UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND THE POLITICS

DEFINING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

(SHAKESPEARE, HOMER, MARX, NEWTON)
CLASSROOM CULTURE
 CULTURE
IT IS GENERALLY DEFINED AS THE SUM OF AN
INDIVIDUAL’S WAY OF LIFE, RANGING FROM THE FOOD
HE OR SHE EATS, THE CLOTHES HE OR SHE WEARS, AND
THE HOUSE WHERE HE OR SHE LIVES.
o MUSIC
o DANCE
o POETRY
o FASHION TRENDS
o MANNERS
o TECHNOLOGY
o TABOOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrjxSC47S50
 SOCIETY
IT IS GENERALLY DEFINED AS AN
ORGANIZED GROUP OR GROUPS OF
INTERDEPENDENT PEOPLE WHO SHARE A
COMMON TERRITORY, LANGUAGE, AND
CULTURE. AND WHO ACT TOGETHER FOR
COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL AND WELL – BEING.
o SOCIAL FEATURES
o IDENTITY AND PRIDE
IT REFERS TO THE POLITICS
“THEORY, ART AND
PRACTICE OF
GOVERNMENT.”
 GOVERNMEN
T
A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF A
POLITICAL INSTITUTION. IT
EXERCISES POWER ESPECIALLY IN
RELATION TO GOVERNANCE AND
DECISION – MAKING.

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POWER
DEFINED IN
DEMOCRATIC
PRINCIPLES, IS A
STATUS GRANTED
TO INDIVIDUALS ON
INSTITUTIONS TO
PROPERLY RUN THE
GOVERNMENT AND
IMPLEMENTTHE
 3 BRANCHES OF
PHILIPPINE
GOVERNMENT
LEGISLATIVE - is authorized to make laws, alter, and repeal them
through the power vested in the Philippine Congress. This institution is divided
into the Senate and the House of Representatives.
EXECUTIVE - carries out laws. It is composed of the President and the
Vice President who are elected by direct popular vote and serve a term of six
years. The Constitution grants the President authority to appoint his Cabinet.
JUDICIAL - It holds the power to settle controversies involving rights that
are legally demandable and enforceable. This branch determines whether or not
there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of
jurisdiction on the part and instrumentality of the government. It is made up of
a Supreme Court and lower courts.
 GENDER
SERVES AS A GUIDE ON HOW MALES AND
FEMALES THINK AND ACT ABOUT
THEMSELVES; THE WAYS THEY INTERACT
WITH OTHERS; AND HOW THEY PERFORM
THEIR VARIOUS ROLES IN SOCIETY.
 RELIGION
AN ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF IDEAS ABOUT
THE SPIRITUAL SPHERER OR THE
SUPERNATURAL, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED
CEREMONIAL OR RITUALISTIC PRACTICES
BY WHICH PEOPLE TRY TO INTERPRET AND
INFLUENCE ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSE
OTHERWISE BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL.
 SOCIOECONOMIC
STATUS
REFERS TO THE CATEGORY OF PERSONS WHO HAVE
MORE OR LESS THE SAME SOCIOECONOMIC
PRIVILEGES IN A SOCIETY.
3 TYPES OF SOCIAL CLASS
UPPER CLASS – ELITE FAMILIES
• NEW RICH & TRADITIONAL UPPER CLASS
MIDDLE CLASS - SMALL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
OPERATORS, OFW’s
LOWER CLASS - FARMERS, SERVICE WORKER,
INDIGENT FAMILIES
 ETHNICITY
THE EXPRESSION OF THE SET OF CULTURAL IDEAS
HELD BY A DISTINCT ETHNIC OR INDIGENEOUS
GROUP.

ETHNIC GROUP- REFERS TO PEOPLE WHO

COLLECTIVELY AND PUBLICLY INDENTIFY
THEMSELVES AS DISTINCT AND UNIQUE BASED ON
DISTINGUISHABLE CULTURAL FEATURES.
• LANGUAGE
• SHARED ANCESTRY
• COMMON ORIGIN