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Understanding Cultural Backgrounds

This document discusses the concepts of culture, society, politics, and personal identity. It defines culture as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, and customs acquired by people as members of a society. Society is formed through human interaction and allows people to live communally. Politics involves collective decision making based on societal rules, which bind people together to preserve culture and improve life. Studying these concepts provides an understanding of how they shape personal identity and the conditions of a nation.

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Understanding Cultural Backgrounds

This document discusses the concepts of culture, society, politics, and personal identity. It defines culture as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, and customs acquired by people as members of a society. Society is formed through human interaction and allows people to live communally. Politics involves collective decision making based on societal rules, which bind people together to preserve culture and improve life. Studying these concepts provides an understanding of how they shape personal identity and the conditions of a nation.

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Man’ Social and

Cultural Background
JEN KHETTLE V. EMPAMANO
SHS Teacher
In your notebook, answer the following
questions.

1.Discuss the relevance of politics in understanding the


conditions of your society.
2.In a short blog (written or vblog) answer the question.
a. How would you define the situation of our politics
in our nation today?
*for a written blog: words must contain a minimum of
400 words; vlog not exceeding to 1 minute video.
Express your answer in English language.
“Change is the only permanent
thing in this world.”
-Heraclitus
Nation-state
is a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects
have a common culture.
they speak the same language, have a
common descent, and share common history.
citizens with common culture, the nation-state
(major component of personal identity)
Personal Identity
the concept you develop about
yourself that evolves over the course
of your life.
is both cultural and political which is
guided by our personal encounters
or experiences.
Culture
refers to that complex whole which
includes knowledge, beliefs, arts
morals, laws, customs, and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by
man as a member of society.
(Edward B. Taylor)
serves as a foundation of man’s
continuing interaction with his
surroundings. People develop a
culture of their own out of their
learnings and experiences from their
environmental exposure
(Banaag, 2012 p 46)
Significance of
Studying Culture,
Society and
Politics
Culture functions in the following
ways (Mark Banaag)
1. Culture makes it possible for
man to adapt and integrate
himself to his environment by
being creative and resourceful in
coming up with ways and means
of survival.
2. Culture establishes patterns of
acceptable social behavior such
as etiquette , protocols, good
manners and right conduct, roles
and duties, etc. as established by
folkways, mores, and laws.
3. Culture conveys and facilitates
meanings through verbal and
non-verbal communication,
written and non-written
language, forms of expression
and symbolisms.
4. Culture produces man-made
things such as clothing, tools,
instruments, machines,
equipment, structures, etc. made
possible by technological know-
how.
5. Culture contributes to overall
human satisfaction as well as
develop ways to make life more
enjoyable, more comfortable,
easier, and more rewarding such as
recreational activities, leisure
entertainment and arts.
Society
as individuals continued to
interact, societies were formed.
it is a product of human social
processes intended to meet
basic needs for survival
Society is an important product of human
interaction and interconnectedness. It
symbolizes the group within which human
beings can live a total common life – the peer
groups, social organizations like the family and
kinship groups, economic, political, religious
and educational groups; and communities.
(Panopio et. al., 1994, p 141)
Studying society provides us an idea on its
importance in creating an equal, just, and
humane society.
Politics
Sometimes people tend to
associate politics with power.
This connotation was formed
through man’s relationship with
other people.
politics talks about collective
decision of individuals based on
defined rules of society. These
rules bind people together in
order to preserve culture and
improvement of human life.
According to Haque

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