COURSE

DESCRIPTION
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 This course uses lessons or insights from different
social sciences branches (Anthropology, Political
Science, and Sociology) to develop students’
awareness of cultural diversity and provide them
with an understanding of how culture, human
agency, society, and politics work
CULTURE
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 CULTURE
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 It is defined as the custom beliefs, social forms, and
traits that defines a specific racial, religious, or social
group
 CULTURE
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1. Religion
2. Race
3. Socio-economic Status
4. Sexual Orientation
5. Age
6. Ethnicity
7. Gender
8. Education
9. Generation
10. Nationality
 CULTURE
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 Material Culture – it is a type of culture that are
created by human person or is tangible. Examples
are food, clothing, and technology

 Non-Material Culture – it is a type of culture that

are being learned or observed by human. Examples
are religions, folk, behaviour, gestures, and customs.
SOCIETY
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 SOCIETY
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 Comes from the Lain word “socious” which mean
comrade, companion or friend

 Pertains to a group of individuals involved in social

interaction or sharing the same geographical or
social territory
POLITICS
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 POLITICS
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 Comes form the Greek word “Politika” which means
affairs of the cities

 Refers to achieving and exercising positions of

governance over a human community
Objectives of the Lesson
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 Identify the differences between the idea of “Sex”
and “Gender”
 Understand the concept of human cultural
variations, social differences, social change, and
political identities in terms of function and role on
different kinds of Gender
 Examines the current issues regarding Gender and
Development
 THE DIFFERENCE
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SEX GENDER

1. Biologically 1. Socio-physiological
determined 2. Culture-bound
2. Universal 3. Inter-changeable
3. Relatively fixed 4. Categorized as
4. Categorized as boy or masculine and
girl feminine
 Human Cultural
Variation
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Refers to the differences in social behaviours that
different cultures exhibit around the world

On the aspect of Gender:

 Social Differences
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 The differences among the individuals on the basis
of social characteristics and qualities.

 On the aspect of Gender:

Gender Stereotyping: are simplistic

generalizations about the gender attributes, differences,
and roles of individuals and/or groups.
Gender Strerotype in the
Philippines
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MEN WOMEN
 Provides financial  Takes care of the house
support and children
 Works as managers,  Work as teachers,
construction builders, nurse, secretary
engineers, etc.  Portrayed as followers
 Portrayed as leaders
 Social Change
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 Refers to an alteration in the social order of a society
 Social Change
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 Refers to an alteration in the social order of a society
on the aspect of Gender
 Definition of Terms in
LGBTQIA
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 Lesbian – is a female homosexual; a female who
experiences romantic love or sexual attraction to
other females.
 Gay – is a male homosexual; a male who experiences
romantic love or sexual attraction to other males.
 Bisexual – a person who is attracted to both people
of their own gender and another gender. Also called
“bi”.
 Transgender – denoting or relating to a person
whose self-identity does not conform
unambiguously to conventional notions of male or
female gender.
 Definition of Terms in
LGBTQIA
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 Queer – an alternative that some people use to
“queer” the idea of the labels ad categories such as
lesbian, gay, bisexual, etc.
 Intersex – a person whose sexual anatomy or
chromosomes do not fit with the traditional markers
of “female” and “male”
 Asexual – a person who generally does not feel
sexual attraction or desire to any group of people.