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This document outlines the course content and objectives for an Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics class at La Salle College in the Philippines. The course aims to help students understand how culture and society interact and develop sensitivity to cultural diversity. Over the quarter, students will learn about pre-colonial and colonial Philippine society, cultural aspects like norms and traditions, and how groups and institutions like family organize society. Students will be evaluated based on written work, exams, and a performance task, with the overall goal of engaging with issues of human development and overcoming prejudices through cultural awareness.

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Course Outline - UCSP

This document outlines the course content and objectives for an Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics class at La Salle College in the Philippines. The course aims to help students understand how culture and society interact and develop sensitivity to cultural diversity. Over the quarter, students will learn about pre-colonial and colonial Philippine society, cultural aspects like norms and traditions, and how groups and institutions like family organize society. Students will be evaluated based on written work, exams, and a performance task, with the overall goal of engaging with issues of human development and overcoming prejudices through cultural awareness.

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La Salle College Victorias

Paz Avenue, Canetown Subdivision, Victorias City, Negros Occidental

Senior High School


First Quarter, Second Semester, A.Y. 2017 2018

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Course Outline

I. Objectives: At the end of the first quarter, the students will be able to:

1. Elevate awareness of cultural and social dynamics, and sensitivity to cultural diversity;
2. Thoroughly understand of how culture, human agency, and society work and interact;
3. Engage in the examination of the countrys current human development goals;
4. Acquire ideas about human cultures, human agency, and society; and
5. Recognize cultural relativism and social inclusiveness to overcome prejudices

II. Course Content:

A. Introduction to Culture and Society

1. The Relationship Between Culture and Society

Characteristics of culture
Differences of culture and society

2. Culture and Society building through history

a. Pre-colonial society

Tribal System
Nomadic System
Hierarchy of the ruling class

b. Colonial Stage

Spanish Colonial Society


American Colonial Society
Japanese Occupation

3. The Aspects of Culture

a. Cultural Variation (Dynamism and Adaptability)


b. Culture as a system of Norms and Laws;
c. Custom vs. Tradition

B. The Composition of Society

1. The Society as Whole

a. Self-Integration into Society (Enculturation)


b. Values
c. Statuses and Roles
d. Conformity and Deviance

Social Control
i. Laws and Punishment;
ii. Ostracism; and
iii. Gossip

Deviance
i. Rebellion;
ii. Innovation;
iii. Retreatism; and
iv. Ritualism

e. The Common and Collective good

2. How a Society is Organized

a. Groups in a society

In groups and Out groups


Reference Groups
Networks
b. Status and Rank in the Society

Factors affecting or determining status in the society


Loss and Gain of status

c. Institutions

Kinship
i. By Blood
ii. By Marriage
iii. By Ritual
Household
i. The Family
ii. Kinds of Family Structures
iii. Factors that Affect Family Ties

III. Grading System

Written Work (Quizzes, Assignments, and Long Quizzes)..30%


Quarterly Examination....30%
Performance Task......40%
TOTAL...100%

Prepared by:
Louem G. Garceniego
Subject Teacher

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