UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND POLITICS

QUARTER 1
LESSON 1: ANTHROPOLOGY

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 guide Card

WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?

Good Morning learners!

Are you now ready?
I’m sure you are.
Today, we will have another
journey for the subject of
UCSP…

Why there is a black and white color among people, geographic regions like
Asian and European, religion races like Christians and Islams? Did you ever think
why we have so many races?

Today as a capstone of our discussion were going to use ANTHROPOLOGY

to unpack between race, color, and biology. In this course you will be able to
understand more what is Anthropology and its perspective.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Despite of our physical and cultural
difference,
we are one human race

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
 Articulate observations on human cultural variation,
social differences, social change, and political identities
 Identify the subjects of inquiry and goals of
Anthropology
 Explain anthropological perspective on culture.

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 WHAT DO I KNOW?

Before you start this module

let’s have first a PRE-TEST to
check if you have a prior
knowledge about our topic.

1.Came from two Greek words Anthropos (human) and Logos (study).
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science
D. Biology
2. Is the comparative study of cultural and social life.
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science
D. Biology
3. Examines the remains of ancient and historical human population to
promote an understanding of how humans adopted to their environment
and developed.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
4. Promote to study of a society’s culture through their belief system,
practices, and possessions.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
5. Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of
theories and
approaches.
A. Applied Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
6. Looks into the biological development of human and their contemporary
variation.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
7. Examine the language of a group of people and its relation to their
culture.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
8. Anthropology has a four subdivisions…
A. True B. False
9. Important method in Anthropology is …
A. Sampling B. holistic
10. The study of human beings and their ancestors through time in terms
of physical characteristics, environmental and social relations and culture

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 LESSO
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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WHAT’S IN?
Here’s a new
learning for
you!

“Anthropology is the study of human beings and their ancestors through

time in terms of physical characteristics, environmental and social relations and
culture.”
The American Anthropological Association describes anthropology as a science
seeking to “ uncover principles of behavior that apply to all human communities.”
To an anthropologist, diversity itself – seen in body shapes and size, customs,
clothing, speech, religion, and worldview.

A short definition of Anthropology may read thus, “Anthropology is the

comparative study of cultural and social life.
Its most important method is participant observation, which consist in lengthy
fieldwork in a particular social setting.

The discipline thus compare aspect of different societies, and continuously

searches for interesting dimension for comparison.
Further, the discipline emphasizes thee importance of ethnographic fieldwork,
which is a thorough close-up study of a particular social and cultural environment,
where the anthropologist need to establish rapport with theis host societies before
they can extract the life stories of people

Anthropology has many features in common with other social sciences and
humanities. Indeed, a difficult question consist in deciding whether it is a science
or one of the humanities

It has five primary subfields …PHYSICAL (looks into the biological

development of human and their contemporary variation), LINGUISTIC (examine
the language of a group of people and its relation to their culture), CULTURAL
(Promote to study of a society’s culture through their belief system, practices, and
possessions) ,APPLIED (Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the
application of theories and approaches), and ARCHEOLOGY (Examines the remains
of ancient and historical human population to promote an understanding of how
humans adopted to their environment and developed.)

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ACTIVITY Card

WHAT’S NEW?

Do you have any idea of

who they are?

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 WHAT IS IT?
DISCUSSION OF ACTIVITY 1

Biological
Question Answer and cultural
What do you see in the evolution
picture? Describe their are key
appearance and expression. concepts in
What is happening in the the study of
photo? the origin of
modern
List three things you might
infer from this picture humans.

What questions does this

Biological
photograph raise in your
mind? evolution
refer to the
Where could you find the
changes,
answer to them?
modification,
and variation in the genetics and inherited traitsof biological populations from one
generation to another. While cultural evolution refer to the changes or the
development in culture from a simple form to a more complex.

These two has something to do with Anthropology because Anthropologist

study the equal but different ways how people live in the world.

DEEPENING

How do museums serve

as venues where we can
appreciate and understand
our ancestor way of living
before?

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ENRICHMENT Card

GUIDED ACTIVITY 1
Read the statement below and identify if the statement is correct/ true
or false. Draw a Heart if the sentence is true and star if its
not.

1. Anthropology as a science seeking to “ uncover principles of behavior

that apply to all human communities.”

2. Anthropology is the comparative study of cultural and social life

3. Anthropology is the study of individual and their through time in terms

of inner characteristics, environmental and social relations and culture

4. Anthropology has five primary subfields …physical, linguistic, cultural,

applied, and archaeology

5. Anthropology most important method is participant observation, which

consist in lengthy fieldwork in a particular social setting.

GUIDED ASSESSMENT 1
Make your prediction if the diversity has something to do with
Anthropology.

Draw a if the statement is all about Anthropology and a check if its

not.
Write the correct answer on the space provided before each number.

____1. Speech

____2. Clothing

____3. Religion

____4. Customs

____5. Body shapes and sizes

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 GUIDED ASSESSMENT 2
Identify the following perspective if they are
Filipino Anthropological perspective.

LET’S
DO
THIS!

Put a check on the space provided before the number

if the statement is Filipino anthropological perspective.

______1. Niceness and pleasantness of Filipino

______2. Filial piety between parents and children.
______3. Mode of dressing
______4. Belief in Horoscope and fortune telling.
______5. Having an equal opportunity between elite class and the
poor one.
______6. Religion oriented
______7. Participating through national suffrage.
______8. Community oriented rather than family oriented
______9. The flexibility to go along
______10. The virtue of law abiding.

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 ASSESSMENT
Card

How about this one?

why don’t you try it!

Fill in the chat below to show a comparative study between Anthropology and
Sociology.

Sociology Anthropology
Focuses on social processes

Recent social science

Understand way of life, society and

culture

Complimented by anthropological
research

Originated from western

civilization(historical)

Method: particular sampling

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Reflection Card

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?

Using your own words, write at least three to five sentence

about what you have learned on this module.

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 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
POST-TEST

1.Came from two Greek words Anthropos (human) and Logos (study).
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology
2. Is the comparative study of cultural and social life.
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D.
Biology
3. Examines the remains of ancient and historical human population to promote
an understanding of how humans adopted to their environment and developed.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
4. Promote to study of a society’s culture through their belief system, practices,
and
possessions.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
5. Attempts to solve contemporary problems through the application of theories
and approaches.
A. Applied Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
6. Looks into the biological development of human and their contemporary
variation.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
7. Examine the language of a group of people and its relation to their culture.
A. Cultural Anthropology B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Physical Anthropology D. Archeology
8. Anthropology has a four subdivisions…
A. True B. False
9. Important method in Anthropology is …
A. Sampling B. holistic
10. The study of human beings and their ancestors through time in terms of
physical characteristics, environmental and social relations and culture
A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Political Science D. Biology

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 ANSWER KEY

Pre-test Guided Activity 1 Guided assessment 2

1. A 1. √
2. A 2. √
3. D 3. √
4. A 4. √
5. A 5. _
6. C Guided Assessment 1 6. √
7. B 7. √
8. B 1. 8. √
9. B 9. √
10. A 2. 10.
3.
4.
5.

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