UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL
Grade 12
Core Subject Title: Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Semester: 1ST semester
Core Subject Description: This course uses insights from Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology to develop students’
awareness of cultural, social and political dynamics, and sensitivity to cultural diversity; provide them with an understanding of how
culture, human agency, society and politics work; and engage them in the examination of the country’s current human development
goals. At the end of the course, students should acquire ideas about human cultures, human agency, society and politics; recognize
cultural relativism and social inclusiveness to overcome prejudices; and develop social and cultural competence to guide their
interactions with groups, communities, networks, and institutions
Culminating Performance Standard: To advocate how human societies should adapt to socio-cultural, political, and economic
changes.
Performance Task: There are major socio-cultural and political problems/issues in your community (situation). As a member of a
research and advocacy team (Role), you were tasked to identify one that needs immediate response and create a plan of action
aimed at increasing awareness, raise consciousness, and provide recommendations to address the problems (goal). The plan of
action shall be used as basis for initiating seminars and advocacy campaigns (i.e. exhibit, print and e-media (product) in your
community (audience). Through your specific, manageable, achievable, realistic and tangible (SMART) (Standard) plan of action,
the community will be able to respond to such concerns.
Learning Competencies
Performance
Standards
Content
Content
Standards
Highest Thinking
Skills to Assess
Complete
KUD
Most
Essential
KUD
Classification
Most
Essential
Topic
RBT
Flexible
Assessment
Activities
(FAA)
Performance
Check(s)
Highest Enabling
Strategy to Use in
Developing the Highest
Thinking Skill to Assess
Enablin
g
General
Strategy
Flexible
Learning
Strategies
(FLS)
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL
CONTENT
1.
Anthropol
ogy
Sociology
2. analyze social,
political, and
cultural change
UCSP11/12SP
UIb-3
UCSP11/12S
PUIa-1
Create
Learning
Station
Communication
UCSP11/12SP
UIa-2
1. articulate
observations
on human
cultural
variation,
social
differences,
social change,
and political
identities
Analyzing
Political
Science
acknowled
g e human
cultural
variation,
social
differences,
social
change, and
political
identities
1. demonstrate
curiosity and an
openness to
explore the
origins and
dynamics of
culture and
society, and
political identities
Understanding
The learners
demonstrate
an
understandi
ng of:
1. human
cultural
variation,
social
differences,
social
change, and
political
identities
Sociology
2. the
significance
of studying
culture,
society, and
politics 3.
the rationale
for studying
anthropolog
y, political
science, and
sociology
MOST
ESSENTIA
L
Knowing
A. Starting
points for
the
understandi
ng of
culture,
society, and
politics
CONTENT
STANDARDS
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL
Humaniza
tion
1. trace the
biological and
cultural evolution
of early to
modern humans
Describe the
biological and
cultural
evolution of
early to
modern
humans
UCSP11/12HB
SIe-12
Connection
Knowing
Analyze key
features of
interrelations
hips of
biological,
cultural and
socio-political
processes in
human
evolution that
can still be
used and
developed
Representation
Hominiza
tion
UCSPC11DCSIc6
Deriving
anthropologic
al and
sociological
perspectives
on culture and
society
Creating
Society
&
Culture
1. explain
anthropological
and sociological
perspectives on
culture and
society
Evaluating
1. the
human
origins and
the capacity
for culture
Culture
1. appreciate
the nature of
culture and
society from
the
perspectives
of
anthropology
and sociology
Doing
C. Looking
back at
Human Bio
cultural and
Social
Evolution
Society
Understanding
1. culture
and society
as
anthropologi
cal and
sociological
concepts
Knowing
B. Defining
Culture and
Society from
the
perspectives
of
anthropolog
y and
sociology
Use
Task
Cards
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL
Social
Control
Control
Conformit
y and
Deviance
E. How
society is
organized
Groups
Groups
Variations
UCSP11/12HS
OIIi-20
Knowing
1. cultural,
social, and
political
institutions
as sets of
norms and
patterns of
behaviour
that relate
to major
social
interests
Justify the
organized
nature of
social life and
rules
governing
behavior
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL
Representation
1. traces kinship
ties and social
networks
UCSP11/12BM
SIg-15
Target
different
senses
within
lessons
Analyzing
1. analyze
aspects of
social
organization
Deriving the
development
of one’s self
and others as
a product of
socialization
and
enculturation
Understanding
1. explain the
development of
one’s self and
others as a
product of
socialization and
enculturation
Representation
Social
Processes
1. identify
norms and
values to be
observed in
interacting
with others in
society, and
the
consequences
of ignoring
these rules
Analyzing
Identify
and
Personalit
y
Formatio
n
Understanding
1. how
individuals
learn culture
and become
competent
members of
society
Knowing
D. Becoming
a member of
society
Share your
own
strengths
Kinship
2. describe the
organized nature
of social life and
rules governing
behaviour
Creating
Connection
Think-PairShare
Evaluating
Representation
Three
Types of
Institutio
n
Justify the
organized
nature of
social life and
rules
governing
behavior
Doing
UCSP11/12HS
OIIi-21
Recognize
kinship ties
and social
networks
Doing
Political
and
Leadershi
p
Structure
2. identify
one’s role in
social groups
and
institutions
Understanding
F. Cultural,
social and
political
institutions
2. social
stratification
as the
ranking of
individuals
according to
wealth,
power, and
prestige
Journals
Education
3. social and
political
inequalities
as features
of societies
and the
global
community
Stratificat
ion
Social
Mobility
3. recognize
other forms
of economic
transaction
such as
sharing, gift
exchange,
and
redistribution
in his/her
own society
11. examine
stratification
from the
functionalist and
conflict
perspectives
UCSP11/12HS
OIIIc-30
Understanding
G. Social
and political
stratification
Identify
different social
forms of social
organization
according to
their manifest
and latent
functions
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL
3. develop a plan
of action for
communitybased response
to change
UCSP11/12CS
CIIj-35
Make a plan of
action for
communitybased
response to
change
Different
types of free
study time.
Doing
Respondi
ng to
Social,
Cultural
and
Political
Change
2. advocate
how human
societies
should adapt
to such
changes
Run
literature
circles
Connection
Migration
Representation
UCSP11/12CS
CIIi-34
Explain how
human
societies
adapt to new
challenges in
the physical,
social, and
cultural
environment
Representation
2. describe how
human societies
adapt to new
challenges in the
physical, social,
and cultural
environment
Creating
2. advocate
how human
societies
should adapt
to such
changes
Reflection
and goalsetting
exercises
Analyzing
Climate
Change
Evaluating
UCSP11/12CS
CIIh-33
Apply the new
challenges
faced by
human
populations in
contemporary
societies
Understanding
1. identify new
challenges faced
by human
populations in
contemporary
societies
Doing
the agents/
institutions,
processes,
and
outcomes of
cultural,
political, and
social
change
Theories
of
Social
Change
1. evaluates
factors
causing
social,
political, and
cultural
change
Doing
J.
Responding
to social,
political, and
cultural
change
the agents/
institutions,
processes,
and
outcomes of
cultural,
political, and
social
change
Social
Change
Knowing
I. New
challenges
to human
adaptation
and social
change
the agents/
institutions,
processes,
and
outcomes of
cultural,
political, and
social
change
Understanding
H. Cultural,
Social, and
Political
Change
Sources of
social,
cultural, and
political
change