USCP

• nation-state is a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects have the common culture. They speak the same language, have a common descent, and share common history. Having citizens with common culture, the nation-state, therefore is a major component of personal identity.
• Personal Identity is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life. Our personal identity is both cultural and political which is guided by our personal encounters or experiences.

  Manifestations of Human variations through cultural diversity, social differences, and political identities
• Culture refers to that complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and share as a member of society.
• 1. Caste is heredity endogamous social group in which a person’s rank and his/ her rights and obligations are ascribed or on her birth into a particular group.
• 1. Class is a person’s position is based upon achievement
• 1. Estate gives emphasis to birth as well as wealth and possessions
• 1. Slavery had economy basis where in the master shows power over a slave.
• Political identities is a term that describes a political approach wherein people of a particular religion, race, social background, class or other identifying factor develop political agendas and organize based upon the interlocking systems of oppression that affect their lives and come from their various identities.
• Culture

  According to Mark Banaag, culture functions in the following ways and from which we can realize the significance of culture
• Significance of Culture

  1. Adaption and Integration

  2. Patterns of Acceptable Social Behavior

  3. Human Satisfaction

  4. Production of man-made things

  5. Conveys and Facilitate Meaning
• Society

  As individuals continued to interact, societies were formed. It is a product of human social processes intended to meet basic needs for survival. Every society is organized in such a way that there are rules of conduct, customs, traditions, folkways and mores, and expectations that ensure appropriate behavior among members (Palispis 2007, p. 254).
• Significance of studying society

  1. Representation of our identity

  2. Avenue for economic inter-dependence

  3. Characterize the totality of a territory

  4. Symbol of political independence
• Politics

  Sometimes people tend to associate politics with power. This connotation was formed through man’s relationship with other people. It is struggle and a compromise between the powerful and powerless, the haves and the have-nots. There are many perceptions in politics.
• According to Richard Lazo, politics may be viewed in different ways: (please refer to the diagram)

  1. Consensus and compromise

  2. Academics

  3. Society

  4. Public affair

  5. Power & distribution of resources

  6. Art of government
• Anthropology

  Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, and societies, in both the present and past, including past human species.
• Political Science

  According to Ricardo Lazo, the primary goal of Political Science is citizenship education. It requires the students to understand and appreciate the duties and obligations of being a member of a society. Political Science includes core competencies, knowledge and skills that help learners become participative and productive members of the community
• 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 legal profession, government service, politics, teaching, and many more.
• Sociology

  According to Joseph Fichter, sociology is the scientific study of patterned, shared human behavior. It analyzes human interaction which essential in understanding man’s cultural make-up.
• It may focus its attention on all kinds of social interactions:

  1. Social Arts

  2. Social Process

  3. Social Relationship

  4. Social Structures

  5. Social Organization