UCSP - FIRST MONTH (SECOND SEM)
● behavioral
UNIT 1 - STARTING POINTS FOR UNDERSTANDING
CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS
SUBJECTS
- social actors or agents who have the capacity to
understand and reshape their world, in contrast with
objects that are merely acted upon
PAULO FREIRE (2005)
- in his landmark book (Pedagogy of the Oppressed),
“Teachers and students (leadership and people”,
co-intent on reality are both subjects”
- studying society is labeled as “unveiling” reality
GENDER
- DOH 2020 - composite of attitudes and behavior of
men and women (masculinity and femininity)
- WHO 2020 - roles, behaviors, activities, attributes,
and opportunities that any society considers
appropriate for girls and boys, and women and men
- is learned and perpetuated primarily through family,
education, religion (where dominant) is an acquired
identity
SCHOOL FOR THE WOMEN OF MALOLOS
(INSTITUTO DE MUJERES)
- in the days of Jose Rizal, women had to seek
official permission to establish a women’s school
because women then are expected to just finish
basic schooling and become good housewives
“MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND”
- we need money to effectively function as a member
of society–from mere survival through buying basic
necessities, ensuring that our talents and skills are
honed in schools for us to become contributors to
social progress\
7 INCOME CLUSTERS OF “INDICATIVE RANGE OF
MONTHLY FAMILY INCOMES”
● poor
● low income but not poor
● lower middle income
● middle income
● upper middle income
● upper income but not rich
● rich
3 BROADER LABELS
● rich (mayaman)
● middle class (gitnang uri/katamtaman/sakto lang)
● poor (mahirap)
SOCIAL CLASS
- group of people with similar socioeconomic status
or standing within the society based on the level of
income, education, and occupation
- range from low to high and reveal inequalities in
terms of power, influence, and access to resources
- categorizations of socio-economic class
include: dimensions of power, influence, and
access to resources
FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER ONTARIO
NETWORK OF EXPERTISE (FASD ONE) (2020)
CATEGORIES OF EXCEPTIONALITY
● communicative (autism, deaf and hard of hearing,
language impairment, learning disability)
● intellectual (giftedness, mild intellectual disability,
developmental disability)
● physical (physical disability, blind and low vision
2 WAYS OF EXPRESSING SHARED IDENTITIES
1. ETHNICITY - linked with a person’s racial, cultural,
or religious group
2. NATIONALITY - state to which an individual
belongs or shares affiliation
FILIPINO NATIONAL (PH PASSPORT HOLDER)
- kapampangan, tagalog, pangasinense, or maranao
BRITISH NATIONAL (UK PASSPORT HOLDER)
- english, scottish, or welsh, and also BAME (Black,
Asian, and Minority Ethnic people
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- brought the world to a grinding halt
● international tourism is now down
● thousands of business shut down or operate in
reduced capacities
● unemployment rates are everywhere
● tens of thousands of migrant workers are being
repatriated (90,000 filipino)
CHRISTIAN LLOYD MAGSOY (FEBRUARY 2021)
- spokesperson of the broad labor group Defend
Jobs Philippines formally filed a wage hike petition
ISTAMBAY
- unemployed people
- millions of filipinos become istambay for a month or
more, as there is no employment available
TECHNOLOGY
- central to information dissemination and education
RA 10639
- free mobile disaster alerts act
- requires all local telecommunications firms to send
free mobile alerts in the event of natural and
man-made disasters and calamities
INTERNET
- posed to play a major role in education as both
public and private schools adopt online learning
LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS (LGUs)
- accelerated offering local public services–some with
suitable innovation–from free checkups and mass
testing to mobile markets/grocery stores, and from
free public shuttles for workers to free laptop/tablets
for students
KENNETH JIM JOSEPH M. JIMENO
- from the country’s Department of Foreign Affairs
writes that “amid community quarantine’ imposed
by the government to flatten the curve”
POLITICAL DYNASTIES
- always at the top of publicly relevant topics
- dominate the country’s political system from the
local to the national levels

ANTHROPOLOGY
- study of people throughout the world, their
evolutionary history, how they behave, adapt to
different environments, communicate and socialize
with one another
- concerned with the the biological features that
makes us humans (language culture, politics,
family, and religion)
- systematic study of humanity

3 SUBFIELDS
1. SOCIOCULTURAL - interpret the content of
particular cultures
2. BIOLOGICAL - study of variety of aspect of human
evolutionary biology
3. ARCHAEOLOGY - study of material remains of
present and past

SOCIOLOGY
- discipline dealing with the interpretation and
explanation of social action
- action involving orientation to the actions of one or
more other actors
- scientific study of social relations, social institutions,
and societies

POLITICAL SCIENCE
- study of politics and power from domestic,
international, and comparative perspectives
- entails understanding political ideas, ideologies,
institutions, policies, processes, and behavior, as
well as groups, classes, government, diplomacy,
law, strategy, and war