MODULE 11:

THE POLITICAL SELF

Reported by:
Valdez, May-ann
Vicente, Francis
Villadres, Joab Adreyel
Villegas, John Mae
INTRODUCTION

THE POLITICAL SELF

Reported by:
Vicente, Francis
 POLITICS
→ activities that relate to
influencing the actions and
policies of a government or
getting and keeping power in a
government (Merriam Webster)
POLITICAL IDENTITY
→ ways in which being a member
of a particular group might
express specific political
opinions and attitudes
(Kristensen 2015)
POLITICAL SELF - ORGANIZATION
→ formation of political
patterns through the local
interactions of the
members only
For many voters, belonging to a political
party is not simply a voting decision.
FACTORS THAT FORM OUR
POLITICAL IDENTITY
1. FAMILY
→ It is where you live. Families are
generally the first, and often the
most enduring, influence on
young people's developing
political opinions.
2. GENDER
→ Most observers believe that
women think the Democrats more
strongly support "women's
issues," such as equal work, equal
pay, and equal legal rights.
3. RELIGION
→ associated with social issues
such as school prayer, abortion,
and divorce, than with
economic issues or foreign
affairs.
Race and Ethnicity
Region
 POLITICAL SELF
→ subdivision of the self that helps an individual
navigate the tension between the competing needs
for assimilation and differentiation in the political
domain.
 NATIONAL IDENTITY
→ person's identity or
sense of belonging to
one state or to one
nation.

Our culture is our identity. (Legarda, 2016) But identity of an

individual is more complex nowadays.
 THE NEED FOR INCLUSION AND
DIFFERENTIATION

A person may feel out of place within the norms

prevailing in his country. (Differentiation)
 THE NEED FOR INCLUSION AND
DIFFERENTIATION

Being different however, will lead to a group that

satisfy both needs.
 THE NEED FOR INCLUSION AND
DIFFERENTIATION

Political subgroups can be organized as a shared

grievance or a collection of shared grievance which
results to politicized identity.
POLITICAL AWARENESS
→ ability to understand
people hidden agendas and
used this knowledge as an
advantage
Political Awareness is a NEED
because:
1. It affects you and everyone around you.
2. Political debates helps navigate own values and
beliefs.
3. It’s one step closer to being less ignorant.
4. This generation care for the future.
ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS

→ also known as Workplace Politics or

Office Politics
→ process and behaviour in human interactions
involving power and authority
The Left and Right Spectrum of
Political Beliefs
1. Communism
→ social organization based on the
holding of all property in
common, actual ownership
being ascribed to the
community as a whole
2. Socialism
→ social organization which
advocates that the means of
production, distribution, and
exchange should be owned or
regulated by the community as a
whole
3. Liberalism LIBER = "free"
→ believe that government is
necessary to protect individuals
from being harmed by others, but
they also recognize that
government itself can pose a
threat to liberty
4. Conservatism
→ political and social philosophy
promoting traditional social
institutions in the context of
culture and civilization
5. Libertarianism
→ collection of political
philosophies and movements that
uphold liberty as a
core principle
6. Fascism
→ characterized by dictatorial power,
forcible suppression of
opposition, and strong
regimentation of society and of
the economy
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LIBERAL VS. CONSERVATIVE
Reported by:
Valdez, May-ann
 CONSERVATIVE
• Right-leaning movement
• characterized by the firm belief
that progress should be
controlled and impeded in order
to preserve traditional values
 LIBERAL
• Left-leaning movement
• open to progress and highly
reliant in the government to
solve problems
DICHOTOMIES OF THE POLITICAL BELIEFS
THAT SHAPE THE
POLITICAL SELF AND IDENTITY
 ON MARRIAGE

Conservatives:
Liberals: Support Strongly influences
same-sex by traditional and
marriage. religious values.
 ON THE CHURCH AND STATE

Liberals: Conservatives:
Support the “separation of
separation of church and state”
church and state. should not be in
the constitution.
 ON OMINENT DOMAIN

Liberals: Conservative:
Government has the Government should
right to use eminent respect ownership and
domain to private property
accomplish a public rights.
end.
 ON HEALTH CARE

Liberals: Conservatives:
Support free or low- Support competitive,
cost government free market
controlled health care system.
health care.
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DICHOTOMIES OF THE POLITICAL
BELIEFS THAT SHAPE THE
POLITICAL SELF AND IDENTITY
(CONTINUATION)

Reported by:
Villegas, John Mae
 ON GUN CONTROL

Gun control (or firearms regulation) is the set

of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture,
sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of
firearms by civilians.
 ON GUN CONTROL

Liberals: Conservatives:
Individuals Individuals have the
do not need guns right
for protection. to defend themselves.
 ON EUTHANASIA

Conservatives:
Liberals: Neither euthanasia nor
Euthanasia physician assisted,
should be suicide should
legalized. be legalized.
 ON THE ECONOMY

Liberals: Conservatives:
Government regulates Free market produces
the economy is higher
best. standard of living.
 ON DEATH PENALTY

Conservatives:
Liberals:
The Death penalty
The Death
is a punishment
penalty should
that fits the crime
be abolished.
of murder.
 ON ABORTION

Liberals: Conservatives:
A woman has An unborn baby,
the right to as a living human being,
decide what happens has separate rights from
with those
her body. of the mother.
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DISCUSSION
Reported by:
Villadres, Joab Adreyel
• Conservative Approach
• Liberal Approach
• Conservative and Liberal Approach differs
toward the future.
• Tradition
• Progress
PHILIPPINE CONTEXT
• Divorce and use of contraceptives
becomes more liberal and opposes
the catholic churches.

• There is no universal opinion about

divorce, etc.
• 73% of Catholics are disagreeing at
the case of 'abortion'

• 76% of the Catholics says no to

marriage of priests and ordination
of women.
• Filipino Catholics
opposes gay marriage
(84%).
DEVELOPING POLITICAL AWARENESS IN
YOUR ORGANIZATION OR GROUPS
1. Be guided by what is important
2. Build a network
3. Watch and learn
4. Handle gossip tactfully
5. Promote yourself tactfully
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