Cultural Variations and Social

Differences in Socioeconomic Class

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 Watch and Observe

Watch a short documentary showing

how people from low socioeconomic
classes live daily.

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Act It Out

Take notes using the following guide questions:

● What is the film about?
● Who are the people shown in the documentary?
● Do you know other people who share the same fate? Describe their
situation.
● What did you feel, and what did you want to do after being exposed to
their problem?

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Act It Out
Activation

1. How did the documentary make you feel about the differences in
socioeconomic class in our society and how it affects people's lives?
2. What factors contribute to placing people in their current socioeconomic
class?
3. What can you do as a student to help people with little economic, social, and
cultural capital?

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Defining Socioeconomic Class

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Defining Socioeconomic Class

Socioeconomic class refers

to a category that groups
people into similar
economic, social, cultural,
and political status.

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Defining Socioeconomic Class

The Caste
System

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Defining Socioeconomic Class

Socioeconomic Class in Contemporary Filipino Society

According to Zaide (2005)

Socioeconomic Class Percentage Occupation

wealthy industrialists with big

Upper 10% corporations and owners of large
plantation or haciendas

professionals, skilled and semi-skilled

Middle 20%
workers in offices, factories, or farms

Lower 70% laborers and unskilled workers

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Defining Socioeconomic Class

Karl Marx

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Defining Socioeconomic Class

● Bourgeois
○ owner of the means of production
or the monetary, land, and
technological capital
○ do not have to work yet they
accumulate wealth

● Proletariat
○ do not own the means of production
○ must work and sell their labor
power in order to survive

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Types of Capital

Economic Capital Social Capital Cultural Capital

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Social Implications of Socioeconomic Differences

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KEY MOMENTS

Living Along the Railways

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Stoplight

STOP CONTINUE START

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