ST.

ALOYSIUS GONZAGA PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

GUINAYANGAN, QUEZON

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Subject: PHILIPPINE POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
Grade Level and Section: Grade 12-FORTITUDE
Date:

HOOK

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of a Holy Spirit.
O Holy Mary! My Mother; into your blessed trust and special custody; and
into the bosom of your mercy, I this day, and every day, and in the hour of
my death, commend my soul and body. I commit to you all my anxieties and
sorrows, my life and the end of my life, that by your most holy intercession,
and by your merits, all my actions may be directed and govern by your will
and that of your Son. Amen
Marian Prayer of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Source:https://www.catholicdoors.com

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

-Bruce Lee

1. According to Bruce Lee, what does this statement mean? _______________________________________

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ENGAGE

Power in the natural sciences can be easily established through a single equation, which signifies the
quantifiable nature of physical power. Power in society and by extension, the social sciences, on the other hand,
is more complicated because of it is continuously being molded by the dynamic nature of society and the
objective and subjective capacity of man.
Dahl (1950) defined power in society as the ability of person A or institution A to make person B or institution
B, on his/her/its own, would not do. From the said definition, power in society spans a broad spectrum of
meaning that includes force, authority, influence, and most of the time, coercion.
ACTIVITY 1
Determine the situations where there is a clear use of power as defined in political science. Check (/) those
statements that present a clear use of power and put an X mark on those that do not present a clear use of
power.

________1. Your mother asks you to buy flour in the bakery.

________2. Agnes tries to escape a building on fire by breaking the window using her ukelele.
________3. The teacher asks the class to return immediately the classroom globe to its proper place.
________4. Protester on the streets forced the police to direct traffic into an alternate route.
________5. The President made sure that his constituents were happy by giving away cash gifts band other
goods during Christmas.
________6. The stage director decided to kick the lead actor out of the play after 27 retakes.
________7. The 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution displayed unity of the people in ousting a tyrant.
________8. You got into a heated argument after someone accidentally spilled coffee on your pants while you
were on a cafe.
ACTIVITY 2
In their attempt to classify and better understand power, Barnett and Duvall (Pallaver 2011) created the
taxonomy of power with four major types:
1. Compulsory power - the direct control of one actor of the conditions and actions of another.
2. Institutional power- the indirect ways in which an actor affects another. An example is the use of rules or
the law to impose order.
3. Structural power - basically looks at the position and the roles of various actors in relation to each other.
Examples are coach to player, boss to worker or captain to crew relationships wherein the
position of each player toward another provides them roles and responsibilities that they play
even without one coercing the other.
4. Productive power- similar to structural power that looks into the relative position of the actors, the social
production of their roles, and how the roles affect the actors’ perceptions and actions. However,
productive power focuses not on the direct structures provided and accepted by each actor, but on
the discourse between the actors in which power is negotiated.
Skills Workout
1. Coercive power involves the use of force and violence such as use of military and police force in
keeping off mobs and threats to national security.
2. Power of reward involves giving out of incentives to influence the continuation of good behavior such
as handing out of incentives.
3. Legitimate power is widely recognized by certain body of organizations or different governments. This
is the power being held by public officials in states.
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4. Expert power is the power that is acquired by individuals who are masters of different fields of
knowledge. Their expertise enables them top influence certain individuals in society such as a doctor
giving prescription or a teacher educating children.
5. Referent power is basically the power to influence the activity or decision of other individuals by word.
6. Purchasing power is the power to buy certain things. It largely involves money.
Answer the following questions: (Use extra paper for this activity)
A. If you were to quantify power in political science, what would your equation look like? Explain your
answer.
B. How will you quantify power to affect the behavior of other people (e.g., your classmates or group
mates during debates, group projects, school programs)?
C. Power can corrupt an individual. How can a person avoid being corrupted by power given to him/her?
Activity 3
D. Give five instances where each of the types of power as discussed in the skills workout is expressed.
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3. _______________________________________________________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________________________________________________
ACTIVITY

Activity 4
1. In box 1, identify a person who has power over you; in box 2, a person whom you have power over.
Describe what would happen if one does not respect power or misuses it. Write your answer on the lines beside
the box.

1.

YOU

Activity 5
Make a proposal for a simple method of controlling or checking the power of the government to stop
corruption.
Example: Transparency is a government’s obligation to share information with citizens that is needed to make
informed decisions and hold officials accountable for conduct of the people’s business.
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Activity 6
Cite three things that made him a notable person in history and politics.

Mahatma Gandhi

REFLECTION

Activity 7
1. As a grade 12 student, if you have given a chance to hold a power in a government, what would you do?

TRANSFER
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Your work, will be graded using the following rubrics:

Excellent Good Average Fair Poor
5 4 3 2 1

Content
Originality
Relevance to the topic

References: Philippine Politics and Governance (Rex Bookstore) pages 8-15

See you on our next module!

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Lord,
We praise you with your lips, and with our lives and hearts. Or
very existence is a gift from you; to you we offer all that we have
and are. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God. For
ever and ever.
Amen

Fr. James Mallon

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