TASK 1

REFERENCE:

Eriksen, T.H. (2001). Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 2nd Ed. Pluto Press. USA.

LOCAL ORGANISATION (58-72)

1. What role did local communities play in the development of anthropology?
2. In what ways norms and social control shape social interaction in the community?
3. Identify local policies during the pandemic. How did they influence interaction among your community members?
4. How does socialization shape our behavior and thought as a member of our community? Give examples (child rearing, schooling, building, friendship, making money etc.)

PERSON AND SOCIETY (73-92)

1. What are dominant structures today, especially in this pandemic period? Explain your answer.
2. How do social structures work together in addressing the pandemic?
3. What conflicts do these structures have with each other?
4. How do such conflicts affect our ways in dealing with the pandemic?
5. What are the two ways of conceptualizing group membership in modern societies? Describe each operates in your society.

TASK 2

REFERENCE:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317050091_History_Politics_Government_and_the_Constitution_in_the_Philippines_A_Sociological-Juridical_Approach

Chapter 1- 4 (pages 1-90)

1. Why is there a need to study comparative government and politics? How is this relevant today?
2. There are different conceptualizations and applications of democracy today, which one relevant and which one is not?
3. How does the state make itself felt in our lives, and how do we know?
4. What are the implications of the territorial issues on our sovereignty?
5. How do you describe Philippine democracy?
6. What are the challenges of Philippine democracy?
7. Is democracy - in practice - truly government by the people, or have other voices come to be heard more loudly?
8. Which is preferable: a stable dictatorship or the instability that often arises in poor and deeply divided societies with no experience of democracy?
9. Why are so many authoritarian regimes corrupt?

TASK 3

REFERENCE:https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1FsWICYwXpBXeQO_jFGliY_9yfDkfFY-l

(Topic: Capitalism vs. Socialism Comparing Economic Systems - Guidebook - The Great Courses - TTC by Dr. Edward F. Stuart (z-lib.org) (1)

Part 1. Lectures 1 and 2 (pages 1-23)

1. How would your different political, moral, and religious values cause you to prefer a particular kind of economic system?
2. Do you think that most people are motivated by self-interest or by concerns for their fellow human beings? What does this have to do with capitalism versus socialism?
3. What did Adam Smith think about the basic nature of human beings? How did this influence his advocacy of a market system?
4. Where did Karl Marx get his initial ideas about class conflict? How did Marx think class conflict could be eliminated?

Part 2. Lecture 22: 233-244. Asian Tigers

1. What were the advantages to the Asian Tiger economies of having a strongman in charge of development? What were the goals of these strongmen?
2. Are the stories about the economic miracles in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan stories about the wonders of the free enterprise system?

TASK 4

REFERENCE: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1FsWICYwXpBXeQO_jFGliY_9yfDkfFY-l

(Topic:The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes)

1. What are the authors' claim? 2. What are the pieces of evidence that support the claim? 3. What is your insight?

Task 5

Reference: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1FsWICYwXpBXeQO_jFGliY_9yfDkfFY-l

(Topic: Human Geograhpy)

Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1-49).

Using these five key concerns,

a. the location of human beings and their activities; b. the places human beings create; c. the relationships human beings have with their surrounding environment; d. the movements generated by human activities and the interconnections between places which result; e. and the regions human beings invent f. describe the Human Geography of the area in which you live.

Postmodern Human Geography approaches the explanatory frameworks that modern Geography invented with a degree of incredulity. Discuss.