UCSP - Social Mobility System Perspectives and etc.

Social mobility

how people manage to change their social position over a period of time

Vertical mobility

refers to how people would move up and down the social hierarchy

horizontal mobility

person were to move in an equally ranked position

Open and Closed Class System

Two types of system

Open Class System

a person's status is based on their achievement

Open Class System

They can easily move up or down the social ladder based on their actions

Brahmins

priests

Khsatriyas

warriors

vaishyas

Merchants, landowners

shudras

servants

shudras

subordinate to vaishyas, khastriyas, brahmins

untouchables

out of caste, subordinate to all (cobblers, street sweepers, latrine cleaners

Poor people certainly attach

themselves to people with greater means

as one strategy for garnering more

protection against adversities and possibly

improving their own claims to resources”

Kerkvliet, 1990

Closed Class System

in these societies people are born into their classes and they will usually remain in their ascribed status for the rest of their life

social inequality

People having unequal access to

various resources and privileges in

society

social inequality

occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly,

GENDER INEQUALITY

having some people deprived of privilages (such as some occupations, equal pay, education, rights, etc.) that others enjoy due to their sex or gender

ethnic minorities

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ethnic inequality

groups of people in a society violated because they are

discriminated due to their ethnicity

Education

The process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)

● National Statistics Office (NSO) / Philippine Statistics Office (PSA)

● Tariff Commission

● National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)

● National Security Council (NSC)

● Office of the Press Secretary (OPS)

● Philippine News Agency (PNA)

● Philippine Anti-Graft Commission

● Department of Education

● Department of Health

State Institutions

Banks

● Corporations

● Trade Unions

● Cooperatives

● Development Agencies

● Civil Organizations

● Transnational Advocacy Groups

Non-state Institutions - These are people and or organizations that participate in international

affairs and relations but are not affiliated with any state or nation.