The document discusses several topics related to social change including challenges of contemporary societies, types of social, cultural, and political change, effects of climate change like changes in rainfall and temperature, ways to address global warming through mitigation and adaptation, international agreements like the UNFCCC, and transnational migration through overseas Filipino workers who seek jobs abroad to support their families.
The document discusses several topics related to social change including challenges of contemporary societies, types of social, cultural, and political change, effects of climate change like changes in rainfall and temperature, ways to address global warming through mitigation and adaptation, international agreements like the UNFCCC, and transnational migration through overseas Filipino workers who seek jobs abroad to support their families.
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Lesson 10 New Challenges in Contemporary Societies
The document discusses several topics related to social change including challenges of contemporary societies, types of social, cultural, and political change, effects of climate change like changes in rainfall and temperature, ways to address global warming through mitigation and adaptation, international agreements like the UNFCCC, and transnational migration through overseas Filipino workers who seek jobs abroad to support their families.
The document discusses several topics related to social change including challenges of contemporary societies, types of social, cultural, and political change, effects of climate change like changes in rainfall and temperature, ways to address global warming through mitigation and adaptation, international agreements like the UNFCCC, and transnational migration through overseas Filipino workers who seek jobs abroad to support their families.
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES Lesson 10 - UCSP New Challenges Contemporary Societies: Human Adaptation and Social Change A progressive society requires social change. However, there are challenges which we must overcome in order
to ensure this.
With the society’s development comes a new challenge that
everyone must face.
Everyone must realize that responding to social, political, and
cultural change has a great impact to the society.
New Challenges Contemporary Societies: Human Adaptation and Social Change Many of the changes that people have experienced throughout
the history come with numerous challenges which must overcome.
It is for this reason that people devised various ways of dealing
with social, political, and cultural change through involvement and
collective action.
These actions are what we need in order to respond to the social,
political, and cultural changes that are happening.
Social Change
Social change, in anthropology and sociology, refers to the
modification of mechanisms, means methods, or systems within
the social structure, characterized by alterations in social
relationships, social order social symbols, social organizations,
value system, or rules of behaviour.
Examples of social change include the industrial revolution, the
abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement and the women's
suffrage movement, etc.
Cultural Change
Cultural change, could be seen in the practices,
institutions, technology, societal laws, ethos or mores
(moral norms), manners, value systems, customs,
traditions, habits, beliefs, arts, music, and literatures.
Some of the examples are changes in the manner of
choosing a spouse and adopting a new lifestyle.
Political Change
Political change, on the other hand, denotes
alterations in the governmental aspect of a society,
such as changes in the administrative, executive,
legislative, judicial, and constitutional processes,
systems, and structures.
Examples are constitutional amendments and the shift
from presidential to parliamentary form of government.
Global Warming and Climate Change
Global warming is generally described as a gradual
increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s
atmosphere and its oceans.
It is mainly caused heat being trapped in the earth
known as greenhouse effect.
Global Warming and Climate Change
This environmental change is irreversible, and later
would permanently change the earth’s climate.
As such, climate change becomes a global concern to
every nation, especially to those highly industrialized
countries. Greenhouse Gases and Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Effect is the process wherein radiation
from the earth’s atmosphere warms its surface to a
temperature above what it would be in the absence of
its atmosphere.
It is caused by greenhouse gases.
Effects of Climate Change
1. Rainfall patterns
2. Surface temperature and cyclones
3. Coastline Changes
4. Water level changes
5. Food productivity
6. Forest cover
7. Desertification of lands Ways to Address Global Warming
. Current adaptation strategies
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Humans have to strategize in order to adapt to the
impacts of climate change.
We can adapt through minimizing our carbon
emission and adopt a more environmental-friendly
methods of living such as electric-based
transportation. Ways to Address Global Warming
1. Current adaptation strategies
However, adaptation alone is not expected to
be able to cope with environmental effects of
climate change since some of the effects of
global warming are irreversible already.
Ways to Address Global Warming 2. Vulnerability of populations to climate change Human population is vulnerable to climate change caused
by different factors such as pollution, conflicts, or
epidemics.
We can engage on sustainable development activities, such
as reforestation, recycling and the use of renewable
resources to help human societies reduce their vulnerability
to climate change. Ways to Address Global Warming
3. Mitigation and adaptation
Mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gases
emission can help to avoid, reduce or delay
impacts of climate change to ensure that the
adaptation capacity of people is maximize in its
full efficiency. International Agreements
is an international environmental treaty adopted on
9 May 1992 and opened for signature at the Earth
Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992
International Agreements International Agreements
Although the climate problem will not be solved
without government responses, various private
sectors such as business corporations, advocacy
groups, and other non-governmental institutions
are actively engaging to reduce the cause of
climate problem specifically global warming.
International Agreements
Accordingly, the private sectors are particularly important
because climate policy is shared responsibility between
the public and private sectors of the society.
The private sector responses also called as private climate
governance can be collaborated with government
responses. Transnational Migration: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) Since the late 20th century, the rise of globalization has
changed the concept of migration.
Improvements in transportation, communication, and
financial systems have made it easier for people to
migrate to work in another country but still provide for their
families in their home countries by sending their earning
poverty. Transnational Migration: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) Overseas Filipino Workers is a term often used to refer to
Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who
reside in another country for a limited period of employment.
OFW Immigrants go to other countries because of poverty.
These people migrate for economic purposes. Their primary
goal is to earn much larger amount of salary to support their
families in their home country.
Transnational Migration: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) The sacrifices of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) make
just to provide a better life for their families earned them
the title of the nation’s bagong bayani (new heroes).
In recent years, the improvement of the economy often
attributed to their remittances further cemented their
