LET’S

HAVE AN
ACTIVITY!
 Two puzzle pieces
forming a picture and two
situations that will be
dramatize
 Instruction
Form four (4) groups, each group should have a
leader
Leaders will come in front to pick what will be their
task (drama or puzzle)
You have only three (3) minutes to prepare for the
drama
You have only three (3) minutes to finish the puzzle
1. A very good friend of yours visits you and your family
in your house. Your mother, delighted by her presence,
cooks her best dish for her. Your friend loved the whole
lunch that she kept complementing your mother for
such a being a good cook. At the end of her visit, she
approaches your mother and asks, “How much do I pay
you for the lunch you cooked for me?”

What would be your mother’s reaction to your

friend’s gesture? Include a portrayal of this reaction in
your role play.
2. You are going through a very rough time. You feel so down that you
need someone to talk to. You send a text message to your friend asking
her if she could come over to make you feel better. Your friend gives you
a call then tells you she will be there in 20 minutes. You are so happy to
see her, you give her a big hug, then pour your heart out. After crying to
her for a good 30 minutes, she gives some comforting words. You finally
say that you feel so much better. Your friend then says, “That’s good to
know. Now that we’re done, could we settle my expenses for this- 20
pesos for the phone call, 35 pesos for the tricycle ride going to your
place, 20 pesos for all the tissue paper you drew from my tissue pack,
and 10 pesos for the time I lost to working productively because I had to
come here. Thanks.”

What would be your reaction to your friend after she says this?
“So we live in two worlds: one characterized by social
exchanges and the other characterized by market
exchanges. And we apply different norms to these
two kinds of relationships. Moreover, introducing
market norms into social exchanges…violates the
social norms and hurts the relationship. Once this
type of mistake has been committed, recovering a
social relationship is difficult.”

-Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational

 DIFFERENT SOCIAL
RELATIONS AND THEIR
CORRESPONDING
INTERACTIONS

Jurgen Habermas
Kinds of Social Relationship

1. PERSONAL

2. TRANSACTIONAL
 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP

Where interactions are based on a mutual regard for

each other as “persons”

Interactions are defined by “cooperation” rather than by

competition

It also focuses on preservation and development of the

mutual regard for each other
TRANSACTIONAL RELATIONSHIP
Where interactions are based on a regard for each other as
means for attaining one’s goals

Are where persons are “used”

The focuses of a person is using another as a means for

attaining his goals in his success

We put aside personal matters in our interaction

Most cases of this is the atmosphere is “competitive”

TWO TYPES OF INTERACTION IN SOCIETY
KIND OF HOW ONE TREATS THE
SOCIAL RELATION OTHER IN THE SOCIAL
INTERACTION RELATIONSHIP

As an object, a means
Instrumental or Strategic
for attaining one’s goal
Transactional Action
(Subject-object)

As a fellow Subject , a
Communicative action
fellow person
Personal (Intersubjective)
COLONIZATION OF
THE LIFEWORLD BY
THE SOCIAL SYSTEMS
To explain this problem, we need to understand
some basic concepts
(Market, State & Lifeworld)
1. THE SOCIAL SYSTEM OF MONEY
-economic system(the market)

2. THE SOCIAL SYSTEM OF POWER

-political system(the state)

3. THE LIFEWORLD
-everyday world of communicative
relations
• In the market and the state,
relationships are more of
transactional, and so individuals
view each other as means for a
particular goal or end.
 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SOCIAL
SYSTEMS FOLLOW A
SIMPLE & VALUE-FREE LOGIC

• The logic of “having” and “ not having” –(economic)

• The logic of “commanding” and “obeying” –(politics)

 LIFEWORLD

We naturally assume that all who are part of the community
are persons, and must be consciously recognized and
treated as such.

Lifeworlds thrive on mutual recognition.

To manipulate or use another person is a violation of the

person’s humanity.
QUIZ
A. Identification

1. Where interactions are based on a mutual regard for

each other as persons.

2. Where interactions are based on a regard for each

other as means for attaining one’s goals.

3. Kind of interaction in Transactional Relation.

4. Kind of interaction in Personal Relation.

5. A problem when one of the two forms of social

relations takes predominance.
B. True or False

6. In the market and the state are more on personal relation.

7. In the lifeworld the social relation is transactional.

8. In the political system the logic is “having” and “not having”.

9. In economic system the logic is “commanding” and

“obeying’.

10. To manipulate or use another person in the lifeworld is

not to violate the persons humanity.