DLP 1 - Culture, Society and Politics

• Nation State - A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects have a common culture. Speak the same language, have a common descent and share a common history.
• Personal Identity - is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life.
• Culture – refers to that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as member of society. Serves as a foundation of man’s continuing interaction with his surroundings. Knowledge, Laws, Beliefs, Customs, Arts and Morals.
• Anthropology – is the branch of knowledge which deals with the scientific study of man, his works, his body, his behavior and values, in time and space
• Political Science – is a systematic study of a state and its government, with the relationships of men in the community, with relations of men and groups to the state itself.
• Sociology – is the scientific study of patterned, shared human behaviour.
• According to Haque politics is: Collective Activity, Initial Diversity of views, Reconciliation of Differences, and Authoritative policy.
• Knowledge Based - It provides the students the knowledge and understanding of a government, with all its component curricula like public law, political theory, public administration, political philosophy and political dynamics.
• Competence Based - Inculcates the objectives and underlying principles of the state that should be abided by the officials and its citizens.
• Skills Based - Prepares the students for future career path, be it in legal profession, government service, politics, teaching and many more.
• Social Interaction - Social Processes, Social Arts, Social Relation Hips, Social Organization, Social Structure.
• Significance of Culture - Adaptation and integration, patterns of acceptable social behavior, conveying and facilitating meaning, production of man-made things and human satisfaction.
• Significance of Society - Representation of our identity, Characterize the totality of a territory, Symbol of political independence, Avenue for economic.
• Significance of Politics - Consensus and compromise, Society, Power and distribution of resources, Art of government, Public affair, Academics.