Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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MODULE 4
Significance of Cultural, Social, Political and Economic Symbols and Practices
Cultural and Socio-Political Development
Marybeth N. Garcia
Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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Early Types of Society
Marybeth N. Garcia
Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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Marybeth N. Garcia
Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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Marybeth N. Garcia
Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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Name: ____________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________
Section: __________________________ Score: ________________________ Parent’s Signature:
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MODULE 4 ACTIVITIES
I. Correct or Incorrect. Write the word Correct if the idea of the statement is true and the write word Incorrect if
otherwise.
__________1. Apes and human have similarities in biological anatomy and capacity for culture.
__________2. As the environment changes, our society and way of life also change.
__________3. Stone tools offer archaeologists hints about the lifestyle of early homo sapiens.
__________4. Earliest people believed in supernatural being or gods.
__________5. The market economic system was founded during the agrarian stage of society.
__________6. Foraging was an economic activity started during the Metal Age.
__________7. The practice of agriculture was known during the late Paleolithic period.
__________8. Producing more food allowed societies to become larger.
__________9. Language has a little influence on our ways of perceiving, behaving, and feeling.
__________10. The expansion of trade sparked the growth of cities as economic and political centers.
II. Identification. Identify what is being asked.
__________11. A symbolic system through which people communicate and through which idea values, beliefs, and
knowledge are transmitted, expressed, and shared.
__________12. It refers to our cultural heritage in the form of structures, monuments, historical sites, and other
artifacts.
__________13. Sociologists refer to this as the combination of objects and rules of using them that speaks about
their culture.
__________14. Cultural period where the used of metal such as bronze, copper, and iron flourished.
__________15. The Thinking Man –species to which all modern human beings belong.
III. Match Column A to Column B to identify what field of Social Science is referring to.
Column A Column B
1. Their study on social relationship and interactions will provide information A. Sociology
that will help in understanding society objectively through the use of
scientific investigation and methodology.
2. The study of the nature, causes, and consequences of collective decisions B. Archaeology
and actions taken by groups of people embedded in cultures and
institutions that structure power and authority.
3. It seeks to studies human as both biological and social creatures. It seeks C. Anthropology
to answer this primary question: What does it mean to be human?
4. Examines the remains of ancient and historical human populations to D. Economics
promote an understanding of how humans have adapted to their
environment and developed.
5. It is the study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, E. Political Science
distribution, and consumption, both individually and collectively.
Marybeth N. Garcia
Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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IV. Contributions to Civilization. Can you identify the ancient civilization that brought the world
some of these greatest inventions or achievements? Choose your answers inside this table and write them in a
separate sheet of paper.
Mesopotamia Chinese Indus Egypt
Civilization Civilization Civilization Civilization
Tigris/ Euphrates river- Huang Ho/ Yangtze Indus river-valley Nile river-valley
valley river-valley
Cuneiform –First System of Writing Great Pyramids of the World
6. ____________________________ 7._________________________
Inventor of first paper Mohenjo-daro –one of the world’s greatest cities
8. _______________________ 9. ____________________________
Marybeth N. Garcia
Tanglag National High School
Tanglag, Rosario, La Union Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
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A. IV. Enumerate practices or activities of early people that are still being practiced or
observed by the people today.
Socio-cultural Political Practices/ Economic Practices/
Practices/Activities Activities Activities
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4
5 5 5
V. Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from
generation to generation. There are two kinds: Tangible cultural heritage and Intangible cultural heritage. Can you
give examples of them?
TANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL
HERITAGE
Give specific name / examples found around the world
1. 9.
2. 10.
Give specific name / examples found in Asia
3. 11.
4. 12.
Give specific name / examples found in the Philippines
5. 13.
6. 14.
Give specific name / examples found in Cordillera Administrative Region
7. 15.
8. 16.
Marybeth N. Garcia