1st Quarter Performance Task (COR 14)

Section : SH-302
Group Number : Group 1
Group Members : Mark Vincent L. Bete, Marsyl Mae Z. Abrio, Lady Jinky E Loreno
Noelle Mae S. Funa, Mico A. Kilayco, Charlotte Joyce A. Sumatra

Direction: Analyze the following trends and issues using the lenses of the following
sociological perspectives: Structural Functionalism, Conflict theory, and Symbolic
Interactionism

ISSUES/TRENDS STRUCTUAL CONFLICT SYMBOLIC

FUNCTIONALISM THEORY INTERACTIONISM
COVID-19 According to the As the covid-19 In United States,
Pandemic Philippines Humanitarian strikes, fractures people usually don't
Country Team (2020) and infirmity has wear masks. People
World Health been observed not tend to look at
Organization (WHO) just physically but individuals with the
declared Public Health as well as socially. face mask as a sick
Emergency of Racism has been a person, or criminals
International Concern huge problem to the who wants to hide
(PHEIC) on January 30, world up until now, their identities.
2020. As the pandemic is even during this However, with
building, the Department time of crisis. An interaction with the
of Health (DOH) insures example of this is people, now we see
and monitors public the blaming of this as a normal and
health and the some Pakistanis on must wear mask
Philippines' status. Shia Muslims for when you are going
Moreover, the fight they believe that out.
against Covid-19 Shai Muslims
pandemic has been brought the virus
strengthened through the from Iran to
help of NDRRMC, DND, Pakistan which
DILG, and other causes tensions
government agencies by and conflicts
securing peace and order (Burke, 2020).
including implementing
rules and regulations
addressing this matter.
Press Freedom in In the past month alone, “The Philippine Star Magic artists
the Philippines the National government post themselves on
particularly in Telecommunications shutdown of ABS- social media wearing
ABS-CBN Commission (NTC) CBN reeks of a white shirt with
barred the network from political vendetta by ribbon with the logo
Shutdown
airing shows on its TV President Duterte, of abs-cbn to show
 Plus service and Amcara
Broadcasting Network’s
Channel 43. Another
affiliate of ABS-CBN, Sky
Cable Corporation, has
been ordered to shut
down its direct broadcast
satellite service Sky
Direct.
Despite ABS-CBN’s
president Carlo Katigbak
explaining why the
network failed to air some
of then-presidential
candidate Rodrigo
Duterte’s advertisements
during the 2016 elections
and Reyes detailing the
network’s process behind
verifying information they
report, lawmakers
continue to stifle the
network’s right to deliver
news on the basis of
political bias.
Racial In the view of
Discrimination functionalism, in order to
survive as long as they
have, racial and ethnic
disparities must have
served a significant role.
Of necessity, this notion
is problematic. How will
the constructive
contribution of prejudice
and discrimination to
society be made? A
functionalist can look at
"functions" and
"disorders" triggered by
racial inequality. For
example, Nash (1964)
concentrated his case on
the way racism is
practical for the dominant
group, arguing that
racism justified a racially
segregated society
morally. Consider the
way slave owners in the
who has repeatedly their support to abs-
threatened the cbn not to block its
network for franchise as a treat
criticizing his to a press freedom.
abusive ‘war on
drugs,’” said Phil
Robertson, deputy
Asia director at
Human Rights
Watch. “Congress
should stop ducking
responsibility and
reverse Duterte’s
latest attempt to
muzzle the press,
especially when the
public needs timely
and accurate
information more
than ever.”
Theories of conflict As it was said by
are also related to Phelps (1972,
gender inequality, 659):
social status, [T]he employer
schooling, race, seeking to
and ethnicity. The
maximize the profit
myriad past and
present struggles expected will
between the white discriminate
ruling class and against the
racial and ethnic employer.
minorities will be If he believes that
explored from a blacks or women
conflict theory are less qualified,
perspective of U.S. reliable, long-term,
history, noting etc.,
particular disputes
that have occurred
The average is that
when the dominant
group perceived a of whites and men,
challenge from the respectively, and if
minority group. The there is an
rising power of excessive cost of
black Americans obtaining
following the Civil
 antebellum South War culminated in information about
justified slavery by oppressive Jim the individual
claiming that black Crow laws in the applicants. As a
people were inherently late nineteenth proxy, skin color or
inferior to white slavery century that heavily
sex is taken as
and preferred slavery to restricted black
liberty. political and social
"Not sampled for
power. For relevant data." This
example, despite view does not
the fact that he require employers
conducted complex to hold this view.
surgical tests,
Vivien Thomas Animus racial.
(1910-1985), the
black surgical
technician who
helped create the
revolutionary
surgical procedure
that saves the lives
of 'blue babies' was
listed as a janitor
for several years
and paid as such.
The years after the
Civil War, with
gerrymandering
and voter
intimidation
attempts, have
shown a trend of
attempted
disenfranchisement
.
Gender Inequality In the 1940s and 1950s, Conflict theory Rather than normal
the functionalist viewpoint suggests in the and static, the
on gender inequality was sense of gender meanings attached
most robustly expressed that gender is better to symbols are
and primarily established understood as men socially generated
by the nuclear family seeking to retain and fluid. Because of
model of Talcott Parson. control and this, based on their
The theory implies that privilege to the present assigned
gender differences occur detriment of meanings, we act
as an effective means of women. Men can and respond to
establishing a division of thus be seen as the symbols. In the
labor, or as a social dominant group and sense that gender is
structure under which women as the something we do or
certain segments are inferior group , perform, not
specifically accountable respectively. While something we are,
for certain labor activities. in a hunter-gatherer both masculinity and
To optimize capital and culture, such femininity are gender
 productivity, the division gender roles may identities. The
of labor operates. A have been sociologist Charles
gender structural acceptable, conflict H. Cooley developed
functionalist view of theorists argue that the theory of the
gender inequality applies the only explanation "looking glass self"
the division of labor to for these roles to (1902) in response
view predefined gender exist is that the to this phenomenon.
roles as complementary: dominant group Cooley argued that
women take care of the inherently works to the understanding of
home while men provide retain their power himself or herself by
for the family. Thus and prestige. When a person is largely
gender, like other social dominant groups dependent on the
institutions, contributes to manipulate or way society views
the stability of society as dominate him or her. If society
a whole. subordinate groups, perceives a man as
social problems are masculine in the
created. Their sense of gender, the
method is thus man will regard
normative in that it himself as
prescribes masculine.
adjustments to the Therefore, when
system of power, people perform tasks
promoting a or have features
balance of power based on the role of
between genders. gender assigned to
them, they are said
to be gender (rather
than "doing" gender),
a term first coined by
West and
Zimmerman (1987).
Territorial The Higher ups of the Compare to China, Philippine's
Disputes in the Court or the Arbitral Philippines is just a fisherman that keeps
light of the tribunal constituted under small country that going to West-
Arbitral Ruling in Annex VII to the 1982 lacks of man power/ Philippines Sea to
United Nations soldiers but plenty catch fish.
the West
Convention on Law of the of resources. China Fisherman does not
Philippine Sea Sea (UNCLOS). Helps take advantage on go alone by
the case of West- Philippine's West- themselves on the
Philippine Sea, On 19 Philippine Sea in way there, they
February 2013, China the way of group each other
declared that it would not economic forces, and ride a big boat to
participate in the resources, man catch bigger fish.
arbitration. On 7 power and also in Fisherman in
December 2014, a white production of different places
paper was published by goods. China is come to the same
China to elaborate its more powerful than area and have the
position. On 29 October Philippines in terms same intention even
2015, the arbitral tribunal of Forces and though they not
ruled that it has Wealth. know each other
jurisdiction over the case, names but they
 taking up seven of the 15 know that they have
submissions made by the the same intention
Philippines. As the result that to catch fish and
China has no rights to go home safely.
claim the West-Philippine Even though the
Sea because China has fisherman did not do
no historical rights to it. any harm to the
Scarborough shoal
and to the people of
china who guards
the Sea, they've
been force to leave
in the area.

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Deadline: OCTOBER 30, 2020