Understanding Culture, Society and Politics: Learning Activity Sheet Quarter 1 (Week 2)

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Understanding Culture, Society and

Politics
Learning Activity Sheet

Quarter 1 (Week 2)
Writer: HERBERT C. OGNITA JR.

Naga City Science High School
Evaluator: TERESITA S. ARLANTE, Ph. D.

SHS Coordinator
UCSP-Q1-Week2-LAS 1 of 4
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Understanding Culture, Society and Politics (Q1_Week 2)

Culture and Society
LEARNING COMPETENCY
Analyze the concept, aspects and changes in/of culture and society.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
● Describe culture from your own perspective
● Design a society with a new norm to be enforce
INTRODUCTION
Thomas (1997) explains that unlike other animals, humans are not controlled by natural instincts. The fact that
human is not locked into a set of predetermined behavior means that they are able to adapt to and change their
environment in a variety of ways. The methods by which collections of people – be they small groups or entire
societies – deal with their environment form the foundation of their culture. For many of us, the word culture
produces images of fine art and literature, dining in expensive restaurants, wearing designer clothes, and
having all the money we could possibly need.
ACTIVITIES
What is it?
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to philosophize?
Culture consists of all the shared products of human groups. These products include physical objects and the
beliefs, values and behaviors shared by a group. Although people in everyday speech use the term society
and culture interchangeably, sociologists distinguish between the terms. A society is a group of mutually
interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share common a common culture and feeling
of unity. In simple terms, society consists of people, and culture consists of the products that people create.
Culture is the way of life of a group of people. It includes common practices of a society, its shared
understandings, and its social organization. By overcoming individual differences, culture helps to unify the
group.
Kinds of Culture:
1. Material Culture. It is the physical objects that people create.
2. Non-material Culture. It is the abstract human creations.
Aspects of Culture:
1. Symbol. The use of symbols is the very basis of human culture. It is through symbols that we create
our culture and communicate it to group members and future generations. A symbol is anything that
stands for something else. By “stands for,” we mean that the symbol has a shared meaning attached
to it.
2. Language. The most obvious aspect of any culture probably is its language. Language is the
organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system. Words, when organized
according to accepted rules of grammar, can be used to express any idea.
3. Values. It is the shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.
4. Norms. All groups create norms to enforce their cultural values. Norms are the shared rules of conduct
that tell people how to act on a specific situation. It is important to keep in mind that norms are
expectations for behavior, not the actual behavior.
• Folkways. A norm that does not have great moral significance attached to them. These are the
general customary ways or habitual ways and patterns of behavior which are followed without
much thought. It is accumulated and repetitive patterns of expected behavior.
• Mores. A norm that has great moral significance. It dictates of reasons that distinguishes human
acts as right or wrong or good and bad. This are society’s code of ethics and standard of
morality.
Characteristics of Culture:
1. Culture is learned. It refers to different habits, skills, values and knowledge are acquired by man.
2. Culture is dynamic. It is preserved and accumulated; it is changing.
3. Culture is integrated. It is a social product, it is developed by people interacting with one another.
4. Culture is shared (Diffusion). It refers to the spread of cultural traits or social practices from a society
or group to another belonging to the same society or to another through direct contact with each
other and exposure to new form.
5. Culture is Symbolic. Symbols are signs, emblems, and/or other things that are arbitrary but
represent something in a meaningful way. Language is probably the most significant cultural
symbol, it is the method by which humans transmit culture from one generation to another.
Task No. 1 Everyone has a Culture – Everyone is different. Respond to each question. Present your
answer in not less than two paragraphs with a minimum of five sentences each.
1. In your family, what is considered polite and what is considered rude?

2. Describe something very important to you, it could be a thing or something that you value most.
As individual create a new norm for society. Decide what the norm is, how it will be
Task No. 2 enforced, and what the sanctions will be for following or breaking the norm. Then
describe how you would effectively socialize people into this norm.
RUBRIC
Criteria Description Allotted Points
Content The learner demonstrates clear 5

understanding of the concepts by
carefully and correctly answering the
given task.
Clarity and Organization The learner conveys his/her ideas in a 5
clear and logical manner.
Originality The learner submits a non-plagiarized 5
output.
Total: 15
REFERENCES
Dennis J. Saluba, Angelita D. Damilig, Abigeil F. Carlos, Jayson M. Barlan, Jovy F. Cuadra. (2016)
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics. Malabaon City: Mutya Publishing House, Inc.
Alejandria-Gonzalez, Maria Carinnes P. (2019) Understanding Culture, Society and Politics. Makati City: Diwa
Learning Systems Inc.

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Understanding Culture, Society and

Learning Activity Sheet

Writer: HERBERT C. OGNITA JR.

Evaluator: TERESITA S. ARLANTE, Ph. D.

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics (Q1_Week 2)

1. In your family, what is considered polite and what is considered rude?

Criteria Description Allotted Points

Content The learner demonstrates clear 5

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