USCP Notes
USCP Notes
USCP Notes
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CULTURE
Complex whole which encompasses beliefs, POLITICAL IDENTITIES
practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms,
GOVERNMENT
artifacts, symbols, knowledge, &
everything that a person learns & shares as system by which a state or community is
a member of society (E.B. Tylor, 1920). controlled so as to put order.
It is a strong part of people's lives. Every country in the world is ruled by a
It influences their views, values, humor, system of governance to rule its people or
hopes, loyalties, worries and fears. constituents; and in the process people
affiliates themselves and defined their
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
political identity as they relate to other
It is a source of differences that exist peoples of the world from other countries.
between people in society and between society
in the globe due to diversity in language, dress PHILIPPINES
and traditions, food preferences, etc. is a republic with a presidential form of
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION government wherein power is equally divided
among three branches:
Categorizes groups of people into a
hierarchy on the basis of wealth, status, or EXECUTIVE - carries out & enforces laws.
power. (President, Vice President, cabinet,
executive departments, independent
STRUCTURE OF CLASS SYSTEM agencies, boards, commissions &
Upper Class committees)
Middle Class LEGISLATIVE -authorized to make laws,
Lower Class alter & repeal through the power vested in
the Philippine Congress (Senate - 24
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION senators & House of Representatives-250)
JUDICIAL - holds the power to settle
Describes the relative social position of
controversies involving rights that are
persons in a given social group, category,
legally demandable & enforceable.
geographical region or other social unit.
TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDYING CULTURE,
SOCIETY & POLITICS
Are families who live apart but who
create and retain a "sense of collective welfare Social Science is a very complex study. It is
& unity (familyhood) even across borders divided into different areas according to
(Bryceson & Vuorela 2002) focus or subject.
In this subject, a special focus on the
interplay of Anthropology (culture),
Sociology (society), and Political Science
(political identities and government) will be
given focus with the use of trans-
disciplinary perspective to understand &
explain social issues in the human society.
biography within society. In sociological
ANTHROPOLOGY imagination,
Is the holistic ”science of man”, a HISTORY means what is happening or the
science of the totality of human existence. events in time while