UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE SOCIETY
AND POLITICS
Prepared by: Risan R.Limasa, LPT
Ariel Jabagat, LPT
 IDENTITY
 is the distinctive characteristics that defines an
individual or is shared by those belonging to a particular
group.
Identity can also change over the course of a person’s
lifetime. It is continuously shaped and reshaped through
the passage of time as well as the overall context of one’s
life cycle, including his or her activities within the society
and interaction with other people.
 CULTURE
 can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and
institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to
generation.

it allows people to understand themselves in relation to others and

provides them a lens through which they base what is considered the
“right way” of doing things.
 SOCIETY
 refers to a group of people
living in a community.
  a community or group of
people having common
traditions, institutions, and
interests medieval
society western society.
 SOCIAL SCIENCES
 this is a disciplines under
which identity, culture,
society and politics are
studied.
 it also focuses on the study
of human behavior.
 ANTHROPOLOGY
 it is a systematic study of the biological, cultural
and social aspects of man.

 it is derived from two Greek words “Anthropos”

which means “man” and “logos” which means to
“ study or inquiry”.
 SOCIOLOGY
 is the study of social life, social change, and the
social causes and consequences of human behavior.

 Sociologists investigate the structure of groups,

organizations, and societies and how people interact
within these contexts.
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
 is the systematic study of politics.
 it describes as the activity through which people make,
preserve, and amend the general rules under which they
live.
 it focuses on the fundamental values of equality, freedom
and justice and its processes are linked into dynamics of
conflict, resolution and cooperation.
 RELATIVISTIC APPROACH

 considers cultures as equal.

 this view holds that there is
no “superior “ and “inferior”
cultures, and it is unique in
its own way.
 ETHNOCENTRIC APPROACH
 is the belief that one’s
native culture is superior
to other culture.
 it tends to have a
negative view of other
countries and people.
 XENOCENTRISM
 refers to the desire to
engage in the elements of
another culture rather than
their own.
 inferior culture
 CULTURAL RELATIVISM
 recognizes and accepts the cultural differences
between societies.
 Believes that every aspect of a culture can be
justified.
 no particular therefore can claim superiority over
other cultures
 STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONISM

 operates on the assumption that society is a

stable and orderly system.
 consider that culture as a glue that binds
society together, leading to social order.