UCSP Week 1 2025 Culture PDF

UCSP WEEK 1 CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS CONCEPTS? THEY EXIST IN THE LAND OF IDEAS AND THOUGHTS. THEY CANNOT BE SEEN OR TOUCHED AND YET INFLUENCE THE WAY WE SEE AND EXPERIENCE OUR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE SOCIAL BEINGS. CREATED AND HAVE A FIRM HOLD OF A PHENOMENON ALLOW US TO FORM OTHER...

UCSP WEEK 1 CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS CONCEPTS? THEY EXIST IN THE LAND OF IDEAS AND THOUGHTS. THEY CANNOT BE SEEN OR TOUCHED AND YET INFLUENCE THE WAY WE SEE AND EXPERIENCE OUR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE SOCIAL BEINGS. CREATED AND HAVE A FIRM HOLD OF A PHENOMENON ALLOW US TO FORM OTHER CONCEPTS OR RELATE CONCEPTS TO EACH OTHER OR EVEN ANALYZE OLD ONES AND REPLACE THEM WITH SOMETHING NEW. Social Beings CATEGORIES THAT WE POSSESS AS INDIVIDUALS , LABELS THAT WE ARE ASCRIBED OR GIVEN TO US INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY CATEGORIES AS MALE / FEMALE , RICH/POOR , TALL/SHORT AND EVEN THE PROBLEMATIC AFFECT OF THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN. SOCIALITY IS DEFINED BY THE VERY CATEGORIES THAT WE POSSESS, ASSIGNED TO US BY THE SOCIETY AT LARGE. CATEGORIES THAT WE POSSESS ARE NOT NATURAL; RATHER THEY ARE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED. CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS “ANTHROPOLOGY HAS HUMANITY AS ITS SUBJECT OF RESEARCH, BUT UNLIKE THE OTHER HUMAN SCIENCE, IT TRIES TO GRASP ITS OBJECT THROUGH ITS MOST DIVERSE MANIFESTATIONS”  IDENTITY - THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS THAT DEFINES AN INDIVIDUAL OR IS SHARED BY THOSE BELONGING TO A PARTICULAR GROUP, VALUES – PERSON’S OR A COLLECTIVITY PRINCIPLE OR STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR. BELIEFS – SOMETHING ONE ACCEPTS AS TRUE OR REAL , TAKES THE FORM OF FIRMLY HELD OPINION OR CONVICTION. CULTURE : THE WORD CULTURE ORIGINATES FROM THE LATIN “COLERE” WHICH MEANS TO CULTIVATE. CULTURE – THE ACQUIRED COGNTIVE AND SYMBOLIC ASPECT OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. SOCIETY –REFERS TO THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF HUMAN LIFE, PATTERNS OF INTERACTION AND POWER RELATIONSHIP. ASPECTS OF CULTURE: IT IS LEARNED , BECAUSE CULTURE IS ACQUIRED BY BEING BORN INTO A PARTICULAR SOCIETY IN THE PROCESS OF ENCULTURATION. CULTURE IS SYMBOLIC IN THE SENSE THAT IT RENDERS MEANING TO WHAT PEOPLE DO, BELIEFS, RELIGION, RITUAL, MYTHS, DANCES ARTWORK AND SO ON, ARE MEANINGFUL HUMAN EXPRESSIONS OF WHAT PEOPLE DO AND HOW THEY ACT. INTEGRATED WHOLE THAT MAKES SOCIETY WORK, SYSTEM OF MEANINGS AND MANY OTHER FACETS OF CULTURE SUCH AS KUNDRED , RELIGION, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES,INHERITANCE AND POLITICAL PROCESS DO NOT FUNCTION IN ISOLATION.  CULTURE IS SHARED WITHIN EXCLUSIVE DOMAIN OF SOCIAL RELATIONS. ALL ENCOMPASSING NATURE OF CULTURE , AROUND THE WORLD PEOPLE AS MEMBERS OF THEIR OWN SOCIETIES ESTABLISH CONNECTIONS WITH EACH OTHER AND FORM RELATIONSHIP GUIDED BY THEIR PERSPECTIVE CULTURAL PRACTICES AND VALUES. The problem of ETHNOCENTRISM : From Greek term ETHNOS meaning a people. Evaluating other people from one’s own vantage pointand describing them in one’s own term. One,s own ethnos including cultural values is literally placed at the centre. Ethnocentric bias Cultural relativism is sometimes posited as the opposite of ethnocentrism. The doctrine that societies or culture are qualitatively different and have their own unique inner logic. POLITICS “ A HUMAN BEING IS A POLITICAL ANIMAL ; HE IS NOT HUMAN BUT A BEAST OR A GOD IF HE CAN LIVE OUTSIDE THE STATE” –ARISTOTLE  “AFFAIRSOF THE STATE” –MICHAEL OAKESHOTT AFFAIRS WHICH DO NOT BELONG TO THE STATE ARE NOT POLITICAL  “POLITICS AS THE AUTHORITATIVE ALLOCATION OF VALUES IN THE SOCIETY” –DAVID EASTON- TO EASTON AN ALLOCATION OF VALUES THAT IS NOT AUTHORITATIVE IS NOT POLITICAL AND IN SOCIETY IT IS THE STATE THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ALLOCATE VALUES  “POLITICS ANY ACTIVITY INVOLVING HUMAN BEINGS ASSOCIATED TOGETHER IN RELATIONSHIP OF POWER AND AUTHORITY WHERE CONFLICT OCCURS.” – ROBERT DAHL-  SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY DERIVED FROM TWO GREEK WORDS ANTHROPOS AND LOGOS ( HUMAN AND THOUGHT OR REASONS) CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF ALL SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCINCE SOCIOLOGY – STUDY OF SOCIETY , SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP. SOCIOLOGY IS INTERESTED IN DESCRIBING AND EXPLAINING HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITHIN A SOCIAL CONTEXT. SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: POLITICAL SCIENCE: POLITICS IS ASSOCIATED WITH HOW POWER IS GAINED. ALLIED WITH GOVERNMENT WHICH IS CONSIDERED AS THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY. POLITICS IS SCIENCE, COMMONLY DEFINED AS THE KNOWLEDGE DERIVED FROM EXPERIMENT AND OBSERVATION SYSTEMATICALLY DONE. Google forms Google classroom USE THE DIAGRAM TO SHOW HOW A PERSON EXPERIENCES CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE SOCIETY PERSON POLITICS CULTURE