Eugenio, Godfrey D.
12 - Feynman
SOCIETY (DAY 1)
CULTURE, SOCIETY AND
POLITICS
- Exist in the land of ideas and thoughts
- Can’t be seen or touch
- Influence the way we see and
experience social beings
- Have a hold on a phenomenon
- Allows us to form concepts, relate
them to other concepts, or replace
existing ones
SOCIAL BEINGS
- Categories we possess as individuals
- Eg: skin color, sex, economic status
- Assigned by the society
- Not natural; socially constructed
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS
“ANTHROPOLOGY HAS HUMANITY AS ITS
SUBJECT OF RESEARCH, BUT UNLIKE THE
OTHER HUMAN SCIENCE, IT TRIES TO GRASP
ITS OBJECT THROUGH ITS MOST DIVERSE
MANIFESTATIONS”
USCP ’23 – ‘24
IDENTITY
- Characteristics that define an
individual or shared by a group
VALUES
- Principle or standards of behavior
BELIEFS
- Something one accepts as true or real
- Held on opinion or conviction
CULTURE
- From the latin word “COLERE” –
means to cultivate
- Acquired cognitive symbolic aspect or
human existence
- SOCIETY – refers to social orgs. of
human life
- ASPECTS:
o It is learned – acquired by
being born into a particular
society
o Symbolic – renders meaning to
what people do
o Integrated – makes society
work
- Shared among domain of relations
ARISTOTLE
“A HUMAN BEING IS A POLITICAL ANIMAL ;
HE IS NOT HUMAN BUT A BEAST OR A GOD
IF HE CAN LIVE OUTSIDE THE STATE”
AFFAIRS OF THE STATE
- Michael Oakeshott
- Affairs which do not belong to the state
are not political
DAVID EASTON
“POLITICS AS THE AUTHORITATIVE
ALLOCATION OF VALUES IN THE SOCIETY”
To Easton, an allocation of values that is not
authoritative is not political and in society. It
is in the hands of the state that has the
authority to do such
ROBERT DAHL
“POLITICS ANY ACTIVITY INVOLVING HUMAN
BEINGS ASSOCIATED TOGETHER IN
RELATIONSHIP OF POWER AND AUTHORITY
WHERE CONFLICT OCCURS”
ETHNOCENTRISM
- apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a
frame of reference to judge other
cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs,
and people, instead of using the
standards of the particular culture
involved.
Eugenio, Godfrey D. 12 - Feynman USCP ’23 – ‘24

SCOPE OF SOCIETY (DAY 2) SOCIOLOGICAL

ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION APPROACHES
SOCIOLOGY AND - an ability to see the context which
shapes your individual decision STRUCTURAL – FUNCTIONAL
POLITICAL SCIENCE making, as well as the decisions made View society as a complex system whose
by others parts work together to promote solidarity
- enables to understand the larger and stability
ANTHROPOLOGY
historical scene in terms of its meaning
- Derived from Anthropos (Human) and
for the inner life and the external
Logos (Though or Reason)
career of a variety of individuals
Accdg. to Robert K. Merton
- enables us to grasp history and 1. MANIFEST FUNCTIONS
biography and the relations between Intended consequences of any social
David Emile Durkheim the two within the society pattern
- Father of all social and - C. Wright Mills
behavioral science
a) TROUBLES (Personal Challenges) 2. LATENT FUNCTIONS
o Occur within the character of the Unrecognized and unintended
SOCIOLOGY individual consequences of any social pattern
- Study of society, social institutions, and o within the range of his immediate
social relationships relations with others
o People have to do with themselves 3. SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION
- Describes and explains human
and with those limited areas of Social pattern that may disrupt the
behavior w/in a social context
social life of which they’re directly operation of society
and personally aware
SOCIAL CONFLICT
POLITICAL SCIENCE b) ISSUES (Larger Social Challenges) Sees society as an arena of inequality that
- associated with how power is gained o Have to do with matters that generates conflict and change
- allied with the GOV’T (ULTIMATE transcend these local
AUTHORITY) environments of the individual
and the range of his inner life SYMBOLIC-INTERACTION
- knowledge derived from experiment
and observation o They have to do with the Sees society as the product of the
organization of many such milieux everyday interactions of individual
overlap and interpenetrate to form
the larger structure of social and MACRO MICRO
historical life broad focus on social close-up focus on
o Poverty, Overpopulation, structures that shape social interaction in a
Unemployment society as a whole specific situation