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Chapter I Starting points for the understanding of culture, society and politics -- Section I The diversified human society -- Section II Anthropology, sociology and political science -- Section III Understanding culture, society and politics as a scientific endeavor -- Chapter II Understanding human societies and culture -- Section I Understanding human societies -- Section II The people behind the development of sociological thinking -- Section III Social forces that lead to the understanding of the society -- Section IV Intellectual forces in the developmental thinking -- Section V General themes for studying culture -- Chapter III Defining society and culture from the perspective of sociology and anthropology -- Section I Doing sociology and anthropology -- Section II The dynamics of culture -- Section III Culture as a complex whole -- Chapter IV Evolution as a way of seeing the natural world -- Section I What is evolution -- Section II Development of evolutionary theory -- Section III Early evolutionary theory -- Section IV Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution -- Section V Evolution and modern science -- Chapter V Biological evolution of a man -- Section I Man as a part of the animal kingdom -- Section II The evolution of the human species -- Section III The rise of the homo sapiens -- Chapter VI Human cultural and society evolution -- Section I Cultural and sociopolitical evolution -- Section II Origin of agriculture -- Section III Agriculture in different geographical regions in the Neolithic -- Section IV Agriculture and the rise of the state -- Chapter VII Becoming a member of the society through the process of socialization -- Section I Personality and socialization -- Section II Theories of personality -- Section III Agents of socialization -- Section IV Socialization through the life course -- Section V Human dignity, rights and the common good -- Chapter VIII Studying conformity and deviance -- Section I Conformity and deviance -- Section II Social foundations of deviance -- Section III Functions of deviance -- Section IV Labeling of deviance -- Chapter IX Organization of the society : social structures and construction of reality -- Section I Social structures -- Section II Social construction of reality -- Chapter X Cultural, social and political institutions -- Section I What is a social institution? -- Section II The family (kinship, marriage and the household) -- Section III State, politics, government and law -- Section IV Economic institutions -- Section V Non-state institutions -- Section VI Education -- Section VII Religion and beliefs system -- Section VIII Health -- Chapter XI Social and political stratification -- Section I What is social stratification? -- Section II The caste and class systems -- Section III Social classes and inequality : Marx and Weber thesis -- Section IV Social mobililty and its types -- Section V Gender stratification -- Section VI Race and ethnicity -- Section VII What is social inequality? -- Chapter XII Social problems and social change -- Section I What is social problem? -- Section II Social problems -- Section III Social change as the solution to social problems -- Chapter XIII New challenges to human adaptation and social change -- Section I Environmental degradation -- Section II Transitional migration and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) -- Chapter XIV Responding to social, political and cultural change -- Section I Inclusive citizenship and participatory governance -- Section II New forms of media and social networking -- Section III Social movements.