UCSP11 Q1 Module1
UCSP11 Q1 Module1
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Welcome to the Understanding Culture, Society and Politics for Grade 11 Alternative Delivery Mode
(ADM) Module on Nature, Goals and Perspectives in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science
(MELC 1).
This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators both from public and
private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards
set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in
schooling.
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent learning activities
at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st
century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.
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Welcome to the Understanding Culture, Society and Politics for Grade 11 Alternative Delivery
Mode (ADM) Module on Nature, Goals and Perspectives in Anthropology, Sociology and Political
Science (MELC 1).
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module.
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What’s More
This comprises activities for independent
practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the answers
to the exercises using the Answer Key at the
end of the module.
What I Have Learned
This includes questions or blank
sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process
what you learned from the lesson.
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What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you master the nature
of Understanding Culture Society and Politics. The scope of this module permits it to be used in
many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of
students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order
in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.
The module is about the Nature, Goals and Perspectives in Anthropology, Sociology and Political
Science
What I Know
General Direction: Read the following items carefully. Write the letter that corresponds to your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
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For numbers 1-4, identify the branch of science described in each item. Choose your answer from the
given choices below:
1. This is the study of society, patterns of social interactions, and culture of everyday life.
2. Its goal is to look for the similarities and differences among the cultures of societies around
the world. In doing so, we could be able to understand more about human nature, and be
more tolerant on other people’s behavior and actions.
3. If we want to know why certain social phenomena happened, such as the television program
Eat Bulaga’s Kalyeserye gaining millions of tweets worldwide, this field of social science
answers these occurrences.
4. Its main concern is to learn how to use power over others to maintain social order and
harmony among citizens.
For numbers 5-8, identify the most appropriate discipline to be used in the following research
scenarios and recent development that happened in our country. Choose your answer from the
given choices below:
5. Preservation of cultural diversity and respect for traditions in this period of globalization
6. Exchange of culture and ideas in the macro level and breakdown of families in the micro level
as a result of economic migration by Filipino workers
7. Framing legislative policies abolishing or limiting political dynasties all over the
Philippines.
8. Referendum was held in selected provinces comprising the old Bangsamoro republic for the
ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Basic Law. This was done to promote development,
peace, and order in their locality.
For numbers 9-15, choose the best answer for each item.
9. A researcher chose to write about indigenous people in Mindanao and he described them
using some concepts such as kinship, gender and power. He tried to compare them to other
groups of people. Which of the following fields of science did the statement above portray?
a. Anthropology c. Political science
b. History d. Sociology
10. It entails political ideas, ideologies, institutions, policies, processes, laws, strategy, and war.
a. Anthropology c. Sociology
b. Philosophy d. Political science
11. Food habits like the way of cooking foods, habits of dressing up, relationship with family
members or with in-laws, and many others are some of the focuses of this anthropological
field.
a. Biological anthropology c. Cultural & social anthropology
b. Archaeology d. Linguistics
12. Society and culture is indeed connected with one another, all encompassing, meaning we
visualize culture and society as a complex whole. The following descriptions below clearly
explain how culture, society, and politics are interrelated with one another, except for one.
Which description is it?
a. People interact meaningfully with one another and observe social norms as members of
the society.
b. The culture of a society encompasses the meaningful processes and products of social
interactions.
c. People interact in society as individuals and as group with duties and privileges.
d. Members of the society are not active in the engagement in political activities.
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13. Which of the following statement is NOT a definition of the word anthropology?
a. This is the study of ancient societies and their cultural traditions.
b. It comes from the Greek words anthropos meaning “humankind,” and logos meaning
“study.”
c. It studies the ways in which cultural traditions of different groups of people have
changed over the years.
d. This deals with the scientific study of human interactions, social groups and
institutions, and the whole society.
14. In social science, the study of the biological evolution of man is important because it provides
explanations on the reason behind the biological variations among contemporary human
population. Which field of social science is discussed in the said statement?
a. Archeology c. Biological anthropology
b. Ethnology d. Linguistics
15. A group of people is responsible for discovering and digging up old communities. Based on
the fossils and artifacts found during the excavation, they try to put these pieces of evidence
together to describe the community, its people, their culture, and traditions. Who do you think
are these people?
a. Archeologists c. Ethnologists
b. Historians d. Sociologists
What’s In
Before we proceed, let us go back with some of the important concepts about culture that
is the main focus of our discussion.
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#Walang Forever –
Change is inevitable because it is the law of nature. Similarly, society does not remain
static. It changes, as the world continues to change, most especially with the advent of new
discoveries in science and technology. It is not new to us how our ways of life before is no longer
the ways of life of today’s generation. People should be open for changes. It is very important that
we understand and accept the challenges these changes are imposing on us and recognize all
the factors that brought these changes.
Since change is already happening at present, let us realize how social change occurs
because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Tell the changes on some aspects of your life by
completing the table below.
View of the
world
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Priorities in
life
Relationships
with others
What’s New
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#PIN-POINT
Using the given illustration above, identify the concepts that you can relate to culture,
society and politics.
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After doing the activity, give your own definition of culture, society and politics.
Culture
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Society
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Politics
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What is It?
In this part of your journey, we provide something for you to deepen your understanding
about culture.
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Please continue reading with comprehension as you discover further knowledge that will help
you out in your quest on the remaining phases of this lesson.
Since our course is Understanding Culture, Society and Politics, we can deepen our
understanding of ourselves as members of society by studying these three specialized fields, namely:
anthropology for culture, sociology for society and political science for politics
A lot of us are likely confused with the difference between sociology and anthropology.
Confusion might come from their commonalities as the two are dealing with society and culture. Both
of them study human behavior and the different factors that affects our social relations. Since these
two fields are most likely similar to each other, let us first draw out its differences
To find out the difference between anthropology and sociology, let us study the similar and
various concepts between each field below:
Anthropology Sociology
Answers the What does it mean to be human? How do we study society?
question.. Who are you? What are the things that you think
Where do you come from? influence your life?
What is life to people living in places with
different culture and behavior? W
Where did it Anthropology started as a science Sociology emerged as an academic field
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Sociology started as the study of European
society by European people (inward).
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Auguste Comte – French philosopher and
mathematician. He coined the term
sociology. He saw the need for a systematic
science of studying society and in dealing
with the solution of its basic problems.
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Sociology is the study of society, patterns
of social interactions, and culture of
everyday life. Unlike anthropology, the
knowledge created by sociology is used to
understand one’s own society.
Sociologists use qualitative research
method in doing their studies.
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Subjects of Biological anthropology refers to Anything in a society that influences
Inquiry the study of human origins people’s lives can be subjects of inquiry,
(genetics, race, evolutions, like different social phenomena, issues,
fossils, primates). and problems.
Cultural anthropology is the
Sociologists can also look into things that
influence life like family background,
socio-economic status, ethnicity, social
classes, religion, gender, beliefs, traditions,
norms, among others.
Some fields are social organization, social
psychology, applied sociology, and human
ecology.
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study of living people (religion,
social system, language, clothing,
foods, beliefs, traditions, etc).
Linguistics is the study of
language, its evolution, its
connection to other languages,
and others.
Archeology refers to the study of
dead culture (religion, social
system, language, how they
dress, foods, beliefs, traditions,
etc).
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Goals The goals of anthropology are the The goals of Sociology are the following:
following: -Obtain possible theories and principles
- See the commonalities among about society as well as various aspects
people (tradition, language, of social life.
kinship, etc).
- Look at what makes us the
same to understand more
about human nature.
- Discover what makes people - Study the nature of humanity to further
different from each other in examine our roles within a society.
order to understand and - Appreciate that all things in society are
preserve diversity. interdependent.
- Produce new knowledge and - Expose our minds to different
new theories about mankind perspectives in attaining truth.
and behavior.
- Look at one’s own culture
more objectively.
After finding out the difference between anthropology and sociology, let us now proceed
with another discipline in social science that plays another important role in our life.
Politics impacts our lives directly or indirectly, whether we are aware of its effects or not. If
there is a crime that took place, we call a police, and this scheme is part of government. If there
was a fire that occured, we call the fire department, and that’s also a part of government. Military
is government as well, let alone our civil liberty and our rights which have influences on us daily.
In school, you were asked to read by heart the Constitution. When you are apprehended by an
authority, you asked your violation and insisted on your legal rights. Even inside your house,
there are still set of rules that are being enforced and followed. All these things are related to a
field called Political Science.
Description/Explanation
Origin - The study of political science was started by the ancient Greeks.
- Aristotle on his book “Politics” stated that Man is a political animal. It
means that it is our nature to live in a society and to have power over
another.
Concepts - Political Science is the systematic study of government, politics, and
political power.
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- It is often defined as who gets what, when, where and how.
Subjects of - political theory, philosopy and different political ideologies
Inquiry - public management
- human rights
- international relations and foreign policies
Goals - Make people a better citizens.
- Keep social order and harmony among different group of people.
- Protect the rights of an individual.
- Avoid conflict and promote cooperation.
What’s More
Find your own social location by creating your own social map. Fill up every important
feature given on each box to understand yourself better.
Race Religion
Gender
Language/Dialect
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What I Have
Learned
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“T-M-L Phrase
It Matters because
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I’ve Learned today that
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What I Can Do
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Based on the picture below, identify the major social issue or problem that affects
our society today. Discuss how the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and political science
help us in addressing this issue.
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Assessment
General Direction: Read the following items carefully. Write the letter that corresponds to
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
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For numbers 1-3, identify the branch of social science define in each item. Choose your answer from
the given choices below:
For numbers 4-6, identify the most appropriate discipline in terms of its goals and subjects of inquiry
as stated on each sentences below. Choose your answer from the given choices below:
For numbers 7-15, choose the best answer for each item.
7. Its goal is to obtain possible theories and principles about society and study the nature of
humanity. Which of the following discipline in social sciences is the focus of this goal?
a. Anthropology b. Humanities c. Political Science d. Sociology
8. Political dynasty is a prevalent problem in our country as only few related people had given the
chance to rule. Several important government positions are held by people who belong to one
family. Which social sciences discipline could explain and solve the problem?
9. The goal of this particular discipline in social sciences is citizenship education. It requires us to
understand and appreciate the duties and obligations of being a member of a society we are a
part. What discipline in social sciences is the focus of this goal?
a. Anthropology b. Humanities c. Political Science d. Sociology
10. A researcher chose to write about indigenous people in Mindanao and he described them using
some concepts such as kinship, gender and power. He tried to compare them to other groups of
people. Which of the following fields of science did the statement above portray?
a. Archeologists c. Ethnographer
b. Historians d. Sociologists
12. Society and culture is indeed connected with one another, all encompassing, meaning we
visualize culture and society as a complex whole. The following descriptions below clearly explain
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how culture, society, and politics are interrelated with one another, except for one. Which
description is it?
a. Members of the society are not active in the engagement in political activities.
b. People interact meaningfully with one another and observe social norms as members of the
society.
c. The culture of a society encompasses the meaningful processes and products of social
interactions
d. People interact in society as individuals and as group with duties and privileges.
13. Which of the following statements are not TRUE.
15. According to Morga in his Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (1609), In some parts of Luzon
Islandthere are number of natives who are black in colour and with kinky hair, and neither sex is
very tall although they are strong and husky. These are barbarians and of poor capacity. What
can you say about this observation of de Morga? Are they accurate and objective? Why?
a. Yes, because they don’t have an organized form of government, no formal schooling, dressed
with their primitive attire and have no concept about their self and culture.
b. Yes, because European people are more advanced in their science and technology. They are
more civilized and educated.
c. No, because their judgement are only based on their own observation and used their own
culture as basis of comparison.
d. No, because their observations does not conform with the ethnographic method used by
anthropologists to better understand others’ culture.
Additional Activities
i-classify-it
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Sociology and anthropology are social science disciplines that focus on studying the
behavior of humans within their societies. The main difference between the two concepts is that
sociology concentrates on society (social institutions/structures) while anthropology focuses
on culture. With this, identify the following statements below if it is a scenario related to
sociology or anthropology. The words in bold letters serve as your clue.
2. What happened when statements are broken down and grouped together into
anthropology or sociology? Does it still give you a clear picture of culture and society?
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3. What do you think is the importance of the combined role of anthropology and sociology
in understanding the culture of other people?
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Answer Key
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