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be able to:
• Structural-functional Theory
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionalist Theory
1. SOFNATCILTIN 6. OMSBICY
2. PTPCEREVIS 7. OMCMITAUNONI
3. ACTSTULRR 8. ERFINCEDE
4. NITOTEIACN 9. AROELINZIT
5. OSTCILOAIZIN 10. TICELTNUELA
1. FUNCTIONALIST 6. SYMBOLIC
2. PERSPECTIVE 7. COMMUNICATION
3. STRUCTURAL 8. DIFFERENCE
4. INTERACTION 9. REALIZATION
5. SOCIALIZATION 10. INTELLECTUAL
Structural-functional Theory
• Intellectual Purposes
• Political Purposes
• Economic Purposes
• Social Purposes
Recall….
• EDSA
• SPANISH OCCUPATION
• WORLD WAR II
• OPLAN-TOKHANG
Conflict Theory
• There are always two
opposing sides in a conflict
situation. Karl Marx
• Conflict is the way to the
establishment of society.
• Unequal groups usually have
conflicting values and
agendas.
How Proponents of Conflict
Theory Regard Education?
• Education must maintain social
inequality and preserve the power
of those who dominate society and
teach those in the working class to
accept their position as a lower
class worker of society
Symbolic Interactionist Theory
1. An individual’s action
depends on meaning.
2. Different people may give
different meanings to the
same thing.
3. Meanings change as George H. Mead
individuals interact with one
another.
Implications to Teaching
• Promote and create opportunities for
genuine interaction among the students.
• Use positive symbols to express trust,
belief in the students’ abilities.
• Symbols should be understood by
others in the way they are intended to
be.
Weakness of Symbolic Interaction
Theory