Hello grade 11!
UNDERSTANDING
CULTURE, SOCIETY, and
POLITICS
Learning Targets:
• I can analyze social, political, and cultural change.
• I can demonstrate curiosity and an openness to explore
the origins and dynamics of culture and society and
political identities.
• I can trace the link between behavior and culture through
observation and analysis.
CONCEPTUAL TOOLS
CULTUR SOCIETY POLITICS
• cannot be seen or touched
• influence the way we see and experience as
social beings
➢allow us to form other
concepts
➢relate concepts to each
other
➢decontruct old ones
➢one of the GREAT tools of
all scientific knowledge
What is CULTURE?
Systems of shared BELIEFS,
VALUES, CUSTOMS, and
BEHAVIORS
What is CULTURE?
Transmitted from generation
to generation through
LEARNING
What is CULTURE?
Artifacts that the members of
society use to cope with their
world and with one another
CULTURE is…….
Shared!
CULTURE is…….
Symbolic!
CULTURE is…….
All-encompassing!
CULTURE is…….
Integrated
group of people living together under the same
rules and regulations
What is SOCIETY?
the way we are being steered to live our lives
What is SOCIETY?
is a group of individuals involved in persistent social
interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or
social territory
What is SOCIETY?
forces
forces
forces
Any effective urge or impulse that leads to social
action. Specifically, a social force is a consensus on
the part of a sufficient number of the members of
society to bring about social action or social change
of some sort.
A mirror of the way our
culture 'reads' us as a
member of society
Gary graduated a year ago. Despite being blessed with several
job offers, he chooses to remain jobless and hangs around with
his barkada. Together, they love to “istambay” in the town
plaza especially at night.
▪ person's or a collectivity's principles
▪ standards of behavior and are
considered as judgement
▪ ideals shared by a members of
culture about what is good or bad
▪ broad guidelines in behavior in all
situations
▪ something one accepts as true or real
▪ takes the form of firmly held
opinion or conviction
▪ based on tradition, faith,
experience, scientific research
VALUES
BELIEFS
▪ the process of making uniform
decisions applying to all members of
a group
▪ organized control over a human
community, particularly a state
▪ The process of making uniform
decisions applying to all members of a
group. Politics is about POWER, from
clans and tribes of traditional societies
through modern local governments, to
the international level.
characterized by changes in
cultural symbols, rules of
behaviour, social organizations,
or value systems
new technology platforms
facilitating communication, self-
expression, and interactions
possession and expressions of
power represents
