School Grade 11/12

Teacher Subject Understanding

Culture, Society
and Politics
Lesson Day/Date Week 3 – Days 1 & Quarter 1st Quarter
Plan 2
The learners demonstrate an understanding of:
A. CONTENT perspectives in/approaches to the study of culture and
STANDARD society (i.e., comparative, historical, structural,
functional, interpretive, critical)
The learners:
B. PERFORMANCE
value cultural heritage and express pride of place without
STANDARD
being ethnocentric.
The learners:
C. LEARNING
become aware of why and how cultural relativism
COMPETENCIES
mitigates ethnocentrism.
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

a) define cultural relativism;

I. OBJECTIVES b) appreciate that cultural relativism is important in
attaining cultural understanding; and,
c) compose a spoken poetry in their understanding
of cultural relativism.

Defining Culture and Society from the perspectives of

Anthropology and Sociology
TOPIC
Topic 3: Explain the Importance of Cultural
Relativism in Attaining Cultural Understanding.

III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
1. Curriculum Curriculum guide pages 2
Guide Pages
2. Textbook
pages
3. Additional Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Resources Quarter 1 – Module 2 and 3: Culture and Society as
Anthropological and Sociological Concepts

4. Other Laptop, Projector/TV

Learning
Resources
IV. PROCEDURE
A. Reviewing Activity 1: Complete Me!
previous lesson or
presenting new
lesson through
motivation

B. Establishing the In the last lesson, you studied the connection of

purpose of the anthropology to culture and analyze the concept, aspects
lesson and changes of culture and society.
This new lesson will give you the discussion about the
importance of cultural relativism in attaining cultural
understanding. Upon finishing this lesson, you are
expected to define cultural relativism, and explain the
importance of cultural relativism in attaining cultural
understanding.
C. Presenting Activity 2: My scenes
examples of the Show the following scenarios/practices to the class.
new lesson Let the students react and comment on each scenario.

1. Attending Holy Mass in another place wearing jeans

and not knowing that there is a “NO JEANS in Church”
Policy
2.You are in a country where eating fried crickets and
frogs is as normal as eating fish and meat
3. Learning about the practice of Female Genital
Mutilation in some countries in Africa
D. Discussing new The teacher will have the students read every slide
concepts and presented through PowerPoint. (PROPEL)
practicing new
skills #1 Teachers Input:
Was it hard to complete the diagram? To give you an
idea of what it is, read and understand the following
concepts:
❖ Cultural relativism is the ability to understand a
culture on its own terms and not to make judgments
using the standards of one's own culture.
❖ Its goal is to promote understanding of cultural
practices that is not typically part of one's own culture.
❖ Cultural Relativism is important to anthropology and
one of the things that makes anthropology unique is
because it is a tool, a method for attempting to see things
from a multiplicity of viewpoints so as to better
understand them.
❖ Cultural relativism teaches us that, marriage patterns
are cultural options, not objective truth.
❖ Cultural Relativism doesn’t mean that cultures can’t be
compared. There is sometimes a strange notion that there
are no commonalities between cultures.
❖ This is one of the reasons why those trained in cultural
anthropology are often great problem solvers for complex
issues.

Further discussion and clarification of the concepts

and siting of examples:

Relativism vs Hot topics

Universalism

Cultural relativism is a philosophical approach to

cultural differences that tries not to judge other cultures
based upon your own culture’s values. Instead, people
are expected to suspend moral judgment of other
cultures’ beliefs and practices.

Source: https://helpfulprofessor.com/cultural-
 relativism-examples/

Students Input: (1st day)

Group work: What is the most unimaginable
practice/s or culture that you can hardly accept if it
happens to you?

1.Students will be grouped into 5 and will be given 3

minutes to prepare their answer and probable answers to
questions.
2. To follow are the presentation and Q and A portion of
their outputs.

Rubrics:
Categories Points
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding 10
on the topic
Cleanliness is clear and visible 5
Organization and members participation 5

TOTAL 20
E. Discussing new Directions: Create a table that shows a summary of what
concepts and you have learned from the discussion above. Write your
practicing new answers in a separate sheet of paper.
skills #2

F. Developing
mastery (Leads to
Formative
Assessment)

Guide questions:
1. What can you say about the picture?
2. How do the given words from the picture help you
conceptualize the importance of cultural relativism in
attaining cultural understanding?
 Group Act:
Compose a spoken poetry explaining the importance
of cultural relativism in attaining cultural understanding
based from what you have learned.

Rubrics:
Categories Points
Demonstrate a best knowledge and 20
understanding about the topic. The application
G. Finding of art is highly observed.
practical Demonstrate a better knowledge and 16
applications of understanding about the topic. The application
concepts and skills of art is observed
in daily living Demonstrate a good knowledge and 12
understanding about the topic. The application
of art is observed
Demonstrate the slight knowledge and 8
understanding about the topic. The application
of art is slightly observed.
No work submitted. 0
Note: The teacher has the option to change the
activities if it is unattainable by certain groups of
students.
H. Making Exit Ticket:
generalizations
about the lesson In one statement, what does studying society teaches us?
I. Evaluating Directions: Choose the letter of correct answer.
learning
1. What is the best statement for the general
understanding of the word “deculturation”?
a. Cultural understanding is based from facts that had
never been forgotten.
b. Cultural application is based from theory of
knowledge that is forgotten.
c. Cultural beliefs can change because of the needs of
the society.
d. Cultural beliefs can’t change because of society’s
needs.
2. What is the ability to understand a culture on its own
terms and not to make judgments using the standards of
one's own culture?
a. anthropology c. universalism
 b. cultural relativism d. realism
3. What concept has the goal to promote understanding
of cultural practices that is not typically part of one's own
culture?
a. anthropology c. universalism
b. cultural relativism d. realism
4.What makes cultural relativism important to
anthropology?
a. It is a tool, a method for attempting to see
things
from a multiplicity of viewpoints so as to better
understand them.
b. It explains the uniqueness of every culture.
c. It differs what society and culture is.
d. No importance at all.
5. In cultural relativism, marriage pattern is a
____________ and not objective truth.
a.no choice option c. cultural option
b. parental choice d. personal mandate

(Note: The teacher has the option to add the number of

items in the assessment.)
J. Additional 1. How important is cultural relativism?
activities for
2. Give an example on cultural relativism in your
application or
everyday life.
remediation
IV. Remarks
V. Reflection
A. No. of learners who earned 80% on the
formative assessment
B. No. of learners who require additional
activities for remediation
C. Did the remedial lesson work? No. of
learners who have caught up with the
lesson
D. No. of learners who continue to require
remediation
E. Which of my teaching strategies worked
well? Why did this work?
F. What difficulties did I encounter which
my principal and supervisor can help me
solve?
G. What innovation or localized material
did I use/ discover which I wish to share
with other teachers?

Prepared by: MELCHI S. FRASCO

Ponot National High School
Ponot District