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The Importance of Feminist

Theory, Hermeneutical
Phenomenology, Human
Environment Systems in
Examining Sociocultural,
Economic, and Political Conditions
Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences – Grade 11
Alternative Delivery Mode
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Quarter 1 – Module 11: The Importance of Feminist Theory, Hermeneutical
Phenomenology, Human Environment Systems in Examining Sociocultural,
Economic, and Political Conditions
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Senior High School

Disciplines and Ideas

in Social Sciences
Quarter 1 – Module 11:
The Importance of Feminist
Theory, Hermeneutical
Phenomenology, Human
Environment Systems in
Examining Sociocultural,
Economic, and Political Conditions
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Welcome to the Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences / Grade 11
Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module The Importance of Feminist Theory,
Hermeneutical Phenomenology, Human Environment Systems in Examining
Sociocultural, Economic, and Political Conditions!
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facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
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What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
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this module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The
language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are
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After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Analyze the basic concepts and principles of the major Social Science ideas;
and
2. Interpret personal and social experiences using relevant approaches in the
Social Sciences.

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What I Know
Identification
Directions: Choose the word(s) of the correct answer. Write the answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
GLOBAL ATTITUDES AND
PRAXEOLOGY ECONOMICS
ENVIRONMENT BELIEFS

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ECONOMIC CULTURAL ECONOMIC

MARKETS
ACTIVITY FEMINISM GROWTH
_______ 1. It is the view that there is a "female nature" or "female essence", attempts
to revalue and redefine attributes ascribed to femaleness.
_______ 2. These are always imperfect, and the impact of economic activity on the
environment depends on which imperfect-market method of environmental
management is being used.
_______ 3. It is so extensive that it produces environmental change at the global
level.
_______ 4. It is also used to describe theories that commend innate differences
between women and men.
_______ 5. This growth necessarily stresses the environment.
_______ 6. It can be seen in turn as exemplary of a hermeneutical approach to
economics.
_______ 7. These are probably have their greatest independent effects over the
longterm, on the time scale of human generations or more.
_______ 8. This responds to the actions of markets, governments, and the
international political economy.
_______ 9. It attempts to explain economic behavior, which arises when scarce
resources are exchanged.
_______ 10. It is regarded as a social science because it uses scientific methods to
build theories that can help explain the behavior of individuals, groups and
organizations.

What’s In
Fill in the Blanks
Directions: Read the paragraph below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the
correct answer.
These tools are best suited to examine the full range of culture in all aspects.
Additional specialized tools include 1. _______, 2. _______, 3. _______, 4. _______,
5. _______, 6. _______, and 7. _______. Important elements of culture to be analyzed

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include religion, mythology, social networks, social conditions, public awareness

and discourse, and institutions of all kinds.
The rational choice approach to politics assumes that individual behavior is
motivated by 8. _______, 9. _______, or, more simply put, 10. _______. As "positive
theory," rational choice is increasingly criticized for its failure to construct a model.

What’s New

Directions: Write down what you know and want to learn about the basic concepts
and principles of the major social science ideas. Do it on a separate sheet of paper.

Human-
Hermeneutical
Feminist Theory Environment
Phenomenology
Systems

Socio-cultural

Economic

Political

What is It

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The Importance of Feminist

Theory, Hermeneutical
Lesson Phenomenology, Human
Environment Systems in
1 Examining Sociocultural,
Economic, and Political
Conditions
Sociocultural factors are customs, lifestyles and values that characterize a society
or group. Cultural aspects include concepts of beauty, education, language, law
and politics, religion, social organizations, technology and material culture, values
and attitudes (Tatad 2016).
Economics is regarded as a social science because it uses scientific methods to
build theories that can help explain the behavior of individuals, groups and
organizations. Economics attempts to explain economic behavior, which arises
when scarce resources are exchanged (Economics Online 2020).
Politics is the activities associated with the governance of a country or other
area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping
to achieve power (Oxford 2020).
Feminist Theory

• Socio-cultural Conditions – Cultural feminism, the view that there is a

"female nature" or "female essence", attempts to revalue and redefine
attributes ascribed to femaleness. It is also used to describe theories that
commend innate differences between women and men (Wikipedia 2020).
• Economic Conditions – Feminist economists study both paid and unpaid
care work. They argue that traditional analysis of economics often ignores
the value of household unpaid work. Feminist economists have argued that
unpaid domestic work is as valuable as paid work, so measures of economic
success should include unpaid work. (Blackwell 2018)
• Political Conditions – Feminist political theory is a diverse subfield of
feminist theory working towards three main goals: To understand and
critique the role of gender in how political theory is conventionally
construed. To reframe and re-articulate conventional political theory in light

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of feminist issues (especially gender equality). To support political science

presuming and pursuing gender equality. (Wikipedia 2020)
Hermeneutical Phenomenology

• Socio-cultural Conditions – The interpretive paradigm and hermeneutic

phenomenological design are the most popular methods used in
international cross-cultural research in healthcare, nurse education and
nursing practice.
Their inherent appeal is that they help researchers to explore experiences.
(Research Gate 2018)
• Economic Conditions – The methodology Austrian economists call
praxeology can be seen in turn as exemplary of a hermeneutical approach to
economics. And all three of these methodological literatures lend support to
a common conclusion that neoclassical economics is badly in need of reform
and that this reform could be described as a restoration of the interpretive
dimension to our economic discourse. (Lavoie 2011)
• Political Conditions – The movement towards practice enables us to
foreground contemporary political practices that may have otherwise been
reduced to mental activity or to the macro-level processes of sociological
analysis. With the emergence of the concept of practice in social and political
theory, new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the individual
and society are beginning to come into focus. Dallmayr (1984) suggests that,
“it is possible to discern a subtle shift of attention in contemporary social
and political thought: a shift involving a progressive deemphasis of
epistemology in favor of pragmatic or “practical” preoccupations”. Here we
see that even in political research, the movement towards practice has
encouraged researchers to challenge the epistemological foundations of their
disciplines. (Arfken 2006)

• Human-Environment Systems

• Socio-cultural Conditions – Beliefs, attitudes, and values related to

material possessions and the relation of humanity and nature are often seen
as lying at the root of environmental degradation. Such attitudes and beliefs
probably have their greatest independent effects over the long-term, on the
time scale of human generations or more. Within single lifetimes, attitudes
and beliefs can have significant influence on resource-using behavior, even
when socialstructural and economic variables are held constant. (Paul C.
Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman 1992)
• Economic Conditions – Economic Growth for the first time in human
history, economic activity is so extensive that it produces environmental
change at the global level; the prospect of further economic growth arouses
concern about the quality of the global environment. Economic growth

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necessarily stresses the environment, but the amount of stress from a given
amount of economic growth depends, among other things, on the pattern of
goods and services produced, the population and resource base for
agricultural development, forms of national political organization, and
development policies. (Paul C.
Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman 1992)
• Political Conditions – The global environment responds to the actions of
markets, governments, and the international political economy. Markets are
always imperfect, and the impact of economic activity on the environment
depends on which imperfect-market method of environmental management
is being used. Governmental structure and policies can also have significant
environmental consequences, both intentional and inadvertent. And the
international political economy, with its global division of labor and wealth,
can promote environmental abuses, particularly in the Third World. The
effects depend on policy at the national level and on the behavior of
particular economic actors. (Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel
Druckman 1992)

What’s More

Word Hunt
A. Directions: Locate the given words in the grid, running in one of different
possible directions horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

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P R A X E O L O G Y
FEMINISM
G O M S I N I M E F

H W L U A E E J H P

S G F I L Z N L E N

T E U A C T V A R T

N L R N T Y I R M N

G P B S Y B R U E S

S M Y O C E O T N L

E A S T U L N L E A

D X C L H I M U U C

U E A J B E E C T I

T V O C L F N O I T

I K T K O S T I C I

T N C I I A A C S L

POLICY

HERMENEUTICS

ATTITUDES

BELIEFS

SOCIOCULTURAL

PRAXEOLOGY

VALUES

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POLITICAL

T Q H E G Y L O W O

A M B W H A H S B P

ENVIRONMENTAL

What I Have Learned

Fill in the Blanks

Directions: Read the paragraph below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the
correct answer. Use a separate sheet of paper.
Sociocultural factors are customs, lifestyles and values that characterize a society
or group. Cultural aspects include concepts of 1. _______, 2. _______, 3.
_______, 4. _______, 5. _______, 6. _______, 7. _______ and 8. _______, 9._______, and
10. _______.

What I Can Do

Essay
Directions: On separate sheet of paper, site a socio-cultural, economic, or political
issue here in the Philippines and in your own opinion, how Feminist Theory,
Hermeneutical Phenomenology, and Human Environment Systems can be applied
on that issue.

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Assessment
True or False
Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Place a T on the line if you think a
statement it TRUE. Place an F on the line if you think the statement is FALSE.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
_______ 1. Political feminism, the view that there is a "female nature" or "female
essence", attempts to revalue and redefine attributes ascribed to
femaleness.
_______ 2. Markets are always imperfect, and the impact of economic activity on the
environment depends on which imperfect-market method of environmental
management is being used.
_______ 3. Cultural activity is so extensive that it produces environmental change at
the global level.
_______ 4. Historical Feminism is also used to describe theories that commend
innate differences between women and men.
_______ 5. Economic growth necessarily stresses the environment.
_______ 6. Praxeology can be seen in turn as exemplary of a hermeneutical
approach to economics.
_______ 7. Technological change probably have their greatest independent effects
over the long-term, on the time scale of human generations or more.
_______ 8. The global environment responds to the actions of markets,
governments, and the international political economy.
_______ 9. Economics attempts to explain economic behavior, which arises
when scarce resources are exchanged.
_______ 10. Sociocultural is regarded as a social science because it uses scientific
methods to build theories that can help explain the behavior of individuals,
groups and organizations.

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Additional Activity
Poster Making
On a separate sheet of paper, illustrate how this pandemic caused a lot of issues
about socio-cultural, economic, and political aspects and what do you think the
best principle (Feminist Theory, Hermeneutical Phenomenology, Human
Environment Systems) to use in understanding/solving these problems.

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What I Know Activity A What I can Do
1 . Cultural Feminism Answer may vary
2 . Markets
3 . Economic Activity Assessment
4 . Cultural Feminism 1 .F
5 . Economic Growth 2 .T
6 . Praxeology 3 .F
7 . Attitudes and Beliefs 4 .F
8 . Global Environment 5 .T
9 . Economics 6 .T
10 . Economics 7 .F
8 .T
9 .T
10 .F
What’s In
1 . Psychology of Religion Additional Activity
2 . Archetypal Psychology Answer may vary
3 . Relational Psychology
4 . Community Psychology
5 . Psychologies of Liberation What I Have Learned
6 . Peace Psychology 1 . Beauty
7 . Eco -Psychology 2 . Education
8 . Self-Interest 3 . Language
9 . Utility Maximization
4 . Law and politics
10 . Goal Fulfillment 5 . Religion
6 . Social organizations
7 . Technology
What’s New 8 . Material culture
Answer may vary. 9 . Values
10 . Attitudes
Answer Key
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References
Arfken, Michael. Political-Practice: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Inquiry
(Dissertation). 2006.
Blackwell, Terry. Gender Development & Globalization. United Kingdom, 2018.
Economics Online. 2020.
https://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Competitive_markets/What_is_econom
ics.html (accessed August 2020).
Lavoie, Don. "The interpretive dimension of economics: Science, hermeneutics, and
praxeology." Springer Link, 2011.
Oxford, Dictionary. "Lexico." 2020.
Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman. Global Environmental
Change: Understanding the Human. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of
Sciences, 1992.
Research Gate. May 2018.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325361906_Using_hermeneutic_
phenomenology_and_the_ethnographic_principle_of_cultural_interpretation_
with_Malaysian_nurses (accessed August 2020).
Tatad, Joana. "“Socio-Cultural Basis of Design of Communities”." 2016.
Wikipedia. 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_feminism (accessed
August 2020).
Wikipedia. 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_political_theory (accessed
August 2020).

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