UCSP REVIEWER - FINALS

LESSON 7: State and Non-State Institutions

Civil Organizations - They provide facts about the life’s various realities to influence policy-making.

It is True that an institution is composed of formal rules and informal norms or agreed upon understanding that
constraint and prescribe political actors’ behavior and interaction with one another

Banks - It is a financial institution licensed to provide several financial services to different types of customers.

Development Agencies - These are agencies that promote progress by engaging in projects, policymaking, and
dialogue.

State Institutions - This type of institutions have state functions and are established to govern the state including all
other agencies, bureaus and offices.

It is True that the main function of an institution is to keep society in order and implement specific tasks assigned to
them.

Transnational Advocacy Group- It influence the government to take action on matters commonly neglected. A group
maybe a national or international organization that promotes and advocates progress and development related to
particular issues of the society.

Trade Unions - It is an organization composed of workers or employees from related fields, which aims to represent
the interests and rights of its members, both in the workplace and in the society.

LESSON 8: Function of Society

Education - is the process of facilitating.

Formal Education Non-Formal Education

1. Is a classroom-based, structured, and 1.Refers to any educational activity which is not
sequentially graded system of education. structured and takes place outside the formal system.
2. “Secondary Education” 2. “Vocational Education”
3. Mary is in her seventh grade, attends classes 3. Alternative Learning System”
daily, and works hard to get good grades in her 4. Ryan will attend a seminar about the effects of World
eight subjects. War II in the Philippines next month.

LESSON 9 Concept, Characteristics, and Forms of Stratification.

Upper-income class -They are making six-digit figure monthly, but they are not considered among the elite group of
the wealthiest in the Philippines.

*According to the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), the government’s socio-economic
policy think tank, notes that the low-income class has a bigger share of the population because they tend to
have larger families than other social classes.

Stratification- It refers to a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers.

NOT TRUE about Middle-Class Households : They are more dependent on the government.

Monthly income of the rich family: P209,620

Based on the latest Family Income and Expenditure Survey by the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) the
percentage of Filipinos who belong in the low-income class is 58.4%

Lower Income Class - Has a bigger share of the population.

LESSON 10: Government Programs and Initiatives in Local, National, and Global in Addressing Social
Inequalities.

“Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and
ideas and we should all be treated the same way.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”. ----Henry David
“Keep Safe and May God Bless You Always”
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Every third week of July - National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week.

RA 10336 -Accessible polling places exclusively for persons with disabilities and senior citizens.

Social Inequality - Uneven opportunities and rewards for a diverse social positions or statuses within a group or
society.

Scapegoating -Is a situation when people encounter problems that they do not know how to solve.

Prejudice- Negative attitude towards the members of a particular group.

Wealth Inequality - Described on the basis of the unequal distribution of income or wealth, in the most frequently
studied type of social inequality.

Racial and Ethnic Inequality - Is the consequence of hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic
categories within a society and are often recognized based on characteristics such as skin color.

Women’s Education, Development, and Research Association (WEDRA) - This organization focuses on education
and empowerment. They provide scholarships to poor girls and young women, as well as training and education
programs that promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.

CARA Welfare Philippines - A women’s organization that provides services to pregnant women and mothers with
young children.

Regressive income tax – Will not solve the issue on social inequality.

RA 10627- Anti-Bullying Act

LESSON 11: Social Inequalities

Reincarnation - A person is born, lives, dies, and is reborn again many times. Souls are reborn many times until they
are pure enough to be with the creator.

Karma - A person’s social position in the next life is determined by his conduct in the present life.
A. Dharma B. Reincarnation C. D. Laws of Manu

*The caste system is based upon the assumption that all people are NOT created equal.
Vaishyas - These are the traders, merchants and people involved in agricultural production.

According to Nekkerman and Torche there are two approaches to explain why poverty exists: to blame the poor; the
other is to blame the society

Participatory decision-making -This strategy focuses on increasing the voice of the poor. Example is participating in
the local and national elections.

Promotive Action -Media campaigns and advocacy efforts, which identify this kind of discrimination and promote the
participation of these sectors.

Pro-poor fiscal policy - Income redistribution is achieved by fiscal policy.

*It is True that the caste system is a type of social organization/hierarchy in which a person’s occupation and position
in life is determined by the circumstances of his birth.

Dharma - A code of behavior or set of moral and ethical rules that govern the conduct of each social class. Each
group has different set of rules to live by.

Laws of Manu-A Hindu book of sacred law which contains rules and restrictions for daily life.

Human Dignity is “Quality education, basic needs-food, clean water and shelter”

Social Exclusion - “Ethnic inequalities and persons with disabilities”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”. ----Henry David
“Keep Safe and May God Bless You Always”
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