Teacher: Mr. Camlon F.

Khajar
School: Fatima National High School - SHS Department
Subject: Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Grade & Section: Grade 11- HUMSS-A
Date: April 20, 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 9: 30-11:30 A. M.

A Detailed Lesson Plan Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

(Second Quarter of School Year (2021-2022)

I. Objectives:

• The learner will be able to define Cultural Relativism in the

Perspective of Sociology.
• The learner states the importance of Cultural Relativism in attaining
cultural understanding.
II. Subject Matter
a. Topic: Cultural Relativism in the Perspective of Sociology
b. References
UCSP – 11 Self-Learning Module (SLM)
Quarter 1 – Module 3: Cultural Relativism
First Edition, 2020
c. Materials
Laptop
PowerPoint Presentation
Webcam
Headset
d. Learning Competencies
a. Content Standard
perspectives in/approaches to the study of culture and society (i.e., comparative,
historical, structural functional, interpretive, critical)
b. Performance Standard
demonstrate a holistic understanding of culture and society
c. MELCS
*Explain the importance of cultural relativism in attaining cultural
understanding

III. Cultural Relativism in the Perspective of Sociology

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity
A. Preliminary Activities Yes Sir, let us pray. (All students will
(5 Minutes) stand and pray.)
1.Prayer
Please all stand, let’s begin this day by a
short prayer. ____________, can you please
lead the prayer?
2. Greetings Good morning Sir! Good morning
Good Morning Humss – A classmates!

3. Checking of Environment (All students will pick up all the needed

Before you sit down, please check your materials like SLMs and activity notes.)
surrounding where you feel comfortable and
far from noise and to avoid disturbances.
Mute your microphone when someone is
speaking, Listen attentively.
Lastly, keep all the things not related to our
subject.

4. Checking of Attendance
Look at your classmates in the loop.

Is anybody absent today? No one is absent Sir.

Good to hear! Let’s do the GOOD JOB! (Students will do the said Clap.)
Clap!

B. Motivation
(10 minutes)

Before we start our lesson let us first take

a look and identify the following pictures.
Look at the Power point Presentation.

Are you ready?

Yes, Sir.
1. What is in the first picture? What is it
all about?

Sir, the picture shows a different outfit

Yes, Ms. _________.
Ok, good observation and interpretation! Let clothing as far as practices is concerned.
us see, for the 2nd picture.
compared to the other woman in the side.
In my own opinion, it is pertaining to
different aspects in wearing a prescribed
Sir, the number 2 picture is/are trying to
introduce a food which the other guy
refuses the offered foods. I think it is
related with the first picture. We cannot
force someone to taste or eat the food what
we used to consume in our daily lives. I
believe this is associated with one’s
culture.

Yes, Mr. _______.

Another good idea! How about the 3rd
Picture.

Yes, Sir, I think that picture shows

Ms. __________. Can you please share to us relationships on people with relative
your insight? cultures among others. It is clear with my
understanding what the picture depicts
incorporated ideas in one’s culture in
which a group of people in our society
nowadays has unique cultures which
Wow! A very good and meaningful answer. I made them unique and has their own
am impressed with the ideas you have in identity on their own. These words are
your mind. And for the last picture? related to cultural diversity.

Yes, you can! Sir, can I answer for the last picture?

Very good answers!

We will proceed.

From those pictures that you saw, what do

you think will be our topic for today?

Anyone?
I think Sir, the picture portrays and
showcasing their unique cultures which
our topic for today’s discussion will
revolve in cultural differences as far as the
picture trying to convey.

Sir, I think our topic will be about

Yes, Mr. ________________. Very Good! You “Cultural Relativism”
guessed it well.
 C. Presentation At the end of the lesson, the students are
(5 Minutes) expected to:
1. The learner will be able to define
But before we proceed to our lesson, I have Cultural Relativism in the
here two (2) objectives expected of you to Perspective of Sociology.
accomplish at the end of the lesson. Class 2. The learner states the importance of
please read the objectives Cultural Relativism in attaining
cultural understanding
Thank you! We will proceed.

D. Discussion
(30 Minutes)

A while ago, you mentioned about

“Cultural Relativism”. That is correct that is
included in the discussion today.
(The student will read the meaning of
What is Cultural Relativism? Cultural Relativism)

According to Khan Academy (2020), cultural

relativism refers to not
judging a culture to our own standards of
what is right or wrong, strange or normal.
Instead, we should try to understand the
cultural practices of other groups in their
own cultural context.

Please read the meaning and give some I think Sir, some of the examples of that
example. Ms. ______. being shown earlier in the picture is that.
in the Philippines, instead of thinking,
“Fried grasshoppers (tipaklong) are
Correct! disgusting!” one should instead ask, “Why
Another example? do some cultures eat fried insects?” You
Mr. ___________. may learn that fried grasshoppers are full
of protein.
Good!

In addition, cultural relativism wrongly .

claims that each culture has its own
distinct but equally valid mode of
perception, thought, and choice. Cultural Everybody will read the examples
relativism, the opposite of the idea that
moral truth is universal and
objective contends there is no such thing as
absolute right and wrong.
There is only right and wrong as specified
by the moral code of each society. Within a
society, a standard of right and wrong can
be violated. Cultural relativism maintains
that man’s opinion within a given culture
defines what is right and wrong.
The English term “relativism” came into
usage only in the 19th
Century. John Grote was probably the first
to employ it when in Exploration
Philosophica (1865) he wrote: The notion of
the mask over the face of nature is…. what All students will read the meaning of
I have Relativism: A Brief History of an Old
called “relativism”. If “the face of nature” is Idea.
reality, then the mask over it, which is what
theory gives us, is so much deception, and
that is what relativism really comes to.
(Grote1865: I.xi, 229).
Its German counterpart, “Relativismus”,
has a longer history. Wilhelm Traugott
Krug, who succeeded Kant in the University
of Königsberg in his philosophical lexicon,
defines it as: “the assumption that
everything which we experience and think
(the self, the idea of reason, truth, morality,
religion etc.) is only something relative, and
therefore has no essential endurance and
no universal validity. (Krug 2010 [1838]:
224)” Although the term “relativism” is of
recent coinage, doctrines and positions,
with some of the hallmarks of contemporary
relativism, date back to the very beginnings
of Western philosophy. Protagoras of Abdera
(c. 490–420 BC) is often considered the first
overt champion of relativism, and his
dictum: “Man (anthrôpos) is the measure
(metron) of all things (chrêmatôn), of the
things which are, that they are, and of the
things which are not, that they are not (tôn
men ontôn hôs esti, tôn de mê ontôn hôs
ouk estin) (from Plato’s Theaetetus
152a 2– 4)”
its first battle-cry. According to Plato,
Protagoras thought: “Each thing appears
(phainesthai) to me, so it is for me, and as
it appears to you, so it is for you—you and I
each being a man. (Theaetetus 152a 6–8)”
(Students will hit raise hand button to
share their thoughts.)
Here are the common examples of
Yes, Mr. _________. Sir, this is one of Examples of Cultural
(LOCALIZATION will be emphasized) Relativism
1. Here in the Philippines, premarital sex
is morally unacceptable. If you go to
another country, teenagers want to
lose their virginity at a young age.
Another example Ms.__________ 2. Here in the Philippines, we do not cease
to debate on the moral
acceptability of contraceptives. In
another country, abortion is
perfectly
normal, more so the use of artificial

We have bright Ideas from Ms.___________
That’s a very good answer! Your answer is
correct.
contraceptives.
3. One society makes any prohibitions on
women; while another society
allows women to have equal opportunities
and obligations as men.

None Sir.

Thank you for your answer.

Do you have example on your mind?

Right! Good to know that you are aware

of the different cultures practiced by other
groups of people. you have here in school for
you to be an openminded persons and
practice cultural toleration.

Good Job!

Have you ever wondered what society was

like before your lifetime? Maybe
you wonder in what ways has society
transformed in the past few centuries?
Human beings have created and lived in
several types of societies
throughout history. In this activity, you are
going to cite the practices of the
different societies in social, cultural,
economic and political.

A. Generalization

(5 Minutes)

There are two lessons First, Cultural

Relativism warns us, quite rightly,
about the danger of if all of our practices are
based on some absolute rational standard.
They are not. Some of our customs are
merely conventional—merely peculiar to our
society—and it is easy to lose sight of that
fact.

Cultural Relativism begins with the insight

that many of our practices are like this—
they are only cultural products. Then it goes
wrong by inferring that, because some
practices are like this, all of them must be.
The second lesson has to do with keeping an
open mind. As we grow up, we develop
strong feelings about things: We learn to see
some types of
behavior as acceptable, and other types as
outrageous. Occasionally, we may
find those feelings challenged. For example,
we may have been taught that
homosexuality is immoral, and we may feel
uncomfortable around gay people.
But then someone suggests that this may be
prejudice; that there is nothing
wrong with being gay; and that gay people
are just people, like anyone else,
who happen to be attracted to members of
the same sex. Because we feel so
strongly about this, we may find it hard to
take this line of reasoning seriously.
Realizing this can help broaden our minds.
We can see that our feelings
are not necessarily perceptions of the
truth— they may be due to cultural
conditioning and nothing more.
Thus, when we hear it suggested that some
element of our social code is not really the
We can understand
the appeal of Cultural Relativism, then,
despite its shortcomings. It is an
attractive theory because it is based on a
genuine insight:

B. Application The students will get their notebook and

(25 Minutes) start thinking about the topic. And write
Individual Activity Please get your expressively.
activity notebook and do the activity.
Activity No. 1: “Think-Share-Pair”
Instruction: Think of certain actions (e.g.
programs/activities/traditions, and social
gathering) that are being practiced in your
community. Use the recommended
template.

Processing Questions:
1. Based on the actions that you have
noted in the template, did you find
similarity or difference between the actions
you had observed in your
own community and the actions you had
seen in other community?
2. Would you consider these actions in
your community are far better
that those in other communities? Why?
Take note of your answers.

IV- Evaluation
(5 minutes)

Direction: Read the statements below. Write

the word TRUE if the
statement is true and FALSE if the
statement incorrect. (I have provided you
the link to answer the questions trough
google forms)
___1. Cultural relativism is not really a vital Students will be clicking the link provided
tool in anthropology.
___2. Behavior cannot be compared to the https://forms.gle/BbSL7jy4UKpiK3rq7
culture and environment,
showing how mores and taboos came to be
without judging those ethics.
___3. According to Plato, man is the
measure of all things of the things
which are, that they are, and of the things
which are not, that they are not.
___4. The concept of cultural relativism as
we know and use it today was
established as an analytic tool by German-
American anthropologist Franz
Boas in the early 20th century.
___5. Cultural Relativism warns us, quite
rightly, about the danger of
assuming that all of our practices are based
on some absolute rational
standard.
___6. Cultural Relativism begins with the
insight that many of our practices
are like this—they are only cultural
products.
___7. Cultural relativism wrongly claims
that each culture has its own
distinct but equally valid mode of
perception, thought, and choice.
___8. There is sometimes a strange notion
that there are no commonalities
between cultures.
___9. The English term “relativism” came
into usage only in the 18th Century.
___10. Cultural relativism, the opposite of
the idea that moral truth is
universal and objective, contends there is
no such thing as absolute right
and wrong.

V- Assignment
(5 Minutes)

Please get your notebook and copy the

assignment.

All students will get their notebook to copy

the homework.

“CURRENT REALITY DIALOGUE”

Instruction: Create 2 columns. Label the
first column as CULTURAL RELATIVISM;
the second column as REMARKS. Think of
cultural practices in your own
locality/community that shows CULTURAL
RELATIVISM. In the second column
marked as REMARKS, write whether that
cultural practice is being performed
ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, RARELY or NEVER.

Yes, Sir.

Goodbye Sir.

Are you done copying the assignment? Thank you for teaching us. See you
tomorrow!
That’s all for today.

Don’t forget to study your assignment. Ok.

Goodbye HUMSS-A.

Prepared by:

CAMLON F. KHAJAR
SHS-Teacher Applicant