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    The document provides an introduction to the concepts of identity, culture, society, and politics. It defines identity as the characteristics that define an individual or group. Culture is defined as a society's way of life that provides the basis for identity and allows people to understand themselves in relation to others. Society refers to a group of people living in a community in a web of social relationships. The academic disciplines that study these concepts are called the social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology studies human cultures and societies. Sociology seeks to explain social order and change. Political science is the study of politics and how governments function.

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    Lesson 1 :

    INTRODUCTION
    TO CULTURE,
    SOCIETY, AND
    POLITICS
    Bellwork

    What makes you a Filipino?


    Identity, Culture and
    Society
    Identity
    The distinctive Can be influenced by other
    characteristics that defines factors such as sexual
    an individual or is shared by orientation, gender and
    those who belong to a nationality
    particular group

    Shapes both individual and Can also change over


    group behavior as well as the course of a person’s
    people’s views about other life
    people and society
    Culture
    Traditions • It is defined as a society’s way of life that
    Nonmaterial provides the basis for forging identities.
    Symbols

    Material • It allows people to understand themselves


    in relation to others and provides them a
    basis of what is right

    • All societies have some forms of subculture

    • Material – food, clothing, music


    • Nonmaterial – customs, beliefs, traditions
    Society
    • It refers to a group of people living
    A in a community.

    D • It is a web of social relationship,


    B which is always changing.
    C
    Social, Cultural and
    Political Change
    Social Science
    and its
    Academic Disciplines
    Social Science
    The disciplines under which identity,
    culture, society and politics are
    collectively called the social sciences.

    It is comprised of a wide array of academic


    disciplines that study the overall function of
    society as well as the interactions among
    its members and institutions.
    Academic Disciplines
    in Social Science
    Anthropology

    Sociology

    Political Science
    ANTHROPOLOGY
    Social Anthropology – how patterns and practices and
    - the systematic study of the cultural variations develop across different societies
    biological, cultural, and social
    Cultural Anthropology – cultural variation across
    aspects of man. different societies and examines the need to understand

    Linguistic Anthropology – language and discourse and


    how they reflect and shape aspects of human culture

    Biological Anthropology – origins of humans and the interplay


    between social factors and the processes of human evolution

    Archaeology – prehistoric societies and studying their tools and


    environment
    SOCIOLOGY - The study of human social life, groups, and society. It also
    seeks to explain the bases of social order and social change.

    Max Weber Herbert Spencer

    Content Here

    Karl Marx
    Auguste Comte
    POLITICAL SCIENCE
    - The systematic study of politics which is described
    as the activity through which people make, preserve,
    and amend the general rules under which they live

    Political Administration – how government


    functions and how decisions and policies
    were made

    Political Economy – the interplay between


    economics, politics and law and its
    implications to the various institution

    Comparative Politics – domestics politics


    and governance systems across different
    sovereign states
    End of Day 1

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