LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET (LAS)5-Q2

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS 12

Name of Learner:_________________________________________Score:______
Grade and Section:______________________________________Date: ________
School: GMNAS – SHS

New Challenges in Contemporary Societies

Learning Competencies:
* Examine human responses to emerging challenges in contemporary societies

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity sheet the learners should be able to;
1. describe how human societies adapt to new challenges in the physical, social
and cultural environment.
2. analyze how human societies adapt to new challenges in global warming and
climate change.
3. identify the concepts of transnational migration and Overseas Filipino Workers
(OFWs) across the world.
4. value the importance of adaptation in the physical, social and cultural
environment.

Introduction:
This Learning Activity Sheet introduces the learner to the topic on New
Challenges in Contemporary Societies. The discussion of this topic is simplified
for the students to be easily understood. Activity/ exercises at the end of LAS as
self-assessment.

Review:
What are the Government Programs and Suggestions in addressing Social
Inequalities?
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY,
AND POLITICS 12

PREPARED BY:
NORMAN L. CAPONES
SHS- TEACHER I
 What’s In

Before we proceed, let us go back with some of the important concepts about society
on social stratification and inequality which relate our discussion.
According to Marxist Theory, social stratification is created by the differing economic
capacities among people and their relationships to the means or the factors of
production. In a society, two distinct classes can be created which feature those who
own the factors or means of production and those who sell their labor in the
production chain to those who own the means. This basically creates the employer-
employee relation in most societies. Apart from these two distinct groups, Karl Marx
also recognized two other groups that do not belong to either but are somehow
related to the two large groups:

• The Petite Bourgeoisie- those who own some of the means of productions but
their profit earning power is not enough to earn them a position among the
bourgeoisie
• The Underclass- includes those who have no social status

Social Stratification is a form of inequality that occurs due to the inherent differences
between human beings and can be determined by race, gender, age, and economic
capacity among other distinguishing features. The differentiation is done to mark one
group as superior over another which leads to social classes arranged as
hierarchies.

Let’s have a drill!

Where do the following items belong? Is it (A) Bourgeoisie or (B) Underclass?

1. ___Craftsmen 6. ___Merchants
2. ___Artisans 7. ___Landlords
3. ___Wage earners 8. ___Car buyers
4. ___Employer 9. ___Company owners
5. ___Beggars 10. ___Employee

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DISCUSSION:

What’s New
Let’s read the situations and answer the questions below.

1. You are about to go home from school. You decide to buy snacks just before
you ride a bus. You sit near the doorway where you find your convenience of
eating your snacks. When you finished your snacks and about to throw plastic
container of your milk tea, you noticed there was no trash bin inside the bus.
When the bus suddenly stops to unload passengers, you saw huge trash bins
at the unloading station. You are about to stand up to take an opportunity of
throwing your trash but then the bus moves to leave.

Guide Question: As a citizen, how can you protect, conserve, and restore our
environment?
Answer:_______________________________________________________
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2. Your parents found an opportunity to work abroad. They work hard to earn
money for your family. They even save money for your studies to continue
education. There are times they feel homesick as they miss celebrating
occasions like birthdays, Christmas and family reunions. The only way for
them to communicate with you is through Facebook but then they have limited
time to catch even 30 minutes as their boss employer is strict when it comes
to work schedule.

Guide Question: How can you make your OFW feel that they are special and
valuable?
Answer:_______________________________________________________
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 What is It
In this part of your journey, we provide something for you to read to deepen
your understanding about the topic. Please do it with comprehension to discover
knowledge that will help you out in dealing with the next phase of your quest.

New Challenges Contemporary Societies:

Human Adaptation and Social Change

“As human beings we do change, grow, adapt,

perhaps even learn and become wiser.”
- Wendy Carlos

A progressive society requires social change. However, there are challenges

which we must overcome in order to ensure this. With the society’s development
comes a new challenge that everyone must face. Everyone must realize that
responding to social, political, and cultural change has a great impact to the society.
Many of the changes that people have experienced throughout the history
come with numerous challenges which must overcome. It is for this reason that
people devised various ways of dealing with social, political, and cultural change
through involvement and collective action. These actions are what we need in order
to respond to the social, political, and cultural changes that are happening.
Social change, in anthropology and sociology, refers to the modification of
mechanisms, means methods, or systems within the social structure, characterized
by alterations in social relationships, social order social symbols, social
organizations, value system, or rules of behaviour. Examples of social change
include the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement
and the women's suffrage movement, etc.
Cultural change could be seen in the practices, institutions, technology,
societal laws, ethos or mores (moral norms), manners, value systems, customs,
traditions, habits, beliefs, arts, music, and literatures. Some of the examples are
changes in the manner of choosing a spouse and adopting a new lifestyle.
Political Change, on the other hand, denotes alterations in the governmental
aspect of a society, such as changes in the administrative, executive, legislative,
judicial, and constitutional processes, systems, and structures. Examples are
constitutional amendments and the shift from presidential to parliamentary form of
government.

Global Warming and Climate Change

Global warming is generally described as a
gradual increase in the average temperature of the

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Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans. It is mainly caused heat being trapped in the
earth known as greenhouse effect. This environmental change is irreversible, and
later would permanently change the earth’s climate. As such, climate change
becomes a global concern to every nation, especially to those highly industrialized
countries.

Greenhouse Gases and Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse Effect is the process wherein radiation from the earth’s atmosphere
warms its surface to a temperature above what it would be in the absence of its
atmosphere. It is caused by greenhouse gases.

Effects of Climate Change

1. Rainfall patterns
2. Surface temperature and
cyclones
3. Coastline Changes
4. Water level changes
5. Food productivity
6. Forest cover
7. Desertification of lands

Ways to Address Global Warming

1. Current adaptation strategies
Humans have to strategize in order to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
We can adapt through minimizing our carbon emission and adopt a more
environmental-friendly methods of living such as electric-based transportation.
However, adaptation alone is not expected to be able to cope with environmental
effects of climate change since some of the effects of global warming are irreversible
already.
2. Vulnerability of Populations to climate change
Human population is vulnerable to climate change caused by different factors
such as pollution, conflicts, or epidemics. We can engage on sustainable

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development activities, such as reforestation, recycling and the use of renewable
resources to help human societies reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
3. Mitigation and adaptation
Mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gases emission can help to avoid,
reduce or delay impacts of climate change to ensure that the adaptation capacity of
people is maximize in its full efficiency.

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International Agreements

is an
international environmental
treaty adopted on 9 May
1992 and opened for
signature at theEarth
Summit in Rio de
Janeiro from 3 to 14 June
1992

The UNFCCC objective is to "stabilizegreenhouse

gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level
that would prevent
dangerous anthropogenic interferencewith the climate system"

In 2015 the Paris

In 1997, the Kyoto Agreement was
The parties to the Protocol was adopted, governing
convention have met concluded and emission reductions
annually from 1995 established legally from 2020 on through
in Conferences of the binding obligations commitments of
Parties (COP) to for developed countries in
assess progress in countries to reduce Nationally
dealing with climate their greenhouse gas Determined
change. emissions in the Contributions,
period 2008–2012. lowering the target to
1.5 °C.

Although the climate problem will not be solved without government

responses, various private sectors such as business corporations, advocacy groups,

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and other non-governmental institutions are actively engaging to reduce the cause of
climate problem specifically global warming.
Accordingly, the private sectors are particularly important because climate
policy is shared responsibility between the public and private sectors of the society.
The private sector responses also called as private climate governance can be
collaborated with government responses.

Transnational Migration: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)

Since the late 20th century, the rise of globalization has changed the concept
of migration. Improvements in transportation, communication, and financial systems
have made it easier for people to migrate to work in another country but still provide
for their families in their home countries by sending their earning home.
Transnational Migration is a global phenomenon that is mounting scope,
complexity and impact. Migration is both a cause and effect of broader development
processes and an intrinsic feature of our globalizing world.

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)

Filipinos often have the mindset that when they work abroad, they would be
able to support and sustain the needs of the families away from poverty.
Overseas Filipino Workers is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant
workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited
period of employment. OFW Immigrants go to other countries because of poverty.
These people migrate for economic purposes. Their primary goal is to earn much
larger amount of salary to support their families in their home country.
The sacrifices of overseas Filipino
workers (OFWs) make just to provide a better
life for their families earned them the title of
the nation’s bagong bayani (new heroes).In
recent years, the improvement of the
economy often attributed to their remittances
further cemented their mark in the
Philippines. According to the Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration
(POEA), there were a total of 1,844,406
OFWs in 2015 – 1,437,875 land-based and 406,531 sea-based.

Empowering OFWs
Overseas Filipino Workers’ (OFWs) face a lot of challenges as they seek a
better opportunity abroad. Because of difference in social and cultural structures of
other countries, OFWs are prone to violence manifested through labor exploitation,
abuse of employers, leading to some legal issues. Despite the difficulties faced by
the OFWs, they are persistently pursuing to work abroad to lift their families from
poverty. Other OFWs have chosen to work abroad for better salary, which the local

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employers could not provide them. Still, there are OFWs who are forced to work
abroad due to underemployment caused by job mismatch in work opportunity and
workers’ skills in the country. Nonetheless, there are few non-governmental
organizations that continuously provide support system to OFWs to protect their
rights, and assist them to fulfil their employment goals while working abroad.

What’s More

Activity 1: Explore Your Analytical Mind

Direction: Answer the questions based on what you just read.

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having greenhouse gases in

the atmosphere?
Answer:_______________________________________________________
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2. How does global warming and climate change affect human and
environment?
Answer:_______________________________________________________
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3. How do OFWs help to improve the economic status of the Philippines?
Answer:_______________________________________________________
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4. What are the pros and cons of being an OFW in relation to social stratification
and inequality?

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 Answer:_______________________________________________________
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Activity 2: Test your Creativity

Direction: Make a creative piece of work for the following themes. It could be in the
form of poster, slogan, song, or a poem. Write your work in a sheet provided.

1. Saving the earth: Cooling Down Our World!

2. Pinoy Abroad: Economic Heroes of Our Country

CRITERIA FOR GRADING A CREATIVE PRESENTATION

CRITERIA DESCRIPTION POINTS POINTS

OBTAINED
Piece of Work Achieves precision and 10
clarity in presenting
compelling and fully
developed ideas.
Creativity Original, unique, and 5
cogent ideas, phrasing,
and products.
Organization Organization is convincing 5
and well structured.

Total 20

What I Have Learned

Gains for Brains

Direction: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words or phrases to complete the
sentences/ paragraphs.

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In this module, the topic was on_________________________________________.
This discusses about__________________________________________________
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To describe how human in society adapt to new challenges in the physical, social
and cultural environment, I was taught about ______________________________
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Adapting to new challenges in global warming and climate change can be analyzed
through
___________________________________________________________________
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I learned about concepts of transnational migration and Overseas Filipino
Workers (OFWs) across the world which talk about __________________________
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I also learned that it matters to value the importance of human adaptation to new
challenges and change in our society and the world as a whole. Valuing its
importance can really be realized in this module because _____________________
___________________________________________________________________
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_____________.

What I Can Do

COVID-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a new strain of
virus first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. COVID-19 is known to target a person’s
respiratory system. Infected patients may exhibit symptoms such as fever, cough,

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shortness of breath, and in some cases, muscle pain and sore throat. Some patients
may also be asymptomatic. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization
(WHO) has characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic due to the exponential increase
of the number of cases in more than 100 countries. On March16, 2020, President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte placed the entire Philippines under a State of Calamity amid
the threats posed by COVID-19.

Activity 1: S-P-E-C Analysis

Direction: Explain how the statement above affects the social, political,
environmental and cultural settings of the Philippines. Express also your views on
how you going to response to these changes

How COVID-
Explanation: Your Response:
19 affects:

Social Change:

Political
Change:

Environmental
Change:

Cultural
Change:

Activity 2: Challenge Accepted!

Direction: Put a check mark ()on each item if you honestly do the following:

___1. wearing face mask at home and outside the house

___2. washing hands for 20 seconds
___3. drinking a glass of water every 15 minutes of the day
___4. eating fruits and vegetables each day
___5. doing simple body exercise at home

Activity 3: Mind Mapping

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Direction: Create a mind map about the Distance Learning that we have in the
educational system. Consider its significance to the so- called “new normal” life amid
COVID- 19 pandemic. Share your thoughts and feelings to the class.

DISTANCE
LEARNING

Assessment

Direction: Choose one social issue from the ones listed below and write your own
personal and social experience or knowledge based on the lesson. Write your
reflection on a separate sheet of paper.

A. 2018 fourth warmest year in continued warming trend according to NASA,

NOAA
B. Climate change a ‘day-to-day problem’: Duterte
(Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News)
C. OFW in Riyadh cries for help after employer ‘tried’ to kiss her
(Raymon Dullana, Rappler News)

Chosen Topic:_____________________________________________________

CRITERIA FOR GRADING A REFLECTION PAPER

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 CRITERIA DESCRIPTION POINTS POINTS
OBTAINED
The student was able to
choose one scenario and was
Content able to interpret personal and 10
social experiences using
concepts discussed in this
lesson.
Analysis was clear and
concise based on the data
Analysis presented. 6
The paper was well-written
with ideas easily conveyed to
Organization readers. 4

Total: 20

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https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---robangkok/documents/publication/wcms_160330.pdf

Junior, E.C & Clarissa Brandão, C. (2008). “Global Contemporary Challenges Convergences Scenario in International Law”. In
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United Nations. (1994), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Retrieved from https://unfccc.int/process-
and-meetings/theconvention/what-is-the-united-nations-framework-convention-on-climatechange

Prepared by:

NORMAN L. CAPONES
SHS-Teacher II

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