SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION ( WRIGHT MILLS) an awareness of the

relationship between an individual and the wider society both today and
in the past
CULTURE
SOCIETY
POLITICS
Environment??

History??
Nationality ???
As a group of people who share the same history..customs and traditions
FilipinosChineseArabsAmericansetc
Male, Female
GENDER???
Religion ???
The belief of supernaturalit is the mirror of the society that affiliates with it
EXCEPTIONALITY/NON-EXCEPTIONALITY
People with non-average capacity : geniuses
People with disability and those physically challenge individuals
Culture, Society and Politics
They are conceptsa product of mind..ideas
They are used to explain complexities of:
Culture is the way of living anthropologists;
Society is the product of human interactions sociologists
Politics is the interaction between the civil society and the government (A.Boyer)
political scientists
EXERCISE NO. 1 socioeconomic
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/humanities/book/2society.htm
Textbook URL: http://www.umn.edu/home/jewel001/humanities/book/0contents
Questions:
1. How do you feel and how do others feel around you?
2. Does your group seem to be more talkative or less so than other groups? Why?
3. How did your group choose your leader?
4. How did your group distribute your "wealth" (your paper)? Were there any
problems?
Social, political, and cultural behavior and phenomena
FOOd taboos
Social, political, and cultural CHANGE
SELFIEING
EXERCISE NO. 2 REAL WORLD
Actual observation of peoples behavior in public places
ANTHROPOLOGY
The Father of all social and behavior sciences
What does it take to be HUMAN
Biologically it deals with compositions of humans and their evolution
Socially it deals with behaviors, attitudes and beliefs
The study of people, their origins, their development, and contemporary variations
whenever, where ever, they have been found on the face of the earth
(Ember,Ember,Peregrine,2010)
Anthropology
5 Disciplines of Anthropology

ANTHROPOLOGIST.

FRANZ BOAS (Father of American Anthropology)

Historical Particularism
Advocated cultural relativism
Each society is a unique form of culture
BRONISLAW KASPER MALINOWSKI
Participant Observation
One should have the ability to participate and blend with the way the
way of life of a given culture
ALFRED REGINALD RADCLIFFE-BROWN
Structural Functionalist
Basic unit of analysis are the social structures
He saw individuals as a mere product of social structures
Used Diversity to understand life in a community
Culture Universal pattern of similarity within the array of difference (EQUAL BUT
DIFFERENT)
They focuses on human diversity and translate it into understanding between
different cultures
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
CULTURE
It is everything a person learns as a member of a society
It is a powerful agent that shapes decision and actions of humans
MATERIAL CULTURE tangibles, visible (food, clothes,building)
NON MATERIAL CULTURE values, ideas, beliefs, knowledge
CULTURE VARIES FROM REGION TO REGION
SOCIOLOGY
It is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social
interaction, and culture (Calhourne,2002)
According to Auguste Comte (1830)it is a scientific inquiry that covers human
social activity
SOCIOLOGISTS
SOCIOLOGISTS
Herbert Spencer

HERBERT SPENCER
Society is like an organism that has life on its own
Survival of the Fittest
Govt should not rescue the needy.
Known for Social Darwinism.

Applied the concept of evolution of the species (by Charles Darwin) to

societies in order to explain how they change, or evolve, over time.
Argued that the existence of rich and poor is natural survival of the fittest.

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

EMILE DURKHEIM
Believes individuals are products of society
Social forces have strong impact on persons life
The Division of Labor in Society and Suicide are some of his contributions in
understanding society.
He coined the term anomie which refers to normlessness or the loss of direction in
a society when social control of individual has become ineffective. As a social
current, anomie results to deviance and even suicide.
Max Weber (1864-1920)
MAX WEBER
Sympathetic understanding of the mind of others was essential to
understand the behavior of others
Asserted that religion is influential on actions and thoughts of others
Known for verstehen the German word for understanding or insight as a tool for
intellectual work.
Ideal type as a construct or model for evaluating specific cases is also one of his
contributions.
His published book The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism laid down
the basis of the origin of modern capitalism.
Karl Marx (1818-1830)
With Friedrich Engels, they published a very influential book The Communist
Manifesto.
He borrowed Hegels Dialectics and applied it to analyze the material world, thus
the Dialectical Materialism emerged.
He theorized that all societies is moving towards communism an ideal state
(utopia) or classless society.
He was critical with Capitalism an economic system in which the bourgooisie owns
the means of production and the proletariat must sell its labor-time to the capitalist
in order to survive.
SUBDISIPLINES OF SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE ARISTOTLE (Father of Political Science)
Deals with the study of politics, power and government.
It aims to know the activities within the state which includes:
Human interaction and conflict
Human and state relations
Power distributions
POLITICAL SCIENCE
As an ART Politics is played with STYLEused Charisma in influencing other people
As a SCIENCE uses research, investigation, analysis, validation, planning,
execution and evaluation
POLITICAL SCIENCE SUBDISCIPLINES
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Laswell mentioned that POLITICS is the hows, whens and wheres of getting power
and influence
POWER- the ability to make a person do what he will not do otherwise (Dahl)
STATE territory, government, people and sovereignty
POLITICAL SCIENCE- territory
POLITICAL SCIENCE- Government
ARISTOTLES Classification of Government
SOCIETY-involves Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science- can change the way
we see things, change peoples perspectives
PRESENT FORM OF PHILIPPINE GOVERNEMent Democracy, Presidential
Alienation estrangement
Negotiation compromise
Arbitration settling an argument in which both sides present their ideas to a third
person
Adjudication a judicial decision