Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE URDANETA CITY
URDANETA CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Senior High School
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: _________________

Grade and Section: __________________________________________

STUDENT ACTIVITY WORKSHEET QUARTER 2 – Week 4

Learning Area and Grade Level: Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics (Grade 12)
Subject Matter: Social, Local, and Global Inequalities
Learning Competencies:
• Explain government programs and initiatives in addressing social inequalities (e.g. local, national,
global).
Reference: Rovero, Polly Anne F., SHS AIRrs LM, Quarter 2, Module 10, DepEd-SDO La Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M3rEWrPRt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRujcvErg4w
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter10-global-inequality/

Direction: Read the digitized reference above to guide you in answering the questions that follow.
Use one whole sheet of paper to answer Week 3 and 4.

POINTS TO REMEMBER

Social inequality is the state of unequal distribution of valued goods and opportunities. All
societies today have social inequality. In the Philippines for example, according to the ASEAN
Trade Union Council, the Philippines has the highest rate of economic and social inequality in
Southeast Asia. This problem is not limited to personal wealth. Land distribution, educational
and vocational opportunities and basic welfare programs are also affected by the growing
disparity between the Philippines' richest and poorest citizens. Economic and social inequality
are complex problems, but they can be addressed by governments and aid organizations working
together to ensure that opportunities are more readily available for the nation's poorest people.
So what are these programs or initiatives undertaken by the government to address these
inequalities?
Dependency theory also blames colonialism and neocolonialism (continuing economic
dependence on former colonial countries) for global stratification.

Social Inequality includes the following:

• Access to social, political, and symbolic capital.
• Gender inequality, ethnic inequality, and other minorities like persons with disabilities.
• Global inequalities which is the relationship between state and non-state actors in the global
community.

Source: Rovero, Polly Anne F., SHS AIRrs LM, Quarter 2, Module 9, DepEd-SDO La Union
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter10-global-inequality/

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a WW 4: National and Global Knoweldge
Choose the correct answer. Write the letter on your answer sheet: (10 points)

1. It is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social status or positions within a
group or society.
a. global inequality c. income inequality
b. social inequality d. economic inequality
2. This is defined by the World Bank (2011) as when someone lives on less than a dollar a day. The people
in this situation live in lack the basic necessities, which typically include adequate food, clean water,
safe housing, and access to health care.
a. food shortage c. global inequality
b. absolute poverty d. social inequality
3. We can understand social inequality from a macro-sociological perspective because ______________.
a. lived experience is impacted by gender, race and class.
b. we see inequality in everyday life.
c. some people work harder than others.
d. meritocracy is focused on structure rather than individual.
4. Magna carta for disabled persons, and for other purposes’ granting additional privileges and incentives
and prohibitions on verbal, non-verbal ridicule and vilification against persons with disability. Its
objective is to provide persons with disability, the opportunity to participate fully into the mainstream
of society by granting them at least twenty percent (20%) discount in all basic services. Which of the
following inequalities does it addresses?
a. ethnic minority c. global inequality
b. gender inequality d. other minority
5. The department of education has adopted the policy to provide special protection to children who are
gravely threatened or endangered by circumstances which affect their normal development and over
which they have no control, and to assist the concerned agencies in their rehabilitation. This
government initiative wants to address which of the following inequality?
a. inequality in the access to social, political, and symbolic capital
b. gender inequality
c. global inequality
d. other minority
6. Which of the following demonstrate a large pattern of inequality?
a. Social security and other state benefits are given to those who fall below a certain income.
b. In the UK, the top 10 percent get 31 % of all income in the UK while the bottom 10 percent get
just 1 %,
c. In Singapore, the top 20 richest percent of the population are about 10 times richer than the
poorest 20 %.
d. Different countries have the same levels of inequality.
7. The Philippine plan for gender-responsive development (PPGD) rests on a vision of development that is
equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination
and the actualization of human potentials, and participatory and empowering. This Program addresses
the equality between whom?
a. gender c. political ideology
b. ethnicity d. cultural ideology
8. This advocacy outlined by the UN in 2015 committed themselves to 17 life-changing goals, also known
as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Which of the following is not included in their goals?
a. no poverty c. gender inequality
b. no inequality d. sustainability

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 9. Agrarian reform in the Philippines seeks to solve the centuries-old problem of landlessness in rural
areas. Through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) initiated in 1987, the
government addressed key national goals. These are:
a. Address the inequality in labor and gender sensitivity.
b. Promotion of cultural-based work and ethnic identity.
c. Address the needs of the less privilege like those of challenge persons.
d. Promotion of equity and social justice, food security and poverty alleviation in the countryside.
10. The following are included in the Millennium Development Goals signed in the year 2000 except ____.
a. climate action c. eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
b. reduce child mortality d. achieve universal primary education

a PT 4: National and Global Programs

Choose the correct answer name of the program in the box below. (10 points)
1. The Magna Carta of women is comprehensive women’s human rights law that seeks to eliminate
discrimination against women by recognizing, protecting, fulfilling and promoting the rights of Filipino
women, especially those in marginalized sector.
2. An act defining violence against women and their children, providing for protective measures for victims,
prescribing penalties therefore, and for other purposes.
3. An act establishing a national mental health policy for the purpose of enhancing the delivery of integrated
mental health services, promoting and protecting the rights of persons utilizing psychosocial health
services, appropriating funds therefore and other purposes.
4. An act providing for the rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance of disabled persons and their
integration into the mainstream of society and for other purposes.
5. An act to recognize, protect and promote the rights of indigenous cultural communities/indigenous
peoples, creating a national commission on indigenous peoples, establishing implementing mechanisms,
appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes.
6. It aims to protect children enrolled in kindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools and learning
centers (collectively, “schools”) from being bullied. It requires schools to adopt policies to address the
existence of bullying in their respective institutions.
7. An act to institute the policies of overseas employment and establish a higher standard of protection and
promotion of the welfare of migrant workers, their families and overseas Filipinos in distress, and for other
purposes.
8. It means that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering
financial hardship. It includes the full spectrum of essential, quality health services, from health promotion
to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care across the life course.
9. In September 2000, leaders of 189 countries gathered at the United Nations headquarters and signed the
historic declaration, in which they committed to achieving a set of eight measurable goals to combat
common global problems by the target date of 2015.
10. In July 2014, the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) proposed a document containing 17
goals to be put forward for the General Assembly’s approval in September 2015. This document set the
ground for the new goals spanning from 2015-2030.

RA 10627 POEA RA 8042 RA 7277 SDGs RA 11036

MDGs RA 8371 RA 9262 UHC RA 9710 WHO