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Ucsp Lesson 1 Social and Cultural Backgrounds

This document discusses social and cultural backgrounds in terms of gender, socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and religion. For gender, it defines terms like gender sensitive, empowerment, and different gender identities including heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and bicurious. For socioeconomic class, it describes the five classes from A to E and notes the Philippine Statistics Authority now uses high, middle, and low income groups instead. It also outlines average monthly incomes for each group. The document states parts on ethnicity and religions in the Philippines will be discussed but does not provide any details on those topics.

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Ucsp Lesson 1 Social and Cultural Backgrounds

This document discusses social and cultural backgrounds in terms of gender, socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and religion. For gender, it defines terms like gender sensitive, empowerment, and different gender identities including heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and bicurious. For socioeconomic class, it describes the five classes from A to E and notes the Philippine Statistics Authority now uses high, middle, and low income groups instead. It also outlines average monthly incomes for each group. The document states parts on ethnicity and religions in the Philippines will be discussed but does not provide any details on those topics.

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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL

BACKGROUNDS

RONALD B. POLONG, LPT, MSEd.


We are going to discuss the socio-
cultural backgrounds in terms of:
1. Gender
2. Socio-economic Class
3. Ethnicity
4. Religion
Part 1 - Genders
Gender Sensitive
Understanding the differences between
mutually respectful gender roles based on
shared power and not using those roles to
have power over another and restrict his or
her personal growth and self-discrimination.
Not discriminating or stereotyping on the
bases of sex or gender.
Empowerment
The process by which women and men
achieve skills, confidence and support to
determine their own lives and to make their
own choices. It is the state in which people
have access to resources and opportunities
to control their own future.
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining
to, and differentiating between, masculinity and
femininity.
World Health Organization states that sex refers to
biological and physiological characteristics that
define men and women and gender refers to
socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities,
and attributes that a given society considers
appropriate for men and women.
Different Genders
1.Heterosexual
The attraction to a gender different
from their own.
2. Homosexual
The attraction to a gender the same as
their own (commonly used to describe
someone who is gender binary attracted to
the same binary gender. Sometimes
referred to as gay.
3. Lesbian
Women who are attracted
only to other women.
4. Bisexual
When you are attracted to two or more
genders. This term is generally used to
describe being attracted to men and
women, but can apply to being attracted to
two or more genders.
5. Pansexual
When you are attracted to all
genders.
6. Bicurious
People who are open to experiment
with genders that are not only their own, but
do not know if they are open to forming any
sort of relationship with multiple genders
Part 2 – Socio-
Economic Classes
There are 5 socio-economic classes
– Class A, B, C, D and E – when
describing income segments of a
population.
Class A and Class B: What’s the distinction?
We can assume that residents of high end
subdivisions such as Forbes Park, Dasmarinas Village,
Ayala Alabang may be classified as members of
Class A.

But what about multi-millionaires in the provinces


with hectares of land with large mansions? Do they
fall under Class A?
Typically, Class E people are those
with no homes that they can call
their own. They may reside in
squatters areas. They barely posses
any property or asset and they
usually live on a hand-to-mouth
basis.
Meanwhile, the other remaining
income classes, C and D, are vaguely
known. One of them may be called the
“middle class” and the other one is
“masa”.
Instead of dividing the Philippine
population into classes A, B, C, D and E,
the Philippine Statistics Authority
simply grouped the country into three
segments: The High Income, Middle
Income and Low Income groups.
High Income segments are people
earning an average of P200,000 a
month or 2.4 million a year.
The middle income class is said to
earn an average of P36,934 per
month.
The low income segments earns an
average of P9,061 per month.
Part 3 – Ethnic Groups
in the Philippines
Part 4 - Religions in the
Philippines

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