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What is social change according to the lesson?
What is social change according to the lesson?
- A minor transformation in the economy of a society that includes changes in the nature of economy, economic institutions, economic behavior, or economic relations.
- A major transformation in the social order of a society that includes changes in the nature of society, social institutions, social behavior, or social relations. (correct)
- A transformation in the political order of a society that includes changes in the nature of politics, political institutions, political behavior, or political relations.
- A small transformation in the education of a society that includes changes in the nature of education, educational institutions, educational behavior, or educational relations.
Who said 'Change is the only constant in life'?
Who said 'Change is the only constant in life'?
- Plato
- Karl Marx
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Heraclitus (correct)
What is the concept of Heraclitus' philosophy?
What is the concept of Heraclitus' philosophy?
- Universal Flux and the Identity of Opposites (correct)
- The Concept of Dialectic
- The Concept of Economic Evolution
- The Law of Non-Contradiction
What is the Hegelian Theory based on?
What is the Hegelian Theory based on?
What is the primary means by which people choose their leaders and officials?
What is the primary means by which people choose their leaders and officials?
What is the cause of social change according to the Conflict Theory?
What is the cause of social change according to the Conflict Theory?
What is the result of the clash of a thesis and antithesis according to the Hegelian Theory?
What is the result of the clash of a thesis and antithesis according to the Hegelian Theory?
When was the first democratic election held in the Philippines after World War 2?
When was the first democratic election held in the Philippines after World War 2?
What is the term for the process of removing an elected public official from office?
What is the term for the process of removing an elected public official from office?
What is the minimum number of registered voters required for an initiative in a barangay?
What is the minimum number of registered voters required for an initiative in a barangay?
What is the maximum number of seats a party can win in the House of Representatives?
What is the maximum number of seats a party can win in the House of Representatives?
When was the first synchronous national and local election held under the 1987 Philippine Constitution?
When was the first synchronous national and local election held under the 1987 Philippine Constitution?
What is a common characteristic of collective behavior?
What is a common characteristic of collective behavior?
What is a social movement?
What is a social movement?
What is an example of a new form of media?
What is an example of a new form of media?
What is the name of the author of the poem 'Kung Puntod na ang Bukirin'?
What is the name of the author of the poem 'Kung Puntod na ang Bukirin'?
What is the topic discussed in the URL https://www.virtuallibrary.info/digital-citizenship.html?
What is the topic discussed in the URL https://www.virtuallibrary.info/digital-citizenship.html?
What is the main assumption of the Convergence Perspective in explaining collective behavior?
What is the main assumption of the Convergence Perspective in explaining collective behavior?
What is the primary goal of an Expressive social movement?
What is the primary goal of an Expressive social movement?
What is a necessary condition for collective behavior according to the Value-Added Perspective?
What is a necessary condition for collective behavior according to the Value-Added Perspective?
Which type of social movement aims to change the entire social order?
Which type of social movement aims to change the entire social order?
What is the role of a precipitating crisis in the Emergent Norm Perspective?
What is the role of a precipitating crisis in the Emergent Norm Perspective?
What is the primary goal of a Reform social movement?
What is the primary goal of a Reform social movement?
What drives people to transform the society they are in?
What drives people to transform the society they are in?
What is one of the sources of social, cultural, and political change?
What is one of the sources of social, cultural, and political change?
What is a pressing issue worldwide that threatens sustainability and climate?
What is a pressing issue worldwide that threatens sustainability and climate?
What is a feasible solution to climate change and global warming?
What is a feasible solution to climate change and global warming?
What is the main responsibility of POEA?
What is the main responsibility of POEA?
What is one of the problems faced by OFWs?
What is one of the problems faced by OFWs?
What is the primary goal of the 1995 Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995?
What is the primary goal of the 1995 Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995?
What is citizenship according to the text?
What is citizenship according to the text?
What is one way of fulfilling one's responsibility as a human being?
What is one way of fulfilling one's responsibility as a human being?
What is suffrage?
What is suffrage?
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Study Notes
Social Change
- Official Business People change or transform the society they are in to serve their own purposes
- Causes of social change:
- Technology
- Social institutions
- Population
- Environment
- Sources of social, cultural, and political change:
- Communications
- Gadgets
- Innovations
- Medicine
- Family
- Education
- Media
- Religion
- Health
- Rate of population
- Labor force
- Child population
- Mortality rate
- Natural phenomena
- Disasters and calamities
New Challenges to Human Adaptation and Social Change
- Global issues:
- Global warming
- Transnational migration
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (2015)
- Critical components:
- People (end poverty and hunger in all forms and ensure dignity and equality)
- Prosperity (ensure prosperous and fulfilling lives in harmony with nature)
- Peace (foster peaceful, just, and inclusive societies)
- Partnership (implement the agenda through a solid global partnership)
- Planet (protect our planet's natural resources and climate for future generations)
Responses to Climate Change and Global Warming
- Feasible solutions:
- Mitigation by emissions reduction
- LED adaptation
- Building resilient systems
- Possible future climate engineering:
- Greenhouse gas removal
- Solar radiation management
- Use of renewable energy:
- Solar power
- Wind power
Migration and Human Rights
- POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration) responsible for:
- Processing workers' contracts and pre-deployment checks
- Licensing, regulating, and monitoring private recruitment agencies
- OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration) provides:
- Support and assistance to migrants and their families
- Problems of OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers):
- Excessive placement fees
- Tedious process of securing travel documents and requirements
- Unpaid or delayed wages
- Abusive employers
- Exposure to violence and sexual harassment
- Confiscation of passports by employers
- Involvement in syndicate operations
- Professional extortionists
- Laws protecting OFWs:
- 1995 Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995 (RA No. 8042)
- 2003 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 (RA No. 9208)
- 2003 Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 (RA No. 9189)
- 2003 Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act of 2003 (RA No. 9225)
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
- Responding to social, political, and cultural change:
- Inclusive citizenship
- Participatory governance
- Citizenship:
- Set of rights
- Allegiance, compliance, and cooperation to the state
- Acts of responding:
- Fulfilling your responsibilities as a human
- Educating yourself
- Being proactive in various social, cultural, and political issues
- Reaching out to those in need through different helps
- Respecting different members of our society
- Sharing educational memes, news, and intellectual aids
- Voting
Suffrage and Inclusive Citizenship
- Suffrage:
- Constitutional, civil, and political right
- "Right to vote"
- Inclusive citizenship and participatory governance
- Theories of social change:
- Heraclitus: everything is constantly changing and becoming something other than what it was before
- Hegelian theory: change happens as a new synthesis resulting from the clash of a thesis and antithesis
- Conflict theory: society undergoes evolution when people are not contented with the present economic system
- Scope of suffrage:
- Election: the means by which people choose their leaders and officials
- Plebiscite: the means by which people express their choice over a proposed law
- Referendum: the means by which people ratify a piece of legislation passed by Congress
- Initiative: means by which people directly propose laws for the government to enact
- Recall: an elected public official becomes subject to a process of removal from office
New Forms of Media and Social Networking
- Arts and technology:
- Paintings
- Sculptures
- Poems
- Plays
- Films
- Social media platforms
- Posts, commentaries, rants, reports, informative, and entertaining trendy videos
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