Exploration of Prior Knowledge

Exploration of Prior Knowledge
Pre-test: This activity will enable you to assess your prior knowledge from the topic
that will be discussed in this lesson.
Directions: Fill in the K-W-H-L Chart below to assess your prior knowledge and
understanding
about The Social Sciences: Sociology, Anthropology, And
Political Science
What I Want to How I Can Learn
What I Know What I Have Learned
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Skills I expect to use:
PROCESS QUESTIONS/ FOCUS QUESTIONS:
Below are the key guide questions that you should remember as you perform all
the activities in this lesson. You should be able to answer them at the end of the
week.
1. How do social forces influence the life chances of the members of society?
2. How are Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science related to each other?
3. How do Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science influence our society?
SHORT EXERCISES/DRILLS:
Directions: There are so many changes that are happening in our life today due to
COVID-19 Pandemic. Let us analyse these changes and realize how
these changes affects the society and your life as a student by listing the
changes on some aspects of your life on the table below.
Before COVID-19 During COVID-19
Pandemic Pandemic
Way of Life
Priorities in life
Relationships with
others
Question: Can you consider these changes as example of social change?
Why or why not?
CONTENT DISCUSSION:
In this lesson, you will be able to widen your knowledge about the three major fields of social
sciences namely: Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science and deepen your understanding about
culture which is the main focus of this part of the module.
A lot of us are likely confused with the difference between sociology and anthropology. Confusion
might come from their commonalities as the two are dealing with society and culture. Both of them study
human behavior and the different factors that affects our social relations. Since these two fields are most
likely similar to each other, let us first draw out its differences.
Below and on the next pages of this module, we will tackle each of these social sciences and to find
out the differences between anthropology and sociology, let us study the similar and various concepts
between each field below.
Society in its broader sense involves social (i.e., actions and interactions),
cultural (i.e., practices and traditions) and political (i.e., power relations) realities. As
formal and systematic studies of society, these three facets are referred to as the
“social sciences”, also known in academia as “disciplines”. These disciplines change
a person’s perspective and they share a common goal: to understand the “social”
Sociology
Cultural Social
Practice Forces
Faces
of the
Social
and to explore how it drives the unfolding of society as we know it.
Culture , Society and Politics as Conceptual Tools

 Culture, society, and politics are concepts. They exist in the realm of ideas and
thoughts.
 They cannot be seen or touched and yet they influence the way we see and
experience our individual and collective lives as social beings.
 Pierce- describes a concept as “the rational purport of a word or a
conception”.
 What interesting about concepts is that as conceptual tools, they allow us to
Anthropology
form other concepts, Political
or relate concepts to each other or even deconstruct old
Power
ones and replace them with something new. This is the reason whyScience Weber
admitted that concept is one of the great toolsRelations
all scientific knowledge.
Social Dynamics: Social, Political, and Cultural Change
Scenario Phenomenon
1. Taking selfies is Alyssa’s preoccupation. It became a habit Selfieing
when her parents gave her a phone on her birthday.
The social as the emerging point of the sociological,
2. Kaitan Tim is the incumbent mayor of the City Amin-Amin. Political Dynasty
anthropological, and political relations
His son Timmy Jr. Is currently running for the congressional
seat of the district, a position occupied by his mother Cong.
Valencia for about three consecutive terms.
3.Amina, a college student, is living alone in Manila. Both of Transnational
her parents are OFWs working in the Middle East. She visits families
them every summer break.
4.As a youth volunteer, Verna finds the rainy season a busy Youth volunteerism
season due to the frequency of typhoon related disasters.
Sometimes she even spends her own money to buy relief
goods for typhoon victims.
5.Michael almost missed the chance to finish high school Video gaming
because he had been absent most of the time playing mobile
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Culture , Society and Politics as Conceptual Tools

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