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Lesson 1 Society

This document provides information on social classes, culture, norms, deviance, and causes of social and cultural change. It discusses three types of social classes - upper class, middle class, and lower class. It defines culture and lists some key aspects of culture like gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion, and exceptionality. It also discusses norms, rules, prescription, standard behavior, and deviance. Finally, it outlines some common causes of social change like invention, discovery, diffusion, and causes of cultural change like physical environment, population movement, war, random events, and technology.

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Lesson 1 Society

This document provides information on social classes, culture, norms, deviance, and causes of social and cultural change. It discusses three types of social classes - upper class, middle class, and lower class. It defines culture and lists some key aspects of culture like gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion, and exceptionality. It also discusses norms, rules, prescription, standard behavior, and deviance. Finally, it outlines some common causes of social change like invention, discovery, diffusion, and causes of cultural change like physical environment, population movement, war, random events, and technology.

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Lesson 1 - Successful in their respective

fields of interest.
Society
2 general types of Upper Class:
- Group of people.
- Shared a common territory, a. New Rich (nouveau riche)
language & culture. - Have humble beginnings.
- Act together for survival. - Often experienced rags to riches
- Dependence for survival. turn of fortunes.
b. Traditional Upper Class
Culture - Powerful elite who acquired
- Complex whole. wealth through inheritance &
birthright.
Learned 2. Middle Class
Characteristics - Have small businesses & industry
Symbolic of Culture operators.
Shared - Mostly owners, managers,
professionals, office workers,
Politics farm owners.
- Income average enough to
- Theory\ art on practice of
provide a comfortable & decdnt
government.
living.
Terms and Concept in USCP 3. Lower Class
- Farm employees, skilled &
 Gender unskilled artisans, service
- How you characterized yourself. workers, unemployed/ under
- Being male or female. employed.
- Society’s division into two - Indigent families\ informal
distinctive categories between settlers.
sex. - Largest in terms of number &
 Socio economic Status relatively earn their living thru
- Category of person when it subsistence.
comes to economic preferences.  Ethnicity
- Who have more or less same - Indigeneous group.
economic privileges in a society.
Ethnic Group
Priveleges due to inherited, wealth,
occupational status or breadwinner. - Identified themselves as distinct
& unique based on
3 kinds of SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS distinguishable cultural features
1. Upper Class that set them apart from others
- Elite families. such as shared ancestry,
common origin, language, - Distinctly set away from the
customs & traditions. norm.
 Religion
2 category of Deviance:
- Spritiual sphere.
 Exceptionality 1. Formal Deviance
- Intellectually gifted or talented. - Disobedience of the laws or
- Being physically\ mentally rules.
challenged conditions such as - Violated the enacted laws.
personality\behavior,
communication (learning Ex: robbery, theft, graft, rape, other
disability, speech impairment, forms of criminality.
hearing problems) intellectual
2. Informal Deviance
(mild intellectual & mental
- Disobedience of the prescription
development disabilities),
& standard behavior.
physical (low vision, blind)
- Not codified into laws.
- Disability.
 Nationality Lesson 3
- Country’s identity (person).
Social Change
Lesson 2
- Modifications & variations of
Norms society’s pattern of living.

Rules Indicators of Social Change

- Do’s and dont’s that should be a. Rise and Fall


strictly implemented. b. Change in Structures of Role

Prescription Cultural Change

- Optional. (either to follow or not) - Changes in a culture’s content &


structure.
Standard Behavior - Affecting new traits or trait
- Something measureable about complexes.
behaviors. Political Change
Deviance (another word for Norm) - Changes in open, participatory, &
- Unconformity\ disobedience. accountable politics.

Deviant Behavior Open Government

- Behavior that should be observed - Everyone’s level of awareness in


when you’re disobeying. governance.
Participatory Government - Assimilation of culture.
- Change in worldviews, attitudes,
- Collaborative work of people & behavior, perspective of looking
government. at things.
Accountable Government Causes of Cultural Change
- Accountability group. 1. Physical Environment
3 causes of Social Change - Disasters, other interruptions.
- Such as earthquakes, flooding,
1. Invention droughts.
- New combination, new use of - Exposures to natural calamities:
existing knowledge. sense of resiliency, new
perspective, coping mechanisms.
2 types of Invention
2. Population Movement
a. Material Invention - Migration.
- Objects, ideas. - Due to dislocation,
Ex: bow & arrow, mobile phone, reterritorialization, urban
airplaine explosions.
b. Social Invention - Increase\ decrease in
- Social patterns. population size.
Ex: alphabet, texting, jejemon, 3. War and Conquest
shortcut. - Territorial sovereignity.
2. Discovery - Recognitions of one’s political
- Finding new things that already dtermination for identity.
existing. 4. Random Events
3. Diffusion - Includes events such as oil price
- Spread of culture traits. hike, high inflation rate.
- Consumer responses to these as
Under diffusion: barometer to social order.
5. Technology
a. Enculturation
- Impact of science & technology.
- Transfer of culture through
- Major impetus for change.
learning.
Ex: Invention of the computer and
b. Socialization
internet access, social media.
- Culture adaption through
exposure.
Causes of Political Change
- Experience culture.
a. Based on needs.
c. Association
b. Based on trends.
- Cultural convergence.
- Connection with the culture.
d. Integration
FIGTHING! 

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