Polytechnic University of the Philippines

PUP-Cabiao Campos

SYLLABUS

SOCI 1031: Sosyolohiya, Kultura at Pagpapamilya

Course Description

As the title suggests, this is an introductory course in Sociology and Anthropology. The central
focuses of study of these two social sciences are the human being and his/her relations. This course is an
engrossing subject because it concerns our own lives as human beings. To be human is to live in a
structured society shaped by culture. It is in this sense that humans are social beings who interact in
countless ways. Society presents itself to us a force that makes us act, think, and feel in specific ways. At
the same time, we actively shape the society in which we live—we sometimes violate rules, revolt to
challenge the status quo, and find new ways of doing things.
Sociology and Anthropology are two of the best known disciplines in trying to understand the
human being and society. Society tends to limit the individual by way of rules that structure the self while
the individual struggles for identity, uniqueness, creativity, freedom amidst these structuring rules set by
society at large. Sociology and anthropology locate this individual struggle within the network of rules that
society imposes and hence situate the individual within social structures, systems or any sets of codes
that delimit human creativity, uniqueness and freedom. This course introduces us to this approach to
understand ourselves in today’s social world.

Course Objectives

1. To introduce the students to the basic concepts, methods, perspectives and themes in sociology and
anthropology.
2. To provide the students analytical tools and theories in understanding social life particularly in
Philippine setting.

Course Summary

Five major topics—Sociological Perspectives and Methods, Culture, Structure and Institutions,
Socialization, Inequality and Social Change—comprise the course. At the end of the course, students
must be able to understand the sociological mind and its perspectives and methods of inquiry, the social
forces that shape and constrain human actions, the relations of these social forces and their effect on
social change. Five questions regarding these topics must be answered by the students after this course:
How sociologists see the social world?, What makes us act the way we do?, What constitutes the self?,
Why is there inequality and what are its consequences?, and How can we change our personal and
social worlds?.
Course Outline

S# Date Topic/Activity Req. Readings Suggested Readings

1 A 15 Class Organization Syllabus
2 16 Defining Sociology and Giddens, What is
Anthropology Sociology?
3 17 Ember, What is
Anthropology?
4 18 Questions of Sociology Charon, The Meaning of
Sociology
5 19 Charon, The Discipline
of Sociology
6 22 Origin of Sociology/Scope of Kottack, The Scope of
Sociology and Anthropology Anthropology
Giddens, The Scope of
Sociology
7 23 The Sociological Imagination Mills, The Sociological Berger, Sociology as a
Imagination Passion to Understand
8 24 Film TB A
9 25 Sociology and Science Henslin, Sociology and Weber, The Case for
the Social Sciences Value Free Sociology
Weber, The Meaning of
Science
10 26 Research Methods Henslin, How Barrat and Cole,
Sociologists Do Observation in
Research? Sociology Projects: A
Giddens, Working With Student’s Guide
Sociology: Methods Of Miner, Body Rituals
Research Among the Nacirema

11 29 Test 1: Basic Concepts,

Origin, Definitions and
Methods of Sociology and
Anthropology
12 30 Sociological Paradigms Henslin, Theoretical Charon, Sociology as a
Perspectives in Perspective: How
Sociology Sociologists Think
13 M1 Social Organization Cooley, Primary Groups Weber, The
Charon, Humans are Characteristics of
Embedded in Social Bureaucracy
Organization Rousseau, The
Language of
Community
Scott, An Introduction
to Organizations
14 2 Culture and Society Kottack, What is Harris, India’s Sacred
Culture? Cow
White, Symbol: The Fox, Real Punks and
Basic Element of Culture Pretenders: The Social
Organization of
Counterculture
Henslin, What is
Culture
15 3 Structure Caroll and Riddel, Social Henslin, Social
Structure Structure and Social
 Interaction
16 6 Social Institutions Berger, What is an
Institution? The Case of
Language
Charon, The Institution
17 7 Test2:Perspectives, Culture,
Organization, Institution
and Structure
18 8 State, Religion, Mass Media Kottack, American Malinowski, The Role of
and Popular Culture Popular Culture Magic and Religion
Abad, Theories of Zialcita, The Passion of
Popular Culture Christ
Shimizu, Filipino
Children
19 9 Socialization: 3 Theories Giddens, Freud, Piaget Henslin, Socialization
20 10 and Mead

21 13 The Constitution of the Self/ Berger, The Social

Reflexivity/Social Construction of Reality
Construction of the Self
22 14 The I and the Mead, Mind, Self and
Me/Dramaturgy Society
Goffman, The
Presentation of the Self
in Everyday Life
23 15 Theories of Deviance Goode, What is Berger, Deviance
Illustration of and Exercise Deviance
on Deviance Panopio, The Leaf
Group

24 16 Test 3: Socialization and

Deviance
25 17 Social Inequality: Kerkvliet, Classes and Persell and Cookson,
Dimensions/Social Class Class Relations in a Social Class and Life
and Power Philippine Village Chances

26 20 Poverty and Structural Gans, The Uses of Henslin, Power

Violence Poverty: The Poor Pay Authority and Violence
All
Karaos, Manila’s
Squatter Movement: A
Struggle for Place and
Identity
27 21 Gender and Global Eviota, Political
Inequality and Development Economy of Gender
Todaro, Struggle for
Economic Development
28 22 Social Change: Three Giddens, Social Change Ritzer, The
Theories of Social Change: Past, Present and MacDonaldization of
Durkheim, Weber and Marx Future Society
Durkheim, Anomy and Weber, The
Modern Life Disenchantment of
Modern Life
23 Final Exam: Inequality, All previous tests and
Social Change and handouts for the last two
 Summary of tests 1, 2 and 3 topics

Requirements and Grading System

Each student is required to submit one small paper and one term paper (ethnography). There will
be three topical tests and a final examination, which is an evaluation of all the topics covered in the class.
Thirty five percent of the final grade will come from the paper exercises: ten percent for the small paper
and twenty five percent for the term paper. Fifty five percent will come from the four tests with each topical
test equivalent to ten percent and the final examination equivalent to twenty five percent. Ten percent will
be allotted for class participation for a total of one hundred percent. Aside from the required readings
listed above, additional readings will be given to supplement the list.

Consultation Hours: