Chapter 1 Understanding Culture Society and Politics
Chapter 1 Understanding Culture Society and Politics
Chapter 1 Understanding Culture Society and Politics
Background
What changes and
developments in today’s
society can you cite?
Nation-state
A sovereign state whose citizens or
subjects have a common culture.
They speak the same language, have a
common descent, and share a common
history.
Major component of personal identity.
Personal identity
The concept you develop about
yourself that evolves over the course of
your life.
Both cultural and political guided by
personal encounters or experiences.
These personal experiences are created
by man’s interaction with his
environment.
According to David Bohm,
“Each individual already contains the
whole information field of society.
It is the whole information field, but
each individual contains that
information field in his own way.
As primary actors,we create the
type of society that we want to
have which also includes our
customs and traditions.
Cultures differ depending on the
needs of individuals.
Schwartz pointed out,
“The culture of any society
represents an adaptation or
adjustment to the various
conditions of life, including their
physical, social, and supernatural
environment.”
Banaag, 2012, p.54
People who need more will be pushed more
by their inner drives to attain something.
These drives consist of biological and
psychological drives such as cravings,
wealth, power, greatness, successes, etc.
Variations in geographical features, climatic
conditions, and historical experiences
contribute to man’s development as well as a
reference of differentiation among people
such as race, customs, and traditions.
Edward Tylor
“Culture refers to that complex whole
which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts,
morals, laws, customs, and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by man
as a member of a society.”
Culture serves as a foundation of man’s
continuing interaction with his
surroundings.
CULTURE
knowledge
beliefs
morals
CULTURE
arts
customs
laws
Symbol
of
political
independ
ence
Consensus &
Compromise
Society
Academics
Politics
Power and
Public affair distribution of
resources
Art of
government
Two things to be emphasized in describing
the characteristics of politics:
1. All questions involve the making of
common decision for a group of people,
that is, a uniform decision applying in the
same way to all members of the group.
2. All involve the use of force by one person
or a group of people to affect the behavior
of another person or group of people.
Politics
• Talks about collective decision of
individuals based on defined rules of
society.
• These rules bind people together in order
to preserve culture and improve human
life.
Politics