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Understanding
Culture, Society and
Politics
Quarter 1 – Module 1
Social, Political and
Cultural Change

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics Grade 11
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Quarter 1 – Module 1: Social, Political, and Cultural Change
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Understanding Culture,
Society, and Politics
Quarter 1 – Module 1
Social, Political, and Cultural
Change

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 Table of Contents

COVER PAGE............................................................................................................i
COPYRIGHT PAGE...................................................................................................ii
TITLE PAGE............................................................................................................. iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................................................................ iv
WHAT THIS MODULE IS ABOUT ............................................................................v
WHAT I NEED TO KNOW ........................................................................................v
HOW TO LEARN FROM THIS MODULE..................................................................v
ICONS OF THIS MODULE ...................................................................................... vi
WHAT I KNOW ........................................................................................................ vii
Lesson 1: Social, Political, and Cultural Change
What’s In ............................................................................................1
What’s New: Draw Me.........................................................................................1
What Is It.................................................................................................................1
What’s More: .........................................................................................................3
What I Have Learned: Reflection of Learning...................................................3
What Can I Do: Create a Collage........................................................................4
Summary.................................................................................................................5
What I Know (Post-Test) ................................................................................ 6
Key to Answers................................................................................................... 8
References.............................................................................................................. 9

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What This Module is About
Have you ever wonder how powerful change is? In fact, there is no permanent
thing in this world except change. Indeed change is inevitable; you can’t escape from
it whether you like it or not. For the past 100 years in our history, changes were
made not only our physical landscape but as well as our social, political and cultural
aspect.
Now the question is, what can we do of these changes happening in our
society? How these changes made an impact on our lives and how we could stand
for it? These questions might help you to uncover the underlying scenario in our
society by studying this module.
Let the learning begin.

What I Need to Know

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

1. Analyze social, political, and cultural change (UCSP11/12SPUIb-3)

How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
1. Take your time to read and understand the concepts in this module.
2. Follow the instruction carefully in every given task.
3. Answers all the given test and exercise
4. Work on the activities in this module and every performance task given.
5. Take the Post-Test after you are done with all the lessons and activities in the
module
6. Familiarize yourself with the given terms.
7. Meet with your teacher. Ask him/her about any difficulty or confusion you have
encountered in this module.
8. Finally, prepare and gather all your outputs and submit them to your teacher.
9. Please write all your answers to the tests, activities, exercises, and others on
your separate activity notebook.

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 Icons of this Module

This part contains learning objectives that

What I Need to Know
are set for you to learn as you go along the
Learning Objectives
module.

This is an assessment as to your level of

What I Know? knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
Pre-Assessment meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge.

What’s In? This part connects previous lesson with

Review Activity that of the current one.

An introduction of the new lesson through

What’s New?
various activities, before it will be
Motivational Activity
presented to you.

These are discussions as a way to deepen

What Is It?
your discovery and understanding of the
Lesson Proper
concept.

These are follow-up activities that are

What’s More?
intended for you to practice further in order
Performance Task
to master the competencies.

What Have Learned? Activities designed to process what you

Generalization have learned from the lesson.

These are tasks that are designed to show

What Can I Do? case your skills and knowledge gained,
Application and applied to real-life concerns and
situations.

This evaluates your level of mastery in

Assessment
achieving the learning objectives of the
Post-Assessment
lesson.

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 What I Know
PRETEST

Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. It involves social, cultural, and political realities.

A. Social Science C. Political Science
B. Culture D. Society

2. The following are the common causes of social change as recognized by

social scientists, except
A. Genetics C. Environment
B. Population D. Technology

3. This concept denotes as changes in human interactions and relationships that

transform cultural and social institutions.
A. Political Change C. Social Change
B. Environmental Change D. Biodiversity Change

4. This a concept that denotes some internal and external factors leading to
change
in the cultural pattern of societies.
A. Political Change C. Social Change
B. Environmental Change D. Cultural Change

5. The following are examples of geographical factor of cultural change except.

A. Technological inventions C. Altitude of the place
B. Closeness to the sea D. Climate

6. The following are the latest inventions produced by technology that brought
changes to culture except.
A. Android Phones C. Humanoid robot
B. Drones D. Fax Machine

7. Which of the following is the basis of social life?

A. Technology C. Theory
B. Language D. Statistics

7. This term denotes as persistent social interaction sharing the same the
geographical or territory with the same political, authority, and cultural
expectations.
A. Society C. Culture
B. politics D. Community

9. The following are the main factors of cultural change, except.

A. Technology innovation C. Geographical factor

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 B. Contact D. Heredity

10. This is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of
people to another
A. Enculturation C. Cultural Diffusion
B. Political Diversion D. Acculturation

11. Which of the following reasons why there is a political change?

A. Rulers will be voted out, retire, or die while in power
B. the type of governance in the country changes.
C. social or economic issues
D. All of the above

12. The following are the type of governance except

A. Monarchy C. Oligarchy
B. Democracy D. Monopoly

13. Is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another.
A. Enculturation C. Cultural Relativism
B. Acculturation D. Ethnocentrism

14. The internal political change is initiated by citizens of the country, except?
A. Through military threats through embargoes and withholding foreign aid
B. It can be done through elections
C. rulers choosing to hand power over
D. events, such as a coup d’état or a rebellion

15. Cultural change can also occur except

A. invention and discovery
B. Cultural diffusion
C. Technology innovation
D. Preservation of cultural heritage

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 Module Social, Political and
Cultural Change
1 (UCSP11/12SPUIb-3)

What’s In
People differ from each other, despite from the emergence of the idea of one
global society. These variations of differences includes cultural diversity, social
difference, and political identities. This time, we will analyze some of the social,
political and cultural change that is happening in our society today.

What’s New

Instruction: Draw 1 thing or place that from the past and how it look like now at
present and explain it briefly.

Before After

What Is It
Changes in our society are evident today. The way our ancestors lived in the
past was too way different from our ways in the present. The rise of science through
innovation, invention and new discovery brought so much change to how people live
their lives today. Social science in its broadest sense, study the society and the
manner in which people behave and influence the world around us. That is how

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people interact with each other, behave, develop as a culture, and influence the
world.

SOCIAL CHANGE denotes to any substantial transformation of behavioral

patterns, values and social norms over time. There are several and wide-ranging
causes of social change. The common causes of social change as acknowledged by
social scientists includes; technology, population, and environment.
1. Technology – Nowadays, technologies are very beneficial to human being
and it shaped changes in our lives today. Gearing towards 21st century,
numerous innovations were made. Examples for technology inventions are
advances in the field of communication, transportation, devices, appliances,
infrastructures and agricultural technology. Indeed, we cannot deny the fact
that technology has impacted all aspects of modern life.
2. Population – The composition of population is changing at every level of
society over time and space. The births increase and decrease contributes to
how society changes. The population trends have an incredible
interconnected impact on all aspects of society around the world.
3. Environment - The natural disasters is considered one that contributes social
change. It changes the physical, social, and economic landscape of humanity.
As human populations expand its territories to move into more vulnerable
areas, we see a surge number of people affected by natural catastrophes.

POLITICAL CHANGE Happens when the rulers in a nation lose power or the
kind of governance in the nation. Governance is the type of framework used to run a
nation. Example of the kinds of governance is democracy and monarchy. There are
two manners by which political change may happen: inside or remotely.
Internal political change this is instigated by people of the country. It can be
done through significant events, such as elections and rulers opt to end his power
over, or through irregular events, such as a coup d’état or a rebellion.
External political change is instigated or imposed by other countries. It is
usually accomplished through military threats or extortions but could occur through
embargoes and/or withholding foreign aid. If it is successfully accomplished by the
military, then a new leader will be positioned in charge by the triumphant attempt to
impose foreign power.

CULTURAL CHANGE this idea denotes that some internal and external
factors influence the cultural pattern of societies leading to change.
There are three main factors of cultural change:
A. Contact - The exchange of ideas between two societies will evidently change
the culture of both societies. This is done through the process called “cultural
diffusion” and “acculturation” Cultural diffusion is the transfer of cultural
practices, beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another
while acculturation is the process of barrowing social patterns of values, and
customs from one group to another.
B. Technology Evolution – The emergence of technological evolution will bring
change of culture of one’s country. Example for the latest inventions created

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 by technology, is our means of communication, transportation, devices and
many more that are very noticeable in our society
C. Geographical and ecological factor - The type of climate, altitude of the
place, and its geographical location contributes the type ifestyle and culture of
the people. Any changes in the physical landscapes will automatically affect
the way of living, habits, and practices that lead to a change of one’s culture.

What’s More

Direction: Fill in the box below by identifying at least 5 social, cultural, and political
changes in our country for the past 100 years.

Social Cultural Political

What have I learn

Direction: In writing your reflection, you have to complete the sentence below.

I learned that________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

I realized that________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

If given a chance_____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

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 What Can I do

Direction: Using various materials like pictures in magazines, newspaper and

brochures. Create a collage that reflects the concepts of social, political and cultural
changes in our society today. Put it in a bondpaper.
Rubric for Collage

CATEGORY 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 points

Creativity All of the graphics Most of the graphics Only a few graphics None of the graphics
or objects used in or objects used in or objects reflect or objects reflects
the collage reflect a the collage reflect student creativity, student creativity.
degree of student student creativity in but the ideas were
creativity in their their display. typical rather than
display. creative.
Design Graphics are cut to 1-2 graphics are 3-4 graphics are Graphics are not an
an appropriate lacking in design or lacking in design or appropriate size
size, shape and placement. There placement. Too shape. Glue marks
are arranged may be a few much background is evident. Most of the
neatly. Care has smudges or glue showing. There are background is
been taken to marks. noticeable smudges showing. It appears
balance the or glue marks. little attention was
pictures across the given to designing
area. Items are the collage.
glued neatly and
securely.
Number of The collage The collage includes The collage The collage contains
Items includes 10 or 7 different items. includes 5 different fewer than 5 different
more items, each items. items.
different.
Time and Effort Much time and Class time was Class time was not Class time was not
effort went into the used wisely. always used wisely, used wisely and the
planning and Student could have but student did do student put in no
design of the put in more time and some additional additional effort.
collage.. effort at home. work at home.

Title and The title is catchy A title is provided Title and No title or
Explanation and creative and that relates to the explanation are explanation!
related to the collage. The incomplete and
{ON BACK OF collage. The explanation partially relate to the
COLLAGE} explanation describes the collage.
provides insight to purpose and
the process of creating
purpose/meaning the collage.
and design of the
collage; 1
paragraph or more.

https://www.crsd.org/cms/lib/PA01000188/Centricity/Domain/2269/SelfEsteem%20Collage%20and
%20Rubric%202012.doc.

Summary

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SOCIAL CHANGE refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior
patterns and cultural values and norms.
The common causes of social change
 Technology - We cannot deny the fact that technology has
impacted all aspects of modern life.
 Population – Population composition is changing at every
level of society.
 The Environment - The natural disasters is considered one
that contributes social change.

POLITICAL CHANGE occurs when the rulers in a country lose power or

the type of governance in the country changes. Governance is the type of
system used to rule a country.

CULTURAL CHANGE is a concept that denotes some internal and

external factors leading to change in the cultural pattern of societies.
There are three main factors of cultural change:
 Contact - The contact between two societies will obviously
change the culture of both the societies through the process
of “cultural diffusion” and “acculturation”
 Technology Evolution - Any technological evolution in the
country will bring a change in their culture.
 The geographical and ecological factor - The climate or
rainfall, attitude of the place, closeness to the sea decides the
culture and lifestyle of the people.

What I Know

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POST-TEST

Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. This concept denotes as changes in human interactions and relationships that

transform cultural and social institutions.
A. Political Change C. Social Change
B. Environmental Change D. Biodiversity Change

2. It involves social, cultural and political realities.

A. Social Science C. Political Science
B. Culture D. Society

3. The internal political change is initiated by citizens of the country, except?

A. Through military threats through embargoes and/or withholding foreign aid
B. It can be done through elections
C. rulers choosing to hand power over
events, such as a coup d’état or a rebellion

4. The following are the common causes of social change as recognized by

social scientists, except
A. Genetics C. Environment
B. Population D. Technology

5. This a concept that denotes some internal and external factors leading to
change
in the cultural pattern of societies.
A. Political Change C. Social Change
B. Environmental Change D. Cultural Change

6. The following are the main factors of cultural change, except.

A. Technology innovation C. Geographical factor
B. Contact D. Heredity

7. The following are examples of geographical factor of cultural change except.

A. Technological inventions C. Altitude of the place
B. Closeness to the sea D. Climate

8. Which of the following is the basis of social life?

A. Technology C. Theory
B. Language D. Statistics

9. This is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of
people to another
A. Enculturation C. Cultural Diffusion
B. Political Diversion D. Acculturation
10. Which of the following reasons why there is political change?
A. Rulers will be voted out, retire, or die while in power

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 B. the type of governance in the country changes.
C. social or economic issues
D. All of the above

11. Is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another.
A. Enculturation C. Cultural Relativism
B. Acculturation D. Ethnocentrism

12. The following are the latest inventions produced by technology that brought
changes to culture except.
A. Android Phones C. Humanoid robot
B. Drones D. Fax Machine

13. Cultural change can also occur except

A. invention and discovery
B. Cultural diffusion
C. Technology innovation
D. Preservation of cultural heritage

14. The following are the type of governance except

A. Monarchy C. Oligarchy
B. Democracy D. Monopoly

15. This term denotes as persistent social interaction sharing the same
geographical
or social territory with the same political, authority and cultural expectations.
A. Society C. Culture
B. politics D. Community

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