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Understanding Culture, Society and Politics – Grade 11

Quarter 1 – Module 3: Studying Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology
Understanding Culture Society and Politics – Garde 11
Quarter 1 – Module 2: Significance of Studying Culture, Society and
Politics
First Edition, 2020

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 Understanding
Culture, Society, and
Politics
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Quarter 1
Self-Learning Module 2
Significance of Studying Culture,
Society, and Politics
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics Grade 11

Self-Learning Module on Significance of Studying Culture, Society, and Politics!

This Self-Learning Module collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed

by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its Officer-in-
Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin, in
partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor, Honorable Victor
Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
using Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in developing this instructional
resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills, especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character, while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the primary text material, you will also see this box in the
module's body:

Notes to the Teacher

This material contains helpful tips or
strategies that will help you in guiding the
learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics Self-Learning

Module on Significance of Studying Culture, Society, and Politics!

This module provides a fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and
independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process the
contents of the learning material while being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

In this lesson, the students expected to:

a. Define culture, society, and politics.
b. Illustrate the relationship between culture, society, and politics.
c. Enumerate the importance of studying culture, society, and politics.

PRETEST

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and

symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are
passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.

a. culture c. politics
b. society d. community

2. It defined as a group of people who share a common economic, social, and

industrial infrastructure. It is also an organization of people who share a
common cultural and social background.

a. community c. society
b. culture d. politics

3. It is the way that people living in groups make decisions, making agreements
between people so that they can live together in groups such as tribes, cities,
or countries.
a. politics c. culture
b. community d. society

4. The study of politics is related to Political Science, while _________ is to

Sociology.
a. society c. community
b. culture d. politics

5. Complete the title of the topic of the module Significance of Studying

____________, Society, and Politics.
a. culturation c. cultural
b. cult d. culture
 RECAP

LET’S GO BACK TO BASIC!

Directions: Identify the words being described by looking at the pictures.

Write your answer on the space after each number.

FOUR PICTURE TWO WORDS

1._______________ 2. ______________ 3. _______________

________________ _______________ _______________
https://www.google.com/search?q=pacquiao&hl=fil&sxsrf=ALeKk03tbPmmSzozsC8rqY0958Ipy4XRH
Q:1594449406725&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj73f_zysTqAhVLfd4KHTppDmkQ_A
UoAXoECBcQAw&biw=1366&bih=625#imgrc=qyoZoioPNcusTM

LESSON

Hi there! Did the RECAP give you a hard time in identifying our previous
lesson? Our lesson for this module has something to do with the last one. In this
module, you will understand the significance of studying Culture, Society, and
Politics. Let’s find out!

What is the significance of studying culture? If you want a broader scope or

perspective of the backgrounds, it is essential to research culture. Culture is the
invisible bond that binds people altogether. Let us take a quote from Mahatma
Gandhi. He said that "A nation's culture resides in the heart and the souls of its
people." It is indeed an excellent quote to understand the culture.
 Studying culture makes you understand more about people's reasoning,
beliefs, and ideas. How you perceive things is mostly affected by our judgment skills.
Culture affects perceptions. Perceptions drive behavior. Therefore, the culture where
we belong has a direct impact on our behavior.

EWWS! DO
FILIPINO EAT THIS
STUFF??

https://www.buzzfeed.com/isabellel4eae92a8d/46-thoughts-a-first-time-balut-eater-has-had-13h82

The picture on the top showcase one of the finest foods of the Filipino Culture,
the balut! (duck embryo) Imagine a foreigner eating such food.

Eating balut is just one of the ways that give us Filipino identity, and helps
build our character as a nation. Why? It's just simple. Ask someone from your friends
to describe what foods identified quickly with the Filipino. Well, we are very sure that
balut will undoubtedly be on that list. Studying culture helps us to understand our
past, our place in the world, and our future, thereby allowing us to make better
decisions in the present. It helps us to understand ourselves because we all come
from a common source.

We can all attributed a person’s social behavior by the society where they
belong.

Society is an organized structure that we humans made to create synergy

(accomplish things that no individual can do). It provides a safer environment than
we would naturally have (the wilderness) since most of us will not survive much less
thrive in such a harsh environment. Since we can say that society is critical to human
life, we need institutions to ensure our communities work.

Studying society is significant because it provides a system of stratification,

and means of social participation. It encourages you to think sociologically.
(stimulate sociological imagination) An example is when everybody thinks joining the
call for protest is correct even though you haven't seen or known why such a thing
happened. Studying society will also provide you with the skills to craft critical
questions about taken-for-granted communities.
 Government and Politics is a fantastic A-Level that has shown us just how
high an influence Politics has on us and has broken the illusion that we are
disconnected from it.

Aside from the enormous benefits that this course brings in understanding
the events around us, here are some of the significance of studying politics:

1. Politics helps you know your rights. Studying politics has allowed us to see
beyond our initial belief that we have no real say in running our country. In
the 1987 Constitution Article III or the Bill of Rights, section 4 says it all. It
has genuinely educated us on a fundamental part of our society. It has helped
us understand that if we engage in political processes, using the pressure
points built into the system, every individual can change the world.

2. Politics clarify what you believe. Studying the things we have reviewed has
allowed us to discover our own political beliefs and see in much greater detail
the benefits and disadvantages of the vast array of political ideologies present
today. Being able to express what you believe accurately and concisely is
extremely useful, and forces you to look at yourself!

3. Politics is a living, breathing subject. In Politics, textbooks go out of date

the day they are published. Why? Because the political landscape changes
every day, with new examples continually appearing in the media. Picking
which examples to use in your answers to essay questions is as exciting as
something that has happened on the day you are taking your A-Level exams
can appear in your response!

4. Politics helps you to understand our nation's parties.

After just one term of the subject, we have learned about democracy and our
rights, ideologies, party policies, the Constitution, and government branches. With
the knowledge gained from the classroom, we have been able to watch events unfold
worldwide, have seen our leaders' reactions to these events, and understand these
reactions as demonstrations of what we have learned. And lastly, politics prepares
you for adult life.

Politics opens up student’s curiosity as they age, with the vote giving us the ability
to change our nation and allow the principles we hold dear to thrive. With this in
mind, it could easily mean that Government and Politics is the most applicable
subject on offer at any senior high school. It is a subject that students should be
encouraged to take due to nothing less than the way it prepares you for entering the
adult world.

For that end, culture and government are the leading institutions that keep our
society together. Culture preserves the wisdom in the traditions and practices we
inherit from our ancestors while the government organizes the nation with the use
of laws.

Thus far, I have mentioned society, culture, and government but not politics. That
is because politics is for the community, a subset of government. Politics aim to
idealize models of governing the people and resources of society for security and well-
being.
So how do culture, society and politics are interrelated?

Let us remember that culture influences the daily state of society and its
direction of development. At the same time, politics determines the nature and form
of culture and has the function of transforming it. Therefore, politics has a decisive
role in deciding which direction the culture is going to develop. Culture is the basis
for shaping social normalcy and development.

Politics only fundamentally changes this foundation, while culture reflects its
reality and internality. It has nurtured human social characters, such as nationality,
people's general personality characteristics and customs, and habits. However,
culture and politics are influencing and interacting with each other. While politics
determines culture, culture also subtly influences politics.

Culture affects society because culture shapes the human nature of people in
the community, casts people's world outlook, outlook on life, and values; social
customs and ethical morality gradually formed in the process of cultural influence.

"Culture is the values, beliefs, and concepts shared by members of society.

These values, ideas, and attitudes are formed mainly through the environment,
religion, and the adoption of child-rearing practices, religious practices, education
systems, media, and the accidental historical factors that passed down from their
peers.

"The impact of culture on society is in all aspects, from the formulation and
implementation of policies and laws; the formation of social ideologies and customs,
the status of interpersonal relationships, while the smaller ones involve the shaping
of individual personalities and the establishment of ideological concepts, behavioral
performance and so on.

Generally, a culture will affect the status, direction, and speed of a society's
activities. When culture succeeds in shaping society's customs, then the customs
and habits of this society will educate and influence people's ideas, behaviors, and
personalities; therefore, there will be such things as Tocqueville. The idea that as
greater social justice is achieved, there may be more intense opposition to even
smaller social injustices than before. This phenomenon was said to have occurred.

The impact of culture on the path of social evolution is crucial to reducing

poverty and injustice throughout the world. It is also a critical factor in foreign policy.
 ACTIVITIES

WE’RE ALMOST THERE!

After discussing the significance of studying culture, society, and politics, we

have some exercise to better understand the topic.

ACRONAME
Directions: Write down your NAME/NICKNAME on the space below. Think of a
word from a letter of your name related to culture, society, and politics.

____-________________________________________________________

____-________________________________________________________

____-________________________________________________________

____-________________________________________________________

____-________________________________________________________

WRAP-UP

WAIT THERES MORE!

Directions: Culture is the heart and soul of a nation. Not to mention the people who
reside therein. As for society, it has to learn more about how to value their culture.
Politics give us the will to implement such a change.

Compose a quote about the significance of studying culture, society and

politics.

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________
 VALUING

Directions: What can you say about the government’s initiative in addressing the
COVID 19 Pandemic? Was it a political action? Does our society lack discipline? Or
the Filipino Culture is used to such a problem?

____________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

POSTTEST

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. The examples below are the significance of studying politics except ___________

a. encourage c. breathing subject

b. prepares d. accepting reality

2. Politics clarify your rights. What article in the 1987 Constitution discusses
about Rights?

a. Article I c. Article III

b. Article II d. Article IV

3. According to Mahatma Gandhi, a nation’s __________ resides in the heart and

the souls of its people
a. politics c. culture
b. community d. society

4. Filipino culture showcases different concept except ________________

a. food c. music
b. clothing d. discipline
 5. Complete the title of the topic of the module _______________ of Studying of
Culture, Society, and Politics.
a. Comprehensive c. Essential
b. Significance d. Immediate

KEY TO CORRECTION

5.d 5.b

4.a 4.d
3.a 3.c
2.c 2.c
1.a 1.d
PRE TEST POST TEST

References
Book
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics The Padayon Series
Antonio P. Contreras, Arleigh Ross D. dela Cruz PhD
Phoenix Publishing House

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Mariano M. Ariola
Unlimited Books Library Services & Publishing House

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https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-culture-society-and-politics

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-relationship-of-culture-society-and-politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America