Social Relationships in Middle and Late Adolescents

Social Relationships in Middle and
Late Adolescents
AT THE END OF THIS MODULE, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
1. DISTINGUISH THE VARIOUS ROLES OF DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETY AND

HOW THEY CAN INFLUENCE PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEADERSHIP OR FOLLOWERSHIP
(ESP-PD11/12SR-IIB- 10.1);
2. COMPARE ONE’S PERCEPTION OF HIMSELF/HERSELF AND HOW OTHERS SEE
HIM/HER
(ESP-PD11/12SR-IIC- 10.2); AND
3. MAKE A REFLECTIVE OPINION ESSAY ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP
The Various Roles of Different Individuals in the
Society and How They Can Influence People Through
Their Leadership or Followership
In here, you are tasked to review how you think and act considering
some factors (parents, peers, culture, and society) that affect you. In most
cases, how does each factor affect your thoughts and action? Provide a
course of action or decision with short explanation relevant to your own
experience.
Scenarios:
1. Choosing your strand/track to take in studying.
2. Joining a club or organization inside and outside school.
3. The way you dress or your clothing style.
PARENTS PEERS

COMMUNITY SOCIETY

 As you grow up, you get to know people and build relationships
by which you have first had with your family. As human
persons, it is expected that you build relationships or social
relationships by which also affect the way you think, decide and
even act on certain things.
 Hence, adolescence is a crucial part of your development as a
person and there different factors or in this matter, called as
social relationships that influence you.
Social relationships are your interactions with other people. These
kind of relationships vary from the “degree of intimacy and
vulnerability you offer to other people so as to cooperate and
achieve a certain objective.”
 There are four (4) main types of relationships that influence you
as an adolescent: (1) Parents, (2) Peers, (3) Community and (4)
Society. However, these factors are shaped by culture. Culture
can have a positive or negative effect on your development.
Now, as you commit into social relationships, you also have
various roles to represent. In the society, you can be someone
based on a social situation that you decide to take. This is what we
call as role(s), as of the following:
 Political leaders
  these are the people who create and
 implement the laws of the land. They are
 the role models through which we follow
 the laws.
 Religious leaders
- These are the individuals who guide their

followers according to their faith. they They are
keepers of religious traditions and are also moral
leaders.
 They are the educators of young minds. They

impart knowledge to the young generation to
become the next generation of leaders.
 Children
 They are the ones that need to be cared more and

ensured that they are supported with services they
mostly need.
 Church members
 They are the people who commit to practice their
faith. They let their faith grow and carry out their
faith traditions.

 Celebrities
They are the people who promote ethical behavior,
responsible personal decisions, social justice. They
are also expected to show good behaviors
 According to Chris Bernard, leadership is the ability of the person in
authority to guide others to achieve certain goals. Leadership is also a way
of influencing other people by which the leader influence the followers to
achieve the organizational goals. Next to leadership is followership which is
the act or condition of following a leader. Being a follower is not passive,
one must be a critical thinker and interactive in the act of helping the leader
achieve the goal. Thus, the leader and the follower need each other; there is a
dynamic relationship of mutual benefit and support between them.
 Nevertheless, being either a leader or follower gives you the
opportunity to influence people around you. Social influence is
the impact of a person to another person which causes the latter
to change his behavior as convinced by the influencer. Some
social influences are known as:
 Conformity - is behaving as others do. This is desiring to
belong to peers and seek their approval in order to feel that you
are one of them.
 Compliance – an individual is doing something that another
individual has told them to do. This is also another way of an
adolescent to feel belong with peers.
 Obedience – this is accepting and doing something directed to
you by a person you look up as someone in authority. In most
cases in obedience, you believe that you don’t have a choice.
 Now, as an adolescent, you must have undergone recognizing
yourself, knowing your strengths and limitations and
discovering about the person you are. By that, you are now
capable of knowing where you stand in either a leader or a
follower by which suits and makes you a better person.
Reflection . . . (Going back to the Trust Walk Game)

 Which did you prefer—leading or being led? Why?
 What responsibilities did you have as the leader? As the person being led?
 What does it take to trust someone to lead you? What does it take to be
trustworthy leader?
 How might these ideas inform our larger class inquiry?

 Merriam-Webster defines perception as a mental image, while self-
perception as the idea about the kind of person someone is.
 Self-concept is the person’s awareness or thinking about himself.
 Self-esteem are the specific evaluations or judgements a person creates
about the self-concept.
 Self-efficacyis developed through experience. This is also about the
person’s extent of seeing himself as an effective individual.
Values are guide to man’s behaviors and actions as they relate with
others in most situations in life. With Filipinos, values are
somehow the symbol of identity which help them keep
harmonious relationships.
Some of the Filipino values that we are known with:
Sense of propriety or ‘hiya’
- A rather positively defined values among Filipinos which means conformity to
the good.
Pakikipagkapwa-tao
- Showing empathy towards and with others.
Hospitality
- One of the values by which Filipinos are famous of; being polite and
accommodating to other people.
Utang na loob
- A sense of obligation to the part of someone being helped with to repay the
one who has done a favor.
Bayanihan
The spirit of communal unity and cooperation.
So to say, Filipino social relationships are like mosaic of different values
that are alive in every Filipino whether whom they are with. A lot of
researchers have already studied about these values and found them unique
to this culture.

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1. DISTINGUISH THE VARIOUS ROLES OF DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETY AND

- These are the individuals who guide their

 They are the educators of young minds. They

 They are the ones that need to be cared more and

 How might these ideas inform our larger class inquiry?

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