UCSP

Question 1

It is the legal relationship that binds a person and a country.

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Nationality

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The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulations to follow.

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Law

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This refers to the theory, art, and practice of government.

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Politics

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A thing given in recognition of one’s conformity.

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Reward

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A thing given when someone disobeys the law showing non-conformity.

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Punishment

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It refers to the state of being intellectually gifted and/or having physically or mentally challenged conditions.

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Exceptionality

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This refers to social or religious customs prohibiting or forbidding the discussion of a particular practice.

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Taboos

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It is an action that violates social and cultural norms

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Deviancy

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It is defined as the state of having internalized norms as part of social expectations.

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Conformity

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It refers to culturally learned differences between men and women rather than their biological differences.

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Gender

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an individual’s way of life, ranging from the food he or she eats, the clothes he or she wears, and the house where he or she lives.
It also includes both the material and non-material things that he or she possesses or acquires.
Non-material

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Culture

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an organized group or groups of interdependent people who share a common territory, language, and culture, and who act together for collective survival and well-being.

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Society

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The Philippine government has three branches the executive, legislative, and judiciary
refers to the “theory, art, and practice of government,”

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Politics

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is a relatively stable cluster of statuses, general norms, and role behavior, which are involved in the acquisition and exercise of power and decision-making in society (Turner: 215).
The institution that sets up the social norms and values as to who will possess “the monopoly of legitimate use of physical force within a given territory,” how that power is acquired and maintained, and how that power is organized and exercised, comprises the state (Weber: 216).

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Political institution

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is a concrete example of a political institution.
It exercises power especially in relation to governance and decision-making.

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Government

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is manifested in the acquisition of statuses and functions.
defined in democratic principles, is a status granted to individuals or institutions to properly run the government and implement the rule of the law in a society

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Power

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which include senators and congressmen, are given the legislative power to make and pass laws for the executive power to implement, Likewise, the members of the judiciary are tasked to interpret laws in accordance with a society’s standards and norms. With these ascribed roles

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Members of the legislature

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the president or the prime minister serves as the.
functions as the chief executive and the commander-in-chief, especially in policy-making and other matters related to governance and imposition of laws.
leads the military during war and the cabinet during peace.
designates roles for cabinet members to undertake.
given power to approve or veto decisions made by the cabinet or the legislative body.
is also given a check-and-balance power, which means he or she can order the review of other branches of government if they are not executing their functions properly.
The president or prime minister and the members of the cabinet are granted with executive power, which is the right to execute governance and implement laws.

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Head of the government

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socially-constructed characteristics of being male or female (Eccles: 43).
it refers to society’s division of humanity into two distinctive categories based on sex.
serves as a guide on how males and females think and act about themselves; the ways they interact with others; and how they perform their various roles in society.
is the socially-constructed characteristics of being male or female.
gender also operates as a dimension of inequality

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Gender

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vary from one culture to another.

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Gender roles

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chiefly centers on biological differences

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Sex

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refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same socioeconomic privileges in a society. These privileges are due to inherited wealth and/or the occupational status of the breadwinner in the household (Panopio, etc.: 327).

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Socioeconomic Status

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consists of elite families. They are considered the most productive in terms of resource generation and oftentimes very successful in their respective fields of interests and endeavors-be it in agriculture, industry, business, and government.

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The upper class

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The elite has two general types

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the new rich (nouveau riche) and traditional upper class.

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who have humble beginnings and often experienced rags-to-riches turn of fortunes. Hardwork and industry ultimately pushed them to the upper strata of society after amassing wealth, allowing them to enjoy the lifestyle of the traditional upper class

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the new rich

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descendants of powerful elite families who acquired their wealth through inheritance or birthright.

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the traditional upper class

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is composed of small business and industry operators mostly owners and managers, professionals, office workers, and farm owners with income sufficient enough to provide a comfortable and decent living. Filipino overseas workers, who contribute greatly to the remittance economy, are also included in this category.

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The middle class

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Farm employees, skilled and unskilled artisans, service workers, and people who may be unemployed or underemployed or those who belong to indigent (families or informal sectors fall on the lower class Comparatively speaking, this group is the largest in terms of number and relatively earns their living through subsistence (Panopio: 328).

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lower class

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is manifested through the following conditions:(1) a family could hardly eat three decent meals a day; (2) the daily income of the breadwinner could hardly feed the entire family; (3) and the breadwinner does not have a permanent job. Poverty-stricken communities in the country are often attributed to the rising percentage of have-nots in the social class ladder.

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Subsistence lifestyle

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categorization is also used by some academic institutions and think tanks in the Philippines. These categories are best explained by the survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations in 2011.

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the Class A,B,C,D, and E

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are considered high- income groups that represent only 1% of the families in the total population of the Philippines. In 2009, these groups are estimated to have earned an average annual income of 1.8 million pesos and above.

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Classes A and B

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constitutes 9%, with an average annual income of around P600,000.

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Class C

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shares 60% of the total population, with an average income of P190,000 per annum. Lastly, families or individuals who belong in the

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Class D

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category earns a mere P62,000 per year and covers 30% of the total population.

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Class E

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potent cultural concept, expression of the set of cultural ideas held by a distinct ethnic or indigenous group.

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Ethnicity

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refers to people who collectively and publicly identify themselves as distinct and unique based on distinguishable cultural features that set them apart from others, such as language, shared ancestry, common origin, customs, and traditions (Haviland, et. al.: 313). Based on the 2000 census of the National Statistics Office (NSO)

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An ethnic group

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the eight major ethnolinguistic groups

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Tagalog, comprising 28.1% of the population; Cebuano 13.1%; Ilocano 996, Bisaya/Binisaya 7.6%; Ilonggo/Hiligaynon 7.5%; Bikol 66: Waray 3.4%; others 25.3% (CIA).

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organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural, along with associated ceremonial or ritualistic practices by which people try to interpret and/or influence aspects of the universe otherwise beyond human control (Haviland, et. al.: 554).

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Religion

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the state of being intellectually gifted and/or having physically or mentally challenged conditions concerning personality/behavior, communication (learning disability, speech impairment, and hearing problems), intellect (mild intellectual and mental development disabilities), physical appearance (blind-low vision), or a combination of more than one specific exceptionality or disability (MinEd: 2).

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Exceptionality

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the legal relationship that binds a person and a country. It allows the state to protect and have jurisdiction over a person (Wels: 29). For people who are legally born of Filipino parent/s and those naturalized in the country after fulfilling the requirements of residence are granted the nationality of Filipino citizens or naturalized Filipinos. For instance, a Philippine-born Chinese who eventually assumed citizenship as naturalized Filipinos fall on this category. They comprise 4% of the Philippine population today.

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Nationality