USCP first lesson

• Studying Society

  1. Give meaning to the importance of self in relation to others

  2. Full understanding of how social groups affect thinking and behavior

  3. Acknowledges that social institutions shape and affect how we live our life and what we would become as a citizen and member of society

  4. Describes why and how we belong to a bigger global society comprised of nation-states
• Significance of studying Culture, Society, and Politics
• Cultural Being


  • Subjected to power-relations, existence, relationship, decisions, choices, rights, and privileges are limited by rules and laws of society
  • Political power inherent in the rights guaranteed and protected by the State, citizens elect leaders, pay taxes, receive welfare and support from the government as per Constitution and laws
• Media
• Social Being


  • Interact with other people, socialize, and be with the company of family, friends, neighbors, classmates, co-workers, colleagues
  • Carry ancestor's tradition and beliefs, speak the language of parents, practice faith and the distinct way of life of the community, create or showcase the arts and heritage of the people, transmit some to the next generation
• Learning Competency


  • Express observations on human cultural variation, social differences, social change, and political identities
  • Demonstrate curiosity and an openness to explore the origins and dynamics of culture and society, and political identities
  • Analyze social, political, and cultural change
• Political Being


  • Influence or affect daily life through Social Being, Political Being, Cultural Being
• Studying Politics

  Educates the importance of exercising rights and maximizing political participation to sustain, maintain, or cha
• Studying Culture

  1. Broadens perspectives on how we value our own and other's cultures

  2. Teaches value of religious tolerance, respect for people with different race, religion, gender, and political background

  3. Promotes importance of the arts, local and national heritage, oral history, cuisine, and unique life ways of people across cultures
• Why study Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science?: 'These disciplines are all under Social Sciences that deal with the study of people within social relationships, institutions, natural environment, political systems, and cultures'
• We belong to a bigger global society that is comprised of nation-states
• Research Methods in Social Sciences

  • Survey Method: used in testing hypothesis and answering research problems that need statistical analysis
  • Interview: a qualitative research method that asks questions to key informants and participants in the research
  • Field work: literally means going out to the field to do research
  • Focus group discussions (FGD): a group interview of respondents on a specific topic for discussions
• The Sociological Imagination
• Sociology


  • Systematic study of social behavior and human groups, focusing on social relationships and how they influence people's behavior, and how societies develop and change
• Political Science


  • Study of politics and power from domestic, international, and comparative perspectives
• Studying Politics

  1. Importance of exercising our rights and maximizing political participation to sustain, maintain, or change society

  2. Examination of power-relations in society and how they affect the recognition and affirmation of our identity, duties, and duties as citizens

  3. Providing a bigger context on how government works and how rules, regulations, and laws maintain social order, cohesion, and unity
• Ethnography


  • Stimulated by a willingness to view the social world from the perspective of others
  • Involves moving away from thinking in terms of the individual and their problems, focusing rather on the social circumstances that produce social problems
• Our life and what we become as a citizen and member of society are affected by how we live
• Anthropology


  • Study of human past and present to understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history