Grade and Section: 12-Rubellite
Subject: Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
CATEGORIES
GENDER
SOCIOECONOMIC
CLASS
POLITICAL IDENTITY
RELIGION
CULTURAL VARIATION
EXAMPLES
In traditional Philippine society, women are expected to be plain
housewives and take care of their children, while men are expected to be
professionals and provide the needs of their family.
Most students attending to private schools belong to the higher class for
they can afford to pay the fees required. Whereas most students attending
to public schools belong the lower/working class for they can afford it and
the education they need is free.
In schools, students from each class are to vote for their respective class
officers. They are all encouraged to participate in the event where they
can nominate their favored classmates to be the ones to manage their
class. However, those who has the potential to lead but are not discovered
by everyone will never be assigned to leading a class.
In some Catholic schools, they encourage students and teachers to attend
mass every month or every week that is to be held at their school or at a
nearby church. For those students and teachers who do not share the
same religion like Iglesia ni Cristo, they are either holding a ceremony or
praying session of their own at a given place in the school premises.
In the Philippines, Filipinos call their parents “nanay” and “tatay”, “mama”
and “papa”, etc. Meanwhile in other countries like in America, they call
their parents with their first names.
Stevie Wonder was a legendary musician, singer-songwriter, who was
EXCEPTIONALITY/NONborn blind due to being six weeks premature and the blood vessels at the
EXCEPTIONALITY
back of his eyes not having yet reached maturation.
Reflection:
Social differences are one of the reasons why there are many types of social groups. From one’s
gender, physical appearance, and characteristics, to his or her religion, beliefs, and abilities, one is treated
differently or unfairly. So in connection to the three social disciplines; Anthropology, Sociology, and Political
Science, I will explain how the categories in social differences, specifically in gender, socioeconomic class,
political identity, religion, cultural variation, and exceptionality or non-exceptionality relate to the perceptions
of culture, society, and politics.
Gender refers to how a person is characterized by their behaviors, expressions, and identity. There
are social groups that does not accept a boy with a feminine personality or a girl with a strong masculine
personality. It is believed by most people that a girl must be feminine while a boy must be masculine. One
of the factors that affects that mindset is their culture and religion. It has been a norm for several centuries
that man is for woman and woman is for a man only, and that they perform their respected tasks as male
and female.
In relation to sociology, there are three classifications of socioeconomical class namely lower
class/working class, middle class, and higher class. It is understood already that when you belong to the
higher class, you are rich. But if you are poor and can hardly get out of poverty, you belong to the lower
class.
Though having a disability kind of sounds like a weakness and a burden, some people with disabilities
have used their ‘weakness’ as their strength. Though some of them have even helped the world better, there
are some of them who were not blessed enough. Some of them were treated badly by people who do cannot
understand them or who simply do not like them for having a disability.
It’s sad because not everyone tries to have a common ground with those who are different from
them. Maybe if everyone will try to understand and accept each other’s differences, we will be able to create
a whole new world where discrimination is not present.