LESSON 1

Culture, Society, Politics

• They are a concepts that exist in the realm of ideas and thoughts.

• They can influence the way we see and experience our individual and collective Social beings.

Concepts

• initially invented as icons to caprure phenomena and in the process assist the users/inventors to describe facets of social experience in relation to the phenomena concerned.

Identity

• Distinctive identity that defines an individual

• Shared by those belinging to a particular group

Cultural Variations

• Rich diversity in social practices that different cultures exhibit around the world.

  
  

Social Differences

• Differences and discrimination that occur in society.

Political Identities

• Politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social or cultural identity tend to promote their own soecific interest or concerns without regard to the interest or concerns off any larger political groups.