Core Subject Title:: Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Core Subject Title: Understanding Culture,
Society and Politics

Course Description:
This course uses insights from Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology to
develop students’ awareness of cultural, social and political dynamics, and
sensitivity to cultural diversity; provide them with an understanding of how
culture, human agency, society and politics work; and engage them in the
examination of the country’s current human development goals. At the end of
the course, students should acquire ideas about human cultures, human
agency, society and politics; recognize cultural relativism and social
inclusiveness to overcome prejudices; and develop social and cultural
competence to guide their interactions with groups, communities, networks,
and institutions.
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LESSON 1
Man’s Nature and Social
Identity
1. Man as a Biological Being
2. Man as a Rational Being
3. Man as a Social Being
4. Man as a Cultural Being
5. Man as a Political Being
6. Man as a Being of Divine Creation
Man as a Biological Being
• Man has a similarity on the physical and
physiological characteristics like those of
the brutes.
A later scientific theory on man as a biological being is the
Synthetic Theory or Neo-Darwinism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSNtaQKOAk
Charles Darwin
Man as a Rational Being
 Man’s thinking and rational capability spring out of his mental and intellectual
endowment.
 It also enables him to develop diverse intellectual capabilities and mental processes
such as:
- memory - comparisons
- comprehension - differentiations
- perception - understanding
 It enables him to develop and apply his higher level of psychological process such as:
- reasoning both inductive and deductive - analytical thinking
- formulation of conclusions and generalizations - problem solving
- decision making - inferring
- creative thinking - theorizing
Man as a Social Being
• Human behavior can only be adequately understood by
looking into the relationship of man with other members
of the society.
• He is always in the company of others and never in
isolation from birth to death
• Man associates and interacts with other social beings in
different social settings in order to satisfy his varied needs.
Thus, how and why he behaves in a certain way is greatly
influenced by the norms, values, ethics, expectations,
prescriptions and proscriptions.
Man as a Cultural Being
• Man manifests the cultural behavior of his particular
social group.
• Man also learns the habits, skills and abilities necessary
for his survival and the application of these capabilities
in the utilization of his natural and artificial man-made
environment.
• Man exhibits behavioral pattern in a fairly uniform
manner with others in the group because of their
mutual understanding.
Man as a Political Being
Man as a Political Being
• Although by nature man loves freedom, he is cognizant
of the fact that unrestrained or uncontrolled freedom
results to anarchy and conflict
• Man acquires certain political status and corresponding
political role in a political power-relation such as being
a company president or a janitor.
• As long as there is some sort of social organization,
inequality, conflict of interest and exercise of authority,
then politics will be at work
Man as a Being of Divine Creation
• Man as a being of Divine Creation is perceived to be
a spiritual being in a physical body. The philosophical
foundation of such a belief is found in religious
writing such as the Bible, Koran and the like.
• This belief that a soul or spirit dwells in a human
being is also embraced by theists all over the world
as shown in the belief in reincarnation where upon
the death of a person his soul transfers to another
being – a human being or a lower form of animal.
physiological
• structural information of the human body
endowment
• a quality or ability possessed by someone
proscriptions
• act of forbidding something
utilization
• act of practical use
cognizant
• knowledgeable of something
theist
• A person who believes in the existence of God

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