as that posed by Benkirane (2003, p. 216) to
Kauffman:
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This globalisation or universalization, can it be regarded as a holistic process[3], in other words like a
process which is truly universal, general, which takes into consideration the various dimensions – social,
cultural, ecological, and why not spiritual – of human societies?
In his answer, Kauffman believes that there will be a combination of globalization and decentralization. He
also foresees an increase in diversity: “we will invent diversity more quickly than we will make it
homogeneous” (Benkirane, 2003, p. 217).
IV. Deepen
Teacher will divide the class into 2 groups and will ask them to make the first group the inner circle and
the second group the outer circle. The teacher will choose questions from freedom wall whereas the
inner circle members will answer the questions and the outside circle members will functions as
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observers. After 10 minutes, the two groups will take role turns.
V. Transfer
What did you feel when you are able to raise all your questions with regards to our society and
culture.
Define the following:
1. Ethnocentrism
2. Cultural Relativism
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FOUNDATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Senior High School Department

Teacher: Genesis Gamaliel R. Montecino

I. Objectives : Prepared by:

At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

The problem of “culture” in (learning) organizations

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