Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Conflict Society

minority groups are seen as lower class individuals that will not be able to keep up with the consistent competition occurring within the environment.

Functionalist

minorities also play social roles that contributes to social balance and equilibrium. However, these roles are bound by limitations and social norms.

International Inequality

refers to the idea of inequality between countries. This can be compared to global inequality between people across countries.

Global Stratification

is a relevant concept involved in global inequality. It is the unequal distribution of social gaps across nations that are usually seen on the ratio between number of deaths versus number of live births per capita as well as life expectancy.

Non State Actor

is an individual or organization that had powerful economic, political, and social power.

State Actor

is the institution implementing the functions of the government.

Global Inequality

the inequality between people across countries.

Actors

are entities that participate in or promote international relations.

Other Minorities

this may include people with disabilities or people with religions that are less prevalent in society.

Ethnic Minorities

because some minorities live traditionalistic lives far away from the city and technology, and some may appear differently than usual. They have been consistently labeled and treated as people with minimal knowledge and capabilities.

Gender Inequality

the inequality based on sexuality and biological differences.

LGBTQ+ Community

has always been treated indifferently and discriminately because they do not fall within a biological gender group.

Symbolic Capital

refers to the resources available to a group or individual on the basis of honor, prestige, recognition, and serves as the value that holds within a culture.

Political Inequality

the distance between masses and the decision makers, the more laters of authority and the decision, the greater the inequality.

Social Inequality

refers to the unequal distribution of opportunities and rewards among different social positions within a society.

Karl Maxx

inspired from his analysis in the rise of industrialization, he defined social inequality as the difference in the distribution of social desirables such as wealth, power, and prestige.

Communist

based on command economy.

Democracy

based on capitalist economy.

Armed Forces of the Philippines

AFP refers to

Local Government Unit

LGU stands for

State Institutions

refers to governmental and legal structures established within a country, often influenced by colonial powers, to administer laws and provide services to the population.

Non State Institutions

organizations that are not controlled by governments.

Banks

helps us keep our money, avail different kinds of loan and exchange currencies.

Corporations

is owned by a group of people but has a separate legal identities.

Trade Union

they look after the well-being of the workers. Collectively, they raise issues such as low salary, lack of compensation, etc., to the management that sometimes end up with work “stoppage” or strike until the demands of both aides are met.

Cooperatives

are made up of people with common interest who agreed to work together for easy, safe, and affordable access ro commodities, loans, and other services.

Development Agencies

works as a bank that provides financial assistance to important projects.

Civil Organization

include academic institutions, research teams, mass media, religious organizations and people's organizations.

Transnational Advocacy Groups

influence the government to take action on matters commonly neglected.

Education

the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgement, and generally if preparing oneself or other intellectual for mature life.

Educare

Latin word for Education which means "‘to train’ or ‘to bring up’

Formal Education

refers to the standardized method of hierarchically structured and progressive schooling.

Non Formal Education

refers to an activity carried outside the structure of a formal education.

Socialization

is an essential in creating a society. ( social norms, values, and culture )

Transmission of Culture

is at the highest possible. Through socialization in school, human learn the values, beliefs and social norms of their culture.

Social Integration

as the saying goes “nations are built because of education.”

Social Placement

education provided a social placement for everyone for it prepares us for the later station of our lives.

Social Inclusion

is a fundamental principle of social justice. It is the process of improving the terms of individuals and groups to take part in society.

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

4Ps

Department of Social Welfare and Development

DSWD

Education For All

EFA

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)

it is a human development measure of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor, to improve the health, nutrition, and the education of children aged 0 - 18.

Service Delivery Network

SDN

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program

CARP

Service Delivery Network (SDN)

under this setup, every family in a local health system is designated to a health service provider or health facility within the network to ensure sustained access to quality healthcare across political, geographical and administrative boundaries.

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)

the developmental program provides for the disposal of public all enable ad disposable lands with the intent to open up frontier lands for the redistribution of property or rights on private agricultural lands and the abolition of agricultural tenancy.

Social Classes

categorizing individuals or group of people based on factors such as power, wealth, and prestige.

Social Stratification

the hierarchical arrangement and establishment of social categories that may evolve into social groups together with statuses and their corresponding roles in the society.

Upper Class

is described by the sociologists as elite individuals or group of people that are most prolific and successful in their respective areas.

Middle Class

they are able to meet both their needs and wants without even worrying about their finances because of the job and salary they have.

Lower Class

because of the given status in life, these people lack revenue or income and educational training or background. Without the proper education, some of them are jobless or have difficult to find a job in order to make ends meet.

Not a Matter of Individual Differences

people are obviously different from each other, so we might assume that stratification is just a kind of natural outcome of differences but in reality, it is not.

Universal but Variable

it shows up in every society in the world, but how it exactly looks like, how it divides and categories people varies from society to society.

Persists Across Generations

stratification serves to categorize and rank members of society across generations, resulting in different life chance yet generally, society allows some degree of social mobility.

A Social Belief

a society’s cultural beliefs tell us how to categorize people and they define inequalities of a stratification system as being normal, or even fair, if people don’t believe that the system is right, it won’t last.

Close System of Stratification

there is little or no chance for you to move to another level in society. You tend to stay in the class where you were born. There is generally very little you can do to change your social status.

Caste System

on of the best known forms of close system of stratification.

Varnas

includes the four traditional divisions: Bhramin, Kshatryia, Vaishya, and Sudra

Endogamy

marriage within your own caste system/category.

Open System of Stratification

allow people to move from one social level to the next.

Class System

is one of the best examples of an open system of stratification and is not based solely on ascribed status at birth alone.

Ascribed Status

are assigned or given by the society or group based on some fixed category, without regard to a person’s abilities or performance.

Achieved Status

are earned by the individual. It is possible that through hard work and perseverance, a citizen can move up the social hierarchy, and achieve a higher class standing.

Meritocracy

is a system in which social mobility is based on personal merit and individual talents.