UCSP REVIEWER
Pakikisama
CULTURE
- A means of society used in
responding to nature. It defines a
human being endowed with his
inherit freedom and rationality.
(CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE)
Culture as Learned
- Mga natutunan natin sa isang bagay
Culture as Normative
- Simply meant to know the truth of
things
- Nakikita sa kahalagahan ng isang
bagay
Culture as Symbolic
- Based on symbols
- People learn their culture’s belief
and behavior through symbols
Culture is Cumulative
- Passed from one generation to next
generation
(CULTURE NORMS)
Giving us implicit and explicit guidance on
what to think and how to interact with
others.
Folkways
- Shared by a social a social group
(ginagawa ng bawat tao)
Mores
- Are moral norms. To figure out if
something is a more or not (ex.
Stealing, lying, bullying etc.)
Taboos
- Bawal sa isang lugar pero pwede sa
ibang bansa like same-sex marriage
Laws
- Enforced by police or government
law enforcement agencies.
(AMBIVALENCE OF FILIPINO VALUES)
- Covering up someone's wrong doing
Utang na loob
- Labag sa loob ang ginagawa
Hiya
- Becomes positive if a person is
ashamed of doing evil to others.
Pwede na!
- Hindi pagbigay ng best mo
Filipino Time
- Coming late to coming on time or
being punctual.
(CULTURE & LANGUAGE)
Language can either be depressed through
written or spoken forms. In either way,
language relays the same thing, that is one
thoughts, ideas or feelings.
Language as Rational
- Nagbibigay sa tao ng consiousness
Language as Acquired
- Kinakailangan sagutin ang
nakikipagusap sa atin
Language as Dynamic
- Expression natin na nakasanayan
Language as Social
- Isa kang ang nagsasalita at isa lang
ang nakikinig
Language as Relative
- Salitang hindi natin alam / ibat-ibang
language
(LANGUAGE AND ITS FUNCTION)
Language as Informative
- Nababasa sa pamamagitan ng
social net, nakakakuha ng info.
Language as Expressive
- Express feelings by face or attitude
Language as Directive
- Command or request
Language as Performative
- Perform what is being said or action
CULTURE SHOCK
Terms to express negative feelings from
other places or countries.

XENOPHOBIA
This is culturally based fear of outsiders. We - Had large and wider molars
call it as Dayo (for foreigners). - Capable of more powerful chewing

CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY HOMO HABILIS

Birth and current growth of technology in the
Philippines and elsewhere.

SOCIAL MEDIA
Digital technology has sired several
offspring in the form of what is today - first maker of stone tools.
phenomenal. - “handy man”
- one of the earliest members of the
genus Homo
HOMO HEIDELBERGENESIS
HOMO SAPIENS
- “Wise man”
- Present human race belongs to this
species.

- First to build simple shelters, HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS

evidence for this comes from the site
of Terra Amata.

HOMO FLORESIENSIS
- Haunted terrestrial and marine
(ocean) animals
- Its tools are exhibited in many
museums
- 3 ft. 6 inches tall
CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN
- Made and used stone tools and may
SOCIETY
have used fire.
● It is social system
- Tiny brains, large teeth, shrugged-
● A society is relatively large
forward shoulders, short legs.
● A society recruits most of its
members from within

● A society sustains itself across

HOMO RUDOLFENSIS
generations
 ● A society’s members share a culture
● A society occupies a territory
(TYPES OF SOCIETIES)
❖ Hunting and Food Gathering
Societies
= people survived by foraging for
vegetable foods and small gaming
fishes, hunting large animals.
❖ HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
= Involves only producing enough
food to feed the group
= Classified as subsistence farming
❖ PASTORAL SOCIETIES
= Relied on herding and
domestication of animals for food
and clothing to satisfy the greater
needs of the group
❖ AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
= Use of flow in farming
= Creation of the irrigation system
provided farming enough surplus for
the community
❖ INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
= It is characterized by more than
just the use of mechanical of
production
(POLITICS)
Activities associated with the governance of
a country
(EASTON 1953 & 1957)
The authoritative allocation of values for a
society and the study of politics
(LASSWELL 1936)
Described the study of politics as “who gets,
what, when, and how”
POLITICAL DYNASTIES
Families whose members are involved in
Politics.
PHILIPPINE LAWS
Shall guarantee equal access to
opportunities at public service
POLITICAL ALLIANCE
Cooperation between different political
parties
GOVERNANCE
Process of making decisions within an
organization.
(TYPES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION)
Band - very small group that is connected
by family ties.
Tribes - somewhat more complex than a
band.
Chiefdoms - less permanent full time
leaders to make major decisions for their
societies.
States - level political systems first
appeared in societies.
CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY
People follow this authority because they
believe in the leader
LEGITIMIZATION
To make something legal or acceptable

CHARISMATIC LEGITIMACY
Personal charisma of the leader and
dominates people of the society to
agreement

(FORMS OF LEGITIMATE
GOVERNMENT)
Communism - having won a civil war.
Constitutionalism - doctrine that a
government’s authority is determined by a
body of laws or constitution.
Democracy - system of government
through elective representatives.
Fascism - way of organizing a society in
which government ruled by a dictator
controls the lives of the people.
Monarchy - system of government in which
one person reigns, usually king or queen.