GEN 002: Understanding The Self

Module #3 Student Activity Sheet

Lesson title: Self, from the Perspective of Materials:

Anthropology Student Activity Sheet

Lesson Objectives: At the end of the lesson, References:

students will be able to:
1. To know how culture shapes ourselves.
2. To describe how culture relates time and time
relates culture.
3. To design a diagram how your previous
characteristics, practices, and beliefs influence of
your personally at present.
https://sites.google.com/site/theorymaphelene/clifford-
geertz/impact-of-the-concept-of-culture-on-the-
concept-of-man
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-paul-
phd/loving-connection_b_2559654.html
https://nadinedib.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/does-
culture-shape-our-personal-identity/comment-page-1/

A. INTRODUCTION

Good day, students! It’s nice to be with you again for another inspiring topic that will trigger or exercise your mind
to think. Remember that thinking is growing, and growing is development.

In this module, we will be talking about the concepts of anthropology. This lesson will also tackle the study of culture
and how it shapes ourselves.

Activity 1: Lesson Review/Preview

Direction: Fill each blank with the correct answer. Write your answer on the blank provided.
_______________1. He argues that the self emerges from social interactions.
_______________2. He is the proponent of the theory Looking Glass Self.
_______________3. It develops self by allowing individuals to understand and adhere to the rules of the activity,
_______________4. It develops self by allowing individuals to respond to each other through symbols, gestures,
words, and sounds

Activity 2: What I Know Chart, part 1

Next up, let us check what you already know about the topic before reading the lesson.

Please answer the given questions in the second column of the table below. Write you answers in the first column
and leave the third column blank at this time.

What I Know Questions What I Learned (Activity 4)

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What do you understand about

anthropology?

What is the difference between

sociology and anthropology?

Who are the anthropologists you are

familiar with?

B. MAIN LESSON

Content Notes

You can make use of a highlighter to highlight important details in the text. This will help you study
effectively.

Anthropology is the scientific study of the origins of humans, how we have changed over the years, and how we
relate to each other, both within our own culture and with people from other cultures.

Anthropology is the study of what makes us human. Anthropologists take a broad approach to understanding the
many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. They consider the past, through archaeology,
to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them.

Anthropologists study the concept of culture and its relationship to human life in different times and places.
They study other societies to gain a clearer perspective on our own. They study the past to help interpret the
present. Students who major in anthropology are curious about other cultures and other times.

Such study allows us to better understand why people behave the way they do and how different groups have such
amazing variety in their lifeways. It allows us to learn about diversity and respect the adaptability of man to the
enormous variety of environments where people live.

In studying and interpreting the vast range of similarities and differences in human societies and
cultures, anthropologists also seek to understand how people themselves make sense of the world in which they
live. A concentration in Anthropology provides students with a broad introduction to the discipline.

Anthropologists have most frequently employed the term 'identity' (self) to refer to this idea of selfhood in a
loosely Eriksonian way (Erikson 1972) properties based on the uniqueness and individuality which makes a person

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distinct from others. Identity (self) refers to qualities of sameness in relation to a person's connection to others and
to a particular group of people.

When we are disconnected from ourselves — from who we really are and from our feelings — and when we are not
filling ourselves with love through our spiritual connection, we create a black hole within. The black hole we’ve
created through our self-abandonment becomes like a vacuum, trying to pull love from others.

Cultural anthropology brings us into contact with different ways of life and challenges our awareness of just how
arbitrary our own understanding of the world is as we learn how other people have developed satisfying but
different ways of living.

The Self embedded in Culture

Theorists of culture and personality school argued that socialization creates personality patterns. It shapes a
person’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms to fit into and function as productive members in
the surrounding human society. The study of culture and personality wanted to examine how different socialization
practices resulted in different personality types.

Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man

Basic Premises
1. marriage, economy, religion, etc.
2. what makes people/cultures different, not the same;
3. Culture is the "accumulated totality" of symbolic patterns that appear in different societies
4. what man is capable of and how he actually behaves, which in turn helps define human nature

Activity 3: Skill Building Activity

Directions: Choose two Basic Premises from the Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man. Explain
each premise in 3-5 sentences only.

1st Premise:
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2nd Premise:
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Activity 4.
Directions: Answer the question below in 3-5 sentences only and write your answer on the space provided. (10
points)

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“How is SELF shaped and influenced by culture?”

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Activity 5: What I Know Chart, part 2

Now, it’s time for you to go back in the What I Know Chart from the 1st activity for you to monitor how your
knowledge has changed by reviewing the questions in the second column and write your answers to the questions
based on what you know now in the third column of the chart.

Activity 6: Caselet
Direction: Read the situation very carefully and answer the question below. Your aim is solve the problem being
presented by applying the concepts or theories discussed above. Answers may vary.

Skill to develop: Creativity

You are a freshman college student. In your GEN002 class, your teacher asks you to get a piece of paper and create
a diagram of how you and your family’s traditions, beliefs, and ideals in your elementary years' influence of who
you are today. How will you present your diagram?

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Activity 8: Check for Understanding

You are doing well! Next, you need to answer the activity below. This will assess your learning about the lesson.
Write T if the answer is TRUE and F if its FALSE.
____ 1. Fiesta, music, dresses, hair style and dance are part of anthropology.
____ 2. Harana is singing of song to a girl whom your courting.
____ 3. Bayanihan is part of Indonesian culture
____4. Based on Anthropology study in the Philippines, Christianity came from Spaniard who
conquer us.
____5. Majority of our language came from Chinese words
____6. Cultural anthropology brings us into contact with different ways of life and
challenges our awareness of just how arbitrary our own understanding of the world is as
we learn how other people have developed satisfying but different ways of living
____7. Sociology is the study the past to help interpret the present.
____8. Anthropology is the scientific study of the origins of animals, how they have changed
over the years.
____9. Marriage, Economy, Religion, etc. are part of Anthropology
____10. Anthropology shapes a person’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms
to fit into and function as productive members in the surrounding human society.
 Check your answers with the Key to Corrections found in the last pages of this SAS

C. LESSON WRAP-UP

Congratulations for finishing this module! Shade the number of the module that you finished.
You are done with the session. Let us track your progress!
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Activity 6: Thinking about Learning

A). Learning Tracker
As part of the learning tracker, we prepared some questions to reflect on, please carefully read the question
below and give your honest answer.

What felt confusing about what you learned today?

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Did you have any challenges in today’s learning?

Job well done; you have reached the end of this module! We are looking forward to more meaningful learning with
you!

Frequently Asked Questions

Since we know you have questions about this lesson, we write 3 items and answer it on your behalf so it will
be clear to you. Please read the following questions and the corresponding answers to it.

1. Do all the things that happen to our life defines what kind of status and identity you have in the society?
Answer. Yes! Because anything that we accomplish, attain in life tells the community where you live and what kind
of person you are and where you belong. That’s why background investigation is always done and as bases for
assessment.

2. How is SELF shaped and influenced by culture?

Answer. Our parents and the environment handed it down to us, teaching us the right way to be accepted in the
community where we live. We do the same thing to the next generation.

3. Can traditions and culture change?

Ans. Yes.

KEY TO CORRECTIONS

Check your Understanding

1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. F
9. T
10. T

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