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The Historical Background of The Growth of Social Sciences
The Historical Background of The Growth of Social Sciences
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ACTIVITY 1
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anthropology-sociology-and-archaeology.html
Anthropological Perspectives
Anthropology is a study that deals with the origin of man and society. Its theories range
from traditional, modern to post-modern and as a discipline many of its concepts are borrowed
from biology, psychology, sociology, economics, ecology and others. Over time, the discipline
covers several million years, from the first proto-human ancestors to the present. Likewise, as a
study it covers the widest range of societies, from small hunter-gatherer bands to modern
societies.
Culture, Race & Ethnicity
These concepts are complex and are often confused or thought to mean the same thing – but they
do not. Many different definitions of these terms exist, and the following are examples:
Culture
Culture is not about superficial group differences or just a way to label a group of people.
• It is an abstract concept.
• It is the shared system of learned and shared values, beliefs and rules of conduct that
make people behave in a certain way.
• It is the standard for perceiving, believing, evaluating and acting. Culture enables
humans to survive in
• Not everyone knows everything about their own culture. their environment
Race
• Race is a term applied to people purely because of the way they look.
• It is difficult to say a person belongs to a specific race because there are so many
variations such as skin colour.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity is a sense of peoplehood, when people feel close because of sharing a similarity. It is
when you share the same things, for example:
• environmental characteristics such as living in the same area or sharing the same place of
origin.
ACTIVITY 2
ACTIVITY 3
Write your name in the box (middle) and write the following information of yourself in the
4 spaces
a. Gender
b. Socio-economic class
c. Ethnicity
d. religion
ACTIVITY 4
Why?
The concepts of nationality and ethnicity are not interchangeable. Both, however, are
capable of informing an individual’s behavior and habits due to a set of cultural norms that each
category provides. Nationality is the identity that is tied to being part of a nation or country – “a
group of people who share the same history, traditions, and language” and who inhabits a
particular territory delineated by a political border and controlled by a government. Nationality
can be acquired by being born in a country or by the process of legal applications called
naturalization. If one is born in the Philippines, he or she is called a Filipino citizen.
Visit the following website to see a list of all known existing ethnic groups in the
Philippines:
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philippines/
Using the information that the Web page provides, creates a portfolio of an ethnic
group that interests you. The portfolio should contain data (visual, text, numerical)
on the ethnic group. Your data may include the group’s clothes, food, environment,
and language.
Gender
Finally, there are people whose gender identities do not match their biological identity as male or
female. These people identify themselves as transgender. their sexual orientation is not related to
their genitalia, which allow them to identify with any other type of gender such as heterosexual,
homosexual, pansexual, bisexual, and asexual. Under this category are people who identify
themselves as transsexual. These individuals believe that the discord between their internal
gender and the gender role that they have to perform can be addressed through medical sexual
reassignment.
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What are some of the things from your culture that you are
proud of?