THE INDIVIDUALITY OF HUMAN BEING

AND THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXT

SOCIETY

AN ORGANIZED GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOSE MEMBERS

INTERACT FREQUENTLY AND HAVE A COMMON TERRITORY AND
CULTURE, PURPOSE OR INTEREST
 SOCIETY ALSO REFERS TO A COMPANIONSHIP OR FRIENDLY
ASSOCIATION WITH OTHERS, AN ALLIANCE, A COMMUNITY, OR A
UNION
 The human person exists to relate with others.
 The person is by nature a social being because he or she tends to go out of himself
or herself to form bonds and relationships with others.
 Throughout a person's life, he or she experiences a variety of relationships that
help shape him or her as a person.
 As we grow into adulthood, our relationships and responsibilities also change
because we play more significant roles in the communities, we live in
 Nowadays, the emergence of portable computers enables many people to transact
business anywhere
 Researchers suggested, however, that overuse and overexposure to Facebook and
other social media platforms might lead to depression.
 Most of the time, we post our smiling faces, favorite foods, and perfect vacation. We
look at idealized versions of our online friends leaving us feeling less attractive and
less secure about our own status.
 We tend to compare with others how many “likes’’ our post generated. Due to these
comparisons, we become more dissatisfied
Society
 Society also provides you opportunities to further your growth in the
coming years.
An evident influence of society on individuals is the emergence of specific
traits and characteristics unique to a certain society which are manifested by
its members. For example, we Filipinos value our ties with family members.
This is seen in our practice of taking care of our elderly family members.
In relation to this, when someone you did not grow up with ask you to
describe your community, in terms of what makes it special or what it is like
living there, you might refer to the character traits of your neighbors and
family members, or generally of the people
How do individuals form society

For Marx, a primitive communal society is characterized by hunting and gathering materials which are
shared among its members.

With this comes development of agricultural process, leading to the slave society, where
classes of people (slave-owners and slave) form the backbone of the means of production.

After the slave society comes the feudal society, characterized by other classes (rules—kings, lords, among
others and subjects) including the merchants, who generate profit.

The fourth stage of historical material development is the rise of the capitalist society(to gain profit) which
economy involving private property obtained through labor. According to Marx, this labor involves the
alienation of the worker due to wages given in exchange for sustenance, showing how capitalism reduces the
(dignity and creativity of the ) human person to a best.
 FORMS OF SOCIETY

1. Hunting-and-Gathering Societies - people in these societies both hunt for food and gather plants and
other vegetation. They have few possessions other than some simple hunting-and-gathering equipment.
To ensure their mutual survival, everyone is expected to help find food and also to share the food they
find. Members treat each other equally
2. Pastoral Society - people raise and herd sheep, goats, camels, and other domesticated animals and use
them as their major source of food and also, depending on the animal, as a means of transportation
3. Horticultural Society - people use hoes and other simple hand tools to raise crops, task is assigned
according to gender
4. Agrarian or agricultural society –improved technology and use of tools to aid in farming structured
social system often lead to conflict
 FORMS OF SOCIETY

5. Feudal Society - a type of social and political system in which landholders provide land to tenants in
exchange for their loyalty and service
- ownership of the land, vassal (loyal to his lord)served by peasant (workers) higher classes are treated
with respect
6. Industrial Society – specialized machineries, innovations, transportations and communications, capitalist
( most influential)
- On the positive side, industrialization brought about technological advances that improved people’s
health and expanded their life spans. - - As noted earlier, there is also a greater emphasis in industrial
societies on individualism, and people in these societies typically enjoy greater political freedom than
those in older societies.
- On the negative side, industrialization meant the rise and growth of large cities and concentrated poverty
and degrading conditions in these cities
- This urbanization changed the character of social life by creating a more impersonal and less traditional
society.
- Today industrial societies consume most of the world’s resources, pollute its environment to an
unprecedented degree, and have compiled nuclear arsenals that could undo thousands of years of human
society in an instant.
 FORMS OF SOCIETY

7. Post Industrial Society – based on knowledge, information and sale services led by human mind aided by
highly technology, members are having higher educational attainment. Information technology and service
jobs have replaced machines and manufacturing jobs as the primary dimension of the economy

8. Virtual Society – aided with technology and internet.

Human person still remains in the heart of the society as he drives social changes.
 3 Parts of the Soul

 1. Rational – in the head (THINK,REFLECT,ANALYZE AND COMPREHEND)

 2. Spiritual – in the chest (EMOTIONAL)
 3. Appetitive – in the abdomen (PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES)

3 P arts of the Society (Social Classes)

1. Appetitive - part of the soul correspond to the class consisting of merchants and
commoners (those that produce)
2. Spiritual - correspond to the class of the soldiers (those that protect)
3. Rational - part corresponds with the class of guardians ( those that rules).
 The social as a generator of identity
 You are shaped by the society in terms of your identity and values, that is,
you are a product of the social and historical forces that have been there before
you were born, and will continue to be there after you are gone.

 First and foremost, born witless and unawares, in the society that is already there. In other words, the social into
which we were thrown is a given, neither of our own design nor
choosing.

 Slowly as we grow we are taught and we imbibe skills and ways of thinking necessary for our survival and
belongingness: we learn a language, facial and bodily modes of expressions, how properly, how to behave
appropriately

 by the time we think for our own selves the social is already within us:
how we think and the language we use are already marked by our enculturation
and socialization.
 The social as a generator of identity
 Science has greatly influenced the picture we have of human existence and what is essential to humanity.

 Therefore, the difficulty in the period of rapid change challenges us to discover more about what is fundamental to
our existence.

 At present, humanity does not live according to the natural cycles regulated by natural rhythms anymore but,
instead, lives in an artificial environment characterized by the results of technology.

 Martin Heidegger’s call for meditative thinking or philosophical reflection has a very important role in this
connection.
 You have to notice, to observe, to ponder, to awaken an awareness of what is actually taking place around us and in
us