DAILY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET:

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

QUARTER 1 WEEK 1

Name: ____________________________ Date Accomplished: _____________Score: _________

Grade & Section: __________________ Parent/ Guardian Signature: _____________________

Activity Title: Social Map

Learning Target: Introduces and identify the subjects of inquiry and goals of sociology,
anthropology and political science as social science disciplines, and explain the human cultural
variations, social differences, social change and political identities.
Main Idea:
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Examples:

A new Grade 12 students came from the city of Davao, she has a unique features, like her way
of living, her religion, clothing and her manner of speaking, but even she is different to the other
students it is not a hindrance for her to become one of a good students in the class

Questions/ Exercises:

As a student, list down at least three (3) important factors that you think you are kind of person
you are now. Start with what unique in you as a social person. Complete the table below.

My unique features as social Types of social forces Assessment

person (is it social, cultural, political?) (does it provide opportunities or
constraints/limitations?)
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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 2

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Grade & Section: __________________ Parent/ Guardian Signature: _____________________

Activity Title: Concept Mapping

Learning Target: Explore the origins and dynamics of culture, society and political identities
and trace the link between behavior and culture through observation and analysis

Main Idea:
Culture, Society, and Politics are concepts. They cannot be seen or touched and yet they
influence the way we see and experience our individual and collective lives as social beings. It
is a tool to discover new aspects of phenomenon/issues or even deconstruct old ones and
replace them with something new. Sociality is defined by the very categories that human
possess that are assigned by society at large. They are socially constructed.

Examples:

Culture – beliefs and values

Society – students, group of people with common ideas

Politics - Political dynasty and political will

Questions/ Exercises:

Write any terms/word that can be associated/related with the following concepts: Culture, Society, Politics.

Culture Society Politics

DAILY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET:

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 3
Name: ____________________________ Date Accomplished: _____________Score: _________
Grade & Section: __________________ Parent/ Guardian Signature: _____________________

Activity Title: Data Retrieval Chart

Learning Target: Understand the benefits of recognizing the operation of social forces and the
shared concerns of sociology, anthropology, and political science with respect to the nature of
social change

Main Idea:
Sociology focuses on the ubiquity (present everywhere) of social forces in unlikely forms i.e.
sex, gender, religion, etc., it represent a constellation of unseen yet powerful forces influencing
the behavior of individuals and institutions. Anthropology seeks to uncover principles of behavior
that apply to all human communities, it focuses on human diversity around the world, and it
looks at cross-cultural differences in social institutions, cultural beliefs and communication
styles. Political Science the systematic study of government and politics, analyses about
political system, behavior and uses to predict future behavior.

Examples:

Sociology was born in Europe with the father of discipline, August Comte. It focuses on the
ubiquity of social forces, the behavior of individuals and institutions. The American
Anthropological Association describes as a science of seeking to uncover principles of behavior
that apply to all communities, and it is also called “a child of colonization”. It focuses on human
diversity. On the other hand, Political Science study of government and politics, it includes the
study of political philosophy, ethics, international relations and the dynamic relations between
different parts of government. The story of the political science is a crib version, where the
disciplines problematize the nature of power and studies how possession and exercise of power
can shape individual actions and collective decisions for that matter.

Questions/ Exercises:

Complete the table below based on your perception (in a brief explanation).

Social Science Definition Main Concerns Historical

Background
Sociology

Anthropology

Political Science
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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 4

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Activity Title: Differentiate Culture and Society

Learning Target: Determine the concept of a Society and culture and its relationship

Main Idea:
Society represents an idea type which more or less depicts the form and dynamics of the social
reality it embodies. Its origin are (1) the structural functional, (2) conflict theory (3)symbolic
interactionism. Culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the rage of
phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies. Culture and Society
are independent and interactive yet they express different aspects of the human situation.
People carry and transmit culture but are not culture, no society can operate without cultural
directives. The interdependence and the reciprocal relationship between culture and society
must always be keep in mind.

Examples:

Society – community
-this are the group of people who live in a particular time and place with common idea.

Culture - tradition
-the inherited actions, practices or behavior of a person /people in a particular place.

Questions/ Exercises:

Differentiate the two concepts, Culture and Society, in one word and with brief explanation.
Write your answer in the box.

Society Culture

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 5
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Activity Title: Pictionary

Learning Target: Identify the aspects and functions of culture.

Main Idea:

Culture is the possession of man. It revolves around the three essences of culture as a
system. Culture is social, it varies from society to society, it is shared, it is learned, it is
transmitted among members of society, it is continuous and cumulative, and it is
gratifying and idealistic. Since cultures seems to be universal human phenomenon it
occurs naturally to wonder whether culture corresponds to any universal human need.
Culture has certain functions for both the individual and society; (1) culture defines
situations, (2) culture defines attitudes, values and goals, (3) culture defines myths,
legends and supernatural, (4) cultural provides behavior patterns

Examples:

“Pagmamano” one of the values of Filipino that we inherited

and it build up through the ages. It is the product of one
human/society that identifies/distinguished an individual from
another individual.

Questions/ Exercises:

Draw / cut at least one (1) picture showing the Culture of the Philippines, with short explanation.

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 6

Name: ____________________________ Date Accomplished: _____________Score: _________

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Activity Title: Ethnocentrism

Learning Target: Explain Ethnocentrism as one of the features of cultures and its
function to the society

Main Idea:

Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency of each society to place its own culture patterns at
the center of things. It is the act of evaluating other cultures according to preconceptions
originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture. Being ethnocentric
means using our culture into a yardstick with which to measure all other cultures as
good or bad, high or low, right or queer in proportion as they resemble/similar ours. It
encourages the solidarity of a group, hinders the understanding or the cooperation
between groups and conflict of course often leads to social change. Ethnocentrism a
vehicle for promotion of social change.

Examples:

1. Judging the behavior and beliefs of people who are different from you.
2. Believing that there are primitive/ancient cultures, especially if their way of life is
different from yours.
3. Thinking of another culture’s traditional food as weird or gross.

Questions/ Exercises:

Write a short reflection and answer the question:

Have you experienced becoming ethnocentric? When and How?

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 7

Name: ____________________________ Date Accomplished: _____________Score: _________

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Activity Title: Identification of Cultural Heritage

Learning Target: Analyze Culture as Heritage, tangible and intangible heritage

Main Idea:
Culture has tangible and intangible components. They are called as material (tangible)

and nonmaterial (intangible) components of culture. Cultural artifacts both tangible and

intangible may become “heritage objects” by their complete age and association with

momentous historical events and noteworthy personalities. Preservation of cultural

heritage is tantamount to protecting them from external threats.

Examples:

Philippine Cultural Heritage:

Tangible - national flag, rice terraces

Intangible – national anthem (Lupang Hinirang), national dance- (tinikling).

Questions/ Exercises:

Identify the following heritage if it is Tangible or Intangible: Write T if it is tangible and IT

if it is intangible.

1. ____Sampaguita 6. ____Different dialect

2. ____Rizal Monument 7. ____Spolarium by Juan Luna
3. ____Ang alamat ni Maria Makiling 8. ____Panata
4. ____Si Malakas at si Maganda 9. ____Intramuros
5. ____Barot’ Saya 10. ____Independence Day

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 8

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Activity Title: Lets classify it!

Learning Target: To be able to understand the Functions of Education

Main Idea:
 Education is the social institution that formally socializes members of society, it remains
a very important support pillar in society. Education also refers to the process through
which skills, knowledge and values are transmitted from the teachers to the learners.

Examples:

Manifest Functions of Education- equips people with the knowledge and skills
needed to take on different roles that society needs; it transmits culture, skills and
values, it also teaches social control as its students respect for authority and conformity
to rules and laws; Latent Functions of Educations are venues expanding people’s
network where you can possible find a spouse, business partner, or friends that you can
keep for life, it also required collaboration and interpersonal relation with people who
you may not know you very well and who may even have contrasting opinion from
yours.

Activity:
1. Write in the sides of the school the
things you will normally learn inside
the school. Cite at least 10 examples.
2. Categorize your answers either
Manifest or Latent Functions of
Education:

Manifest Functions: Latent Functions:

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 9

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Activity Title: Mirror of Myself

Learning Target: Analyze the roles of groups and institutions as agents of social control.
Analyze the socialization, conformity and deviance

Main Idea:
 Socialization refers to a lifelong social experience by which people develop their
human potential and learn culture. Enculturation the process by which people learn the
requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the values and behaviors
appropriate or necessary in that culture. Socialization teaches impulse control and helps
individuals develop a conscience, it teaches how to prepare for and perform certain
social roles and it cultivates shared sources of meaning and value.

Examples:

In the society that I belong, I am easily recognize because of my unique

identities. Being a housewife, finance officer as well as a teacher in St. Joseph Parish
School, I have a lot of duties and responsibilities to attend, and I am very proud to say
that I can handle or managed it in a manageable way

Questions/ Exercises:

Write a short essay describing yourself, your identities, status and roles in the society.

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 10

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Activity Title: Argumentative Essay

Learning Target: Analyze the socialization, conformity and deviance

Main Idea:

Alignment is coursed through the process of socialization where members of

society starting from birth to the norms, values. Conformity is the anticipated behavior to
follow. Deviance as violations of the norms. When individuals become members of
society, they are accountable under the norms and laws of that society

Examples:

Human Rights:
Article 10: Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an
independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and
of any criminal charges against him. Deviants is a tricky issue that can’t easily identified
unlike the criminals, however both are accused in the same way, but they are not equal/
fair in terms of punishment.

Questions/ Exercises:

Write a short argumentative essay or position paper that explains and analyzes the
state of human rights in the Philippines. How does the government deal with deviants
and criminals? Do you agree with how they are treated and being punished in the
Philippines?

DAILY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET:

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 11

Name: ____________________________ Date Accomplished: _____________Score: _________

Grade & Section: __________________ Parent/ Guardian Signature: _____________________

Activity Title:

Learning Target: Identify groups within society and their functions

Main Idea:

Social group is a collection of people who regularly interact with one another on the
basis of shared expectations concerning behavior and who share a sense of common
identity. Primary Group, Secondary and Reference Group.

Small, characterized by long lasting intimate

Primary Family, Childhood friends
relationship
Secondar
Can be large or small with common interests Project Group
y
 One feels loyalty and respects for these groups;
Reference one feels antagonism and contempt for these Fraternity; Sports team
groups.
Examples:

Questions/ Exercises:

Analyze the following groups, then write the words in their appropriate categories.

1. Feminist group
Primary
2. Project group
3. Farmer’s association
Secondary
4. Bikers
5. Prayer Group
6. Student Council Reference
e
7.Facebook Group
8. Hiker’s Club
9. Protest Rally
10. One Direction Band
11. Family
12. Parish Youth Ministry

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 12

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Activity Title: Current Issues

Learning Target: Discuss and enumerate the different forms of kinship and evaluate the
political leadership that characterizes each organization.

Main Idea:

Kinship is a social institution that refers to relations formed between members of

society. The relationships developed in different ways. On birth or blood relations,
marriage or through the acceptance of rituals. To established political system where
power structures are defined to ensure that conflicts are managed. The task of
organizing a political community requires the existence of leaders. It is important to
understand how individuals have organized themselves into social and political groups
or communities.
Examples:

The Philippines is now facing the pandemic called N-Corona Virus. With this pandemic
the country faces economic crisis. Many companies closed, many are died and as of
now, still we are conquering this battle. How the government especially our president
faces the mourning of his countrymen? President Duterte tried his best to overcome this
pandemic despite of his condition. He used his power and authority to implement the
different laws to assure the protection of his nation against this threat/pandemic, i.e.
creating group of people or agency to monitor and prepare a laws and programs for the
safety of his countrymen, giving the authority to the finance department to use the
budget for the next year to give assistance, like cash and groceries to every family, and
also imposing the Dept. Of Education to continue the school year in this amidst of
pandemic. Let us support the programs of our President for our safety against this
pandemic.

Questions/ Exercises:

Write a critical essay analyzing the type of leadership of the President.

Give a particular attention on how he or she exercises authority in times of crisis.

Rubric for grading:

Quality of writing - 5pts

Grammar Usage - 3pts
Clarity of analysis of the President - 2pts
Correctness of the analysis ofDAILY
the President
LEARNING - 5ptsACTIVITY SHEET:
Total Points UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, 15 points
SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 13

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Activity Title: Identification

Learning Target: To be able to learn the different economic institutions and their
impact on the lives of people in society

Main Idea:

Economic Institutions are nonmarket institutions, market system and international trade.
Reciprocity, Transfer and Redistribution are all considered as non- market transactions
since they do not entail exchange of cash for rendering of service or provision of goods.
Market system is a type of economic system that allows the free flow of goods between
and among private individuals and firms with very limited participation from the
government, i.e. private property, freedom of enterprise and choice, self-interest,
competition, markets, and prices. International Trade enables economies to employ its
resources in ways that increase its total output, it implies the free trade that used
protectionist measures such as tariffs and quotas.
Activity:

Directions: Identify the following terms if it is Non- Market Institution, Market System
and International Trade. Write NMI for non-market institutions and MS for Market
System and IT for International Trade. The first one is done for you.

___MS_1. Self-interest _______ 9. Donation

_______ 2. Prices _______ 10. Gift giving
_______ 3. Tariff _______ 11. Prices
_______ 4. Transfers _______ 12. quota
_______ 5. Tax on imported good _______13. Exportation
_______ 6. Market transactions _______14. Freedom of choice
_______ 7. Competition _______ 15. Barter
_______ 8. Reciprocity _______ 16. Redistribution

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 14

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Activity Title: Jologs versus Coños

Learning Target: Examine the concept, characteristics and forms of stratification

systems using sociological perspectives.

Main Idea:

Patterns of unequal access to social resource are commonly called social inequality.
Social inequality reflects innate differences between individuals for example their
carrying abilities and efforts. Traditionally, wealth, power and prestige are three
important social desirables. Possession of them defines the social standing of
individuals relative to others. Social standing reflects persons’ worth and their access to
social, political and symbolic capital – in other words, their class status.

Questions/ Exercises:

Directions: Write the following missing information about the lifestyle of the jologs and
coños. The first is done for you.

Jologs Coños
1.Type of school Public School Private School/University
 2. Clothing Style
3. Food
4.CommonSickness/
disease
5. Type of hospital
6. School snacks
7. School Allowance
8. Mobile phone brands
9. Slippers
10. Shoes
11. Songs
12. Movies
13. Bags

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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 15

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Activity Title: Critical Thinking

Learning Target: To be able to evaluate the factors causing social, political and cultural
change
Main Idea:
Social, cultural and political changes are triggered by either new ideas and technologies or by
new people and cultures. People have functional as well as dysfunctional ways of responding
these changes. There are also new challenges that human communities face that require new
ways of responding. Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society, it may
include changes in nature, institutions, behavior or relations (it takes place in human interactions
and interrelations. Cultural change deals with the evolution of cultural components,
modification of a society through innovation, invention, discovery, or contact with other societies.

Activity:
Directions: Identify changes that happened in your community. Write a brief reflection
essay on how you responded to those changes, discuss how the changes affected your
life in terms of your personal aspects, family, and your community, and explain whether
these changes were positive or negative.

Rubric:
Reflection essay:
 Piece was
written in an
reflection
Quality of extraordinary
10pts
writing style, very
informative and
well-organized
Grammar No spelling,
usage and punctuation or 5pts
mechanics grammar errors
Discussion
of effects to Very Clear 10pts
personal life
Discussion
on how one
responded Very Clear 10pts
to the
changes
Total 35pts

DAILY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET:

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
QUARTER 1 WEEK 16

Name: ____________________________ Date Accomplished: _____________Score: _________

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Activity Title: Compilation of Issues

Learning Target: To understand the social, political and cultural issues in the
contemporary time.

Main Idea:

We live in changing environment. The challenges that we face as a human community

change over time, and our tools and techniques to address these challenges change.
Problems evolve and new problems emerge, our ability to respond to these problems is
altered by changing technologies and ideas. Societies can respond to change by
adapting to it in functional ways. Change can also disrupt and destabilize society and
lead to a point of conflict, tension and even violence. Some of the issues that we are
facing are Social Inequality, Gender Equality, Current state of Indigenous Cultural
Communities, and the Plight of Filipino Laborers.

Activity:
Directions: Choose at least two changes that have been discussed. Compile clippings
or internet articles about it. Create your own quotation that will summarize the social,
cultural or political issues that you have chosen.