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PRESTIGE
AND
ESTEEM
PRESTIGE & ESTEEM
Prestige
- this refers to the evaluation of status
- an example of this is you have the prestige as the president
whether or not you perform and carry out all the duties
Esteem
- individuals are evaluated on what they do
- the assessment of role behavior
SOCIAL CLASS
– Social Class
This is generally referred to as a number of
people who are grouped collectively
because they have similar professional/
occupational statuses, amount of prestige or
lifestyle
POLITICAL
STRATIFICATION
– It is the extent to which inequalities are encapsulated
in or influenced by political structures and processes
regarding influence, power and authority.
– POWER
- it is the ability to carry out the spirit to delineate and
take charge of activities of other people through various ways
(the right, violence, authority, etc.)
DISCRIMINATION &
PREJUDICE
– DISCRIMINATION
Minorities are being deprived of equal
treatment and are kept in a lower status by the
dominant members of the society and the
resistance of equality
It is a damaging act which takes many forms.
DISCRIMINATION &
PREJUDICE
– PREJUDICE
It is defined as a negative attitude toward the
members of a particular group.
It is a prejudgment of others that allows us to
brand/label them in pessimistic ways. The label maybe
ugly, lazy or dishonest.
It is an attitude.
STEREOTYPING
– This refers to our propensity to picture all members

of a particular category as having same qualities.
– It is the result of overgeneralization.
Example: If we have encountered negative attitudes
with a member of a particular social category, then we
overgeneralized by judging that everyone else in the
category is just like that person.
ETHNOCENTRISM
– It is the belief that our on nation, race or

group is the best.
– It is also a belief that all belong to social or
cultural groups have a tendency to believe
that “we” are better than “they”.
SCAPEGOATING
– This situation is when people encounter problems that

they do not know how to solve.
– This term is taken from the ancient Hebrew custom of
identifying the sins of the people with a goat and then
driving the goat into the wilderness.
– This is an attitude in which you look for someone or
something else to be blamed for your own troubles or
problems.
RACISM
– It is the thinking that one’s own race is

superior and has the right to control or
direct others.
– It maintains the myth that other
people are inferior because of certain
differences.
HOW PEOPLE BECOME
MINORITIES
1.MIGRATION
- when people move or migrate from
one society to another
- this could be voluntary or could be
involuntary
HOW PEOPLE BECOME
MINORITIES
2. COLONIALISM
- This happens when people from
another country decides to settle in a new
land and then take control of the society.
- Examples are the Spanish and
American colonizers.
HOW PEOPLE BECOME
MINORITIES
3. ANNEXATION
- when one country joined or
annexed to another nation in which
usually happens after a war ends.
HOW MINORITIES ARE TREATED
(SIX PATTERNS OF DOMINANT-
MINORITY RELATIONSHIPS)
1.EXTERMINATION
- The most tremendous form of rejection
by dominant members of a society toward
minorities.
- It is the most brutal of all treatments of
minority people
2. EXPULSION
- This is less severe form of rejection
compared to extermination.
- It is the elimination of the minority
group from the dominant society.
3. SEGREGATION
- It is the spatial separation of the minority
from the dominant members of the society.
- It often involves not only housing but also
schools, jobs , transportation, restrooms, theatres
and restaurants.
4. CULTURAL PLURALISM
- It is the acceptance and recognition of
cultural differences in subgroups among the
residents, with no single subgroup
dominating the others
5. ASSIMILATION
- This is the usual pattern of blending or assimilating
in which minorities try to be similar to the dominant
members of society.
6. AMALGAMATION
- It is the blending through accepted intermarriage.
In this process, the differences between dominant and
minority members of society disappear.
DISABILITY
– It is normally a condition either caused by

genetics or disease, accident , trauma
which may hamper a person’s mental,
sensory or mobility functions to carry out
or perform a task in the same way as a
person who does not have a disability
WAYS OF CATEGORIZING
DISABILITY
1. Physical disability(impairment that limits physical functions)
2. Sensory disability (impairment of senses)
a. Vision impairment
b. Hearing impairment
3. Intellectual disability (mental retardation to cognitive deficits)
4. Mental health and emotional disabilities
5. Developmental disability
6. Non- visible disabilities
DISABILITY LAWS
1. Republic Act 10627 (Anti-Bullying Act)

2. Republic Act 10524 (Equal Opportunity Employment )
3. Republic Act 10336 (Accessible Polling Places Exclusively
for Persons with Disabilities and Senior Citizens)
4. Republic Act 10070 (Implementation of Programs and
Services for persons with disabilities in every province,
city and municipality)
SOCIAL CHANGE
– This is any shift in various aspects of the society,

may it be large-scale transformation in social
structure, culture and institutions or small-scale
change in local meanings and interaction.
– It is the significant modification or alteration in the
lifestyle of a society including culture
CAUSES OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
1. Technology
2. Social institution
3. Population
4. Environment
SOURCES OF SOCIAL, CULTURAL
AND POLITICAL CHANGE
1. INNOVATION
- It refers to the use of new techniques to achieve desired ends
2. DIFFUSION
- it refers to the transmission of cultural characteristics or traits from the common
society to all other societies
3.ACCULTURATION AND ASSIMILATION
ACCULTURATION- the process of systematic cultural change of a particular society carried
out by a new or another dominant society
ASSIMILATION- the process wherein an individual loses all the awareness of his previous
group identity and culture and adopt the traditions and attitudes of a new group
SOURCES OF SOCIAL, CULTURAL
AND POLITICAL CHANGE
4. SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS AND TENSIONS

- these ar.e different from all others in
nature because they apply only to humans.
They describe qualities specific to social and
interest groups, social classes and human
social structures
SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS
& TENSIONS
1. Ethnic conflict – conflict between

ethnic groups
2. Gender issues
NEW CHALLENGES TO HUMAN
ADAPTATION AND SOCIAL
CHANGE
ADAPTATION
- it refers to a change or the
process of change by which organism
or species becomes better suited to
its environment
NEW CHALLENGES TO HUMAN
ADAPTATION AND SOCIAL
CHANGE
GLOBAL WARMING
AND CLIMATE
CHANGE
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION &
OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS
MIGRATION- is defined as the process of geographic mobility or the

change of residence of a person from one community to another with
the intention of settling temporarily or permanently.
THREE TYPES OF MIGRATION
1. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION – permanent transfer of residence
from one country to another
2. INTERNAL MIGRATION- a change of residence within a country
3. CIRCULAR MIGRATION- a temporary movement of a person
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS
- those persons who have migrated
from one nation-state to another, live their
lives across borders, participating
simultaneously in social relations that
embed them in more than one nation-state
OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKER

- a Filipino origin works and lives outside the
Philippines
- this term applies to Filipinos who are abroad
indefinitely as citizens or as permanent residents of a
different country and to those Filipino citizens who are
abroad for limited, definite period as workers or
students.

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PRESTIGE

– This refers to our propensity to picture all members

– It is the belief that our on nation, race or

– This situation is when people encounter problems that

– It is the thinking that one’s own race is

– It is normally a condition either caused by

1. Republic Act 10627 (Anti-Bullying Act)

– This is any shift in various aspects of the society,

4. SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS AND TENSIONS

1. Ethnic conflict – conflict between

MIGRATION- is defined as the process of geographic mobility or the

OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKER

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