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UNDERSTAND CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS

1. CHAPTER 1 The Social Sciences and the Three Faces of the Social

2. THE THREE FACES OF SOCIAL SOCIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCE Social Forces Cultural Practices Power Relations

3. impinged upon by social forces (sociology) routinized by cultural practices (anthropology) constantly enmeshed in power relations (political sciences)

4. OVERARCHING QUESTIONS What is the social? How do socials actions reveal facets of the social In what ways do these facets inform our understanding of cultural practices/traditions in general and our everyday actions in particular? In what ways are these facets represented by sociology, anthropology and political science?

5. LESSON 1 Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics: Some Key Observations

6. CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS AS CONCEPTUAL TOOLS Culture, Society and Politics are concepts Peirce (1998, p. 32) describes as concept as "the rational purport of a word or a conception" Concept is that as a conceptual tools, they allow us to form other concepts, relate concepts to each other, or even deconstruct old ones and replace them with something new. Weber ( 1946, p. 151).

7. CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS AS CONCEPTUAL TOOLS They allow us to form other concepts, or relate concepts to each other, or even deconstruct old ones and replace them with something new. Concepts allow the discovery of new aspects of a phenomenon. Concept can be conceived more as a ‘means’ rather than as an ‘end’.

8. CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS AS HEURISTIC TOOLS Concepts allow the discovery of new aspects of a phenomenon.

9. Students as Social Beings

10. STUDENTS AS SOCIAL BEINGS our sociality is defined by the very categories that we possess, the categories assigned to us by society at large these as to speak, function as tags with which our society read our worth and value. these categories that we posses are not natural; rather, they are socially constructed.

11. Gender appears to be the most fundamental, intrusive, and limiting The totality of our sociality has already been constructed for us.

12. Social Realities: Behavior and Phenomenon

13. SOCIAL REALITIES: BEHAVIOR AND PHENOMENON Why do people do such a thing? What it makes normal and acceptable to some people in some places and in unacceptable to others in other places?

14. Situation Behavior and Phenomena Gary graduated a year ago. Despite being blessed with several job offers, he chose to remain jobless and hang around with his barkada. Together they love to istambay in town plaza especially at night. istambay As a businessman, Mang Leo is used to giving 'padulas' to his main suppliers in order to expidite his business transactions with them. lagay Members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church are strongly prohibited from eating pork and food with blood as well as from smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages. food taboos Darius is openly gay. he lives with his partner Garner. He and Garner are both college professors in the local city college. same-sex partnership If grades were to be the basis of Rusty's standing in his econmic class, he would surely fail in the course. However he was given a passing grade by his econmic teacher, who happened to be a childhood friend of his mother. Use of a go between/padrino

15. Values Beliefs Values and Beliefs as behavior motivators

16. VALUES are person's or a collectivity's principles or standards of behavior and are considered as judgement of what is important in life. they are important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or bad and desirable and undesirable.

17. BELIEFS is something accepts as true or real. More often that not, belief takes the form of firmly held opinion or conviction, regardless of the lack of the verifiable evidence. Beliefs may be based on tradition, faith, experience, scientific research or some combination of these.

18. Social Dynamics: Social, Political and Cultural Change

19. Social Dynamics: Social Political, and Cultural Change Consider the ff. situations in the table below:

20. Scenario Phenomenon taking selfies is Alyssa's preoccupation. I t became a habit when her parents gave her a phone on her birthday. selfieing kapitan tim is the incumbent mayor of the City of Amin-Amin. His son, Timmy Jr. is currently running for the congressional seat of the district, a position occupied by his mother Cong. Valencia for about three cinsecutives terms. political dynasties Amina, a college student, is living alone in Manila. Both of her parents are OFWs working in the middle East. She visits them every summer break. transnational families As a youth volunteer, Verna finds the rainy season a bsuy season due to the frequency of typhoon related disasters. Sometimes she even spends her own money to buy relief goods for typhoon victims. youth volunteerism Michael almost missed the chance to finish high school he had been absent most of the time playing Mobile Legends video gaming