Understanding society, culture, and politics : exploring the dynamics of human diversity and adaption for senior high school / Francisco, C. Riodique.

Includes reference.

Chapter I: Starting points for the understanding of culture, society and politics.--Chapter II: Understanding human societies and culture.--Chapter III: Defining society and culture from the perspectives of sociology and anthropology.--Chapter IV: Evolution as a way of seeing the natural world.--Chapter V: Biological evolution of man.--Chapter VI: Human cultural and social evolution.--Chapter VII: Becoming a member of the society through the process of socialization.--Chapter VIII: Studying conformity and deviant behavior.--Chapter IX: Organization of the society : social structures and construction of reality.--Chapter X: Cultural, social and political institutions.--Chapter XI: Social and political stratification.--Chapter XII: Social problems and social change.--Chapter XIII: New challenges to human adaptation and social change.--Chapter XIV: Responding to social, political and cultural change.

This book was inspired by the Dep-Ed syllabus on the subject. However there are additional chapters and topics in this book that I, as a professor, teaching in the social sciences believe to be crucial to the overall impression and appreciation of this subject.