GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)

Lesson #3

Name: ________________________________________ Date:

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Schedule: _____________________________________

Lesson title: Materials:

Self: From the Perspective of Anthropology White Board Marker, White Board,
TV/Projector
Lesson Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will
be able to: References:
1. Know how Culture shapes ourselves https://sites.google.com/site/theorymaphel
2. Appreciate ourselves in Anthropological perspective ene/clifford-geertz/impact-of-the-concept-
of-culture-on-the-concept-of-man
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-
paul-phd/loving-
connection_b_2559654.html
https://nadinedib.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/
does-culture-shape-our-personal-
identity/comment-page-1/

In connection with our previous lesson No 2. which is about sociology, today I will show and present to you ,
another factors that contribute to our development, it is Anthropology.

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
1) Good morning/afternoon my student! It’s nice to be with you again for another inspiring
topic that will trigger / exercise your mind to think. (Thinking is growing, and growing is
development.)

What is Anthropology?
Do Anthropology and Sociology the same? What do they differ
from each other?
What is in Anthropology that creates our identity?

Today’s lesson is all about Anthropology….

2) Activity 1: What I Know Chart, part 1 (3 minutes)

What do you know about Anthropology?

This is to measure your before and after knowledge about Anthropology. Answer the
questions below by writing your ideas under the first column What I Know. It’s okay if
you write key words or phrases that you think are related to the questions.

What I Know? Questions: What I Learned (Activity 4)

Answer this now (Answer this after you learn
something in the lesson)
What are the Impact of Culture
to you?
what makes people/cultures
different, not the same?
What man is capable of and how
he actually behaves, which in
turn helps define human nature?

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B. MAIN LESSON (Read and understand carefully the Content notes for you to understand the
whole lesson and able to answer exercises given.)

1) Activity 2: Content Notes

The self and person

Anthropology is the scientific

study of the origins of humans,
how we have changed
over the years, and how we relate
to each other, both within our
own culture and with people from
other cultures.

Anthropology is the study of

what makes us
human. Anthropologists take a
broad approach to understanding
the many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. They consider
the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of
years ago and what was important to them.

Anthropologists study the concept of culture and its relationship to human life in
different times and places. They study other societies to gain a clearer perspective on
our own. They study the past to help interpret the present. ... Students who major
in anthropology are curious about other cultures and other times.

Such study allows us to better understand why people behave the way they do and how
different groups have such amazing variety in their lifeways. It allows us to learn about
diversity and respect the adaptability of man to the enormous variety of environments
where people live.

In studying and interpreting the vast range of similarities and differences

in human societies and cultures, anthropologists also seek to understand how people
themselves make sense of the world in which they live. A concentration
in Anthropology provides students with a broad introduction to the discipline.

Anthropologists have most frequently employed the term 'identity' (self) to refer to this idea of
selfhood in a loosely Eriksonian way (Erikson 1972) properties based on the uniqueness and
individuality which makes a person distinct from others. Identity (self) refers to qualities of
sameness in relation to a person's connection to others and to a particular group of people.

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When we are disconnected from ourselves — from who we really are and from our feelings —
and when we are not filling ourselves with love through our spiritual connection, we create a black
hole within. The black hole we’ve created through our self-abandonment becomes like a vacuum,
trying to pull love from others.

Cultural anthropology brings us into contact with different ways of life and
challenges our awareness of just how arbitrary our own understanding of the world is as
we learn how other people have developed satisfying but different ways of living.

The Self embedded in Culture

Theorists of culture and personality school argued that socialization creates personality
patterns. It shapes a person’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms to fit into
and function as productive members in the surrounding human society. The study of culture and
personality wanted to examine how different socialization practices resulted in different
personality types.

Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man

Basic Premises
1. (marriage, economy, religion, etc.)
2. what makes people/cultures different, not the same;
3. Culture is the "accumulated totality" of symbolic patterns that appear in different societies
4. what man is capable of and how he actually behaves, which in turn helps define human nature

Activity 3

Exercise No 1. Skill-building Activities

This is an experiential and situational, please write it here for you to have record reminiscing.

1. Is Anthropology contribute to the development of your personality? How?

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2. Do LGBT group define persons as distinct from others, identity (self) to qualities of sameness
in relation to a person's connection to others and to a particular group of people?
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Exercise No. 2
For every lesson we need to have an assessment in order to know if learning takes place.
Write T if the answer is TRUE and F if its FALSE

____ 1. Fiesta, music, dresses, hair style and dance are part of anthropology.
____ 2. Harana is singing of song to a girl whom your courting.
____ 3. Bayanihan is part of Indonesian culture
____4. Based on Anthropology study in the Philippines, Christianity came from Spaniard who
conquer us.
____5. Majority of our language came from Chinese words
____6. Cultural anthropology brings us into contact with different ways of life and
challenges our awareness of just how arbitrary our own understanding of the world is as
we learn how other people have developed satisfying but different ways of living
____7. Sociology is the study the past to help interpret the present.
____8. Anthropology is the scientific study of the origins of Animals, how they have
changed over the years.
____9. Marriage, Economy, Religion, etc are part of Anth ropology
____10. Anthropology shapes a person’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and
norms to fit into and function as productive members in the surrounding human society.

Activity 4: What I Know Chart, part 2 (2 mins)

It’s time to answer the questions in the What I Know chart in Activity 1. Log in your
answers in the table.

LESSON WRAP UP

Congratulations for finishing this module! Shade the number of the module that you finished.

Thinking about your learning

Give three (3) positive things that you’ve learn from the lesson?
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From the learning that you get, what are your plans to change for the better “YOU”?
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What more do you want to know and learn?

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FAQs
1. Do all the things that happen to our life defines what kind and status and identity you have
in the society?

Ans. Yes! Because anything that we accomplish, attain in life tells the community where
you live what kind of person are you? And where do you belong. That’s why background
investigation is always done and as bases for assessment.

2. How is SELF shaped and influenced by culture?”

Ans. Our parents and the environment handed it down to us, teaching us the righteous
way to be accepted in the community where we live. And we do the same thing to the next
generation.

3. Can Traditions and Culture change?

Ans. They only modify but they don’t change completely nor be removed.

KEY TO CORRECTION

Exercise No.2 Key Answer

1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. F
9. T
10. T

Thank you for your cooperation!!

God Bless…
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