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UCSP Week 2
UCSP Week 2
Understanding
Culture, Society,
and Politics
1st Quarter: Module 1
Culture and Society: Dynamics of Society
Danilo L. Baraquiel
Module Writer
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HUMSS – Grade 11
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Quarter 1 – Module 2
First Edition, 2020
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Understanding
Culture, Society,
and Politics
Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Culture and Society: Dynamics of Society
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Society is an important product of human interaction and interconnectedness. It
symbolizes the group within which human beings can live a total common life – the peer
groups, social organizations like the family and kinship groups; economic, political, religious
and educational groups; and communities. In this module, you will see that society is a
product of human social processes intended to meet basic needs for survival.
Content Standards:
Performance Standards:
The learners
1. Appreciate the nature of culture and society from the perspectives of anthropology and
sociology;
2. Demonstrate a holistic understanding of culture and society;
3. Value cultural heritage and express pride of place without being ethnocentric.
Learning Competencies:
Analyze the concept, aspects and changes in/of culture and society.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this module the learners will be able to:
1. Describe the construction of society through the hidden rules of society;
2. Analyze the different forms of interaction present in society;
3. Discuss the key sociological theories regarding the possibility of society.
EXPECTATION
This module will equip you the necessary content knowledge, skills, and competencies
about the society and culture: Dynamics of Society. As such, they are treated initially as
markers of the disciplinal territories of sociology and anthropology respectively. You read and
understand carefully each part of the module so that you can be able to answer various
activities. It is hoped to provide you an appreciation and understanding about the lesson.
In this module you will be able to know that society as individuals continue to interact
thus, societies were formed. Also they were organized in such a way that there are rules of
conduct, customs, traditions, folkways, and mores, and expectations that ensure appropriate
behavior among members. You will be able to identify the different elements, processes, and
dynamics of society.
There are various activities prepared by the writer/s that will help you analyze the
concept, aspects, and changes in/of culture and society. It is hoped that you will learn to
value the knowledge and wisdom of this module.
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PRE-TEST
Directions: True or False. Assess whether the statements are true or false. Write T if the
statement is True and F if the statement is False.
______________1. Society is a historically formed entity.
______________2. Conflict over limited resources may spark cooperation more than
conflict.
______________3. Symbols are something that represent something else.
______________4. When parts of a system perform their assigned functions, social order
is assured of.
______________5. Unwritten and invisible rules are more powerful than written ones.
______________6. Meaning is objectively derived from symbols.
______________7. There are four classical theories of the origin of society.
______________8. Society is a concept that can be used to grasp complex social
phenomena.
______________9. Society is made possible by social interactions.
______________10. Most of our day-to-day actions and interactions are governed by written and
visible rules.
LOOKING BACK
Directions: Read carefully each statement or question below and fill in the blank(s) with the
correct answer. Answers may be more than one word.
1. ____________ is a reality or fact of life peculiar to a particular society; specifically a
phenomenon, such as social class, religion, etc., as experienced by a particular social group;
(as a mass noun) reality as conceived by a particular society or social group, dependent on
their customs and beliefs.
2. _____________ refers to the behavior of groups that result from the interactions of individual
group members as well as to the study of the relationships between individual interactions
and group level behaviors.
3.______________ is derived from two Greek words anthropos and logos, which intensively
studies human and the respective cultures where they were born and actively belong to.
4.______________ is the study of society, social institutions, and social relationships. Sociology
is interested in describing and explaining human behavior, especially as it occurs within a
social context
5.______________ is part the social sciences that deals with the study of politics, power, and
government. In turn, politics refers to “the process of making collective decisions in a
community, society, or group through application of influence and power.
Society as a Concept
Do you know that the word “society” was
coined by social scientists? This is to facilitate
their exploration of social phenomena. It is a
tool to hold the complexity of phenomena. As a
concept, society represents an ideal type, which
more or less depicts the form, process, and
dynamics of the social reality that it embodies. https://www.google.com/search?q=society
&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiShoiCkorqAhVxx
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Concepts of course, may change through their changing meanings and interpretations or
disappear from non-use altogether. However, for master concept like society, the credibility
of change and disappearance is very unlikely to happen. Studying society provides us an
idea on its importance in creating an equal, just, and humane society. The significance of
studying society are the following: a. representation of our identity; b. characterize by the
totality of a territory; c. symbol of political independence; d. avenue for economic
independence.
What is it?
Society as a Facticity
Society is formally defined as constituting a fairly large number of people who are
living in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside their area, and
participate in a common culture. An informal way to concretize the given definition of society
is to access its power in shaping the lives of the people inside. At this point, bear in mind the
twin concepts of social forces and social facts because they are the mechanics of operation of
society as a factual entity.
We can liken society to a deity. A deity or God is supposed to possess the tripartite
(i.e., three-fold) powers reserved for Him alone – omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence
(all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere). The analogy of society to a God suggests the
immense power of society to make or unmake lives of people. Society is all-powerful because
it “agents” control and runs the machinery of social control. It is all-knowing because its
“library” keeps all possible knowledge and collects the memories of the people who form it. It
is because its “spies” are distributed in the four corners of the land. Every single action of
ours is controlled by society. The tripartite powers of society are even more evident in its
effects on our daily and routine actions and behavior.
If we are translating the tripartite powers of society to the language of the social
sciences, and then we can look at this way:
Features of Society as God
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What Makes Society Possible: Three (3) Theoretical Perspectives
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be human, culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of
phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies.
Society Rules
Conflict Structural
Theory Interactionism
Symbolic
Interactionism
1. Structural Functionalism
2. Conflict Theory
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3. Symbolic Interactionism &
Meaning-Making
Significance
of Society
POST TEST
Matching Type. Match column B with column C. Write the letter of the correct answer in
column A.
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5. It argues that symbols and meanings E. Rules
make society possible.
ENRICHMENT
Directions: Conduct a participant observation activity that describes the hidden rules that
govern social interaction in a specific context. These invisible rules will be identified through
the behavior of people in actual interactions or situations. You can choose from any of the
following situations:
1) Riding the LRT or MRT
2) Riding a public vehicle
3) Buying food in the canteen or market
4) Crossing the street
5) Listening to a class lecture (physical or virtual)
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