UNDERSTANDING CULTURE,

SOCIETY AND POLITICS

LEARNING ACTIVITY
ADDRESSING SOCIAL INEQUALITY
 WHAT IS SOCIAL INEQUALITY?
Social inequality occurs when source in gran society are distibuted
unavenly, typicaly through norms of allocation that engender specific
patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. It is the
differentiation preference of access of social goods in the society
brought about by power, religion, kinship, prestige race, ethnicity ,
gender age at sexual orientation, and class.social inequality usually
implies to the lack of equality of outcome, but may alternatively be
conceptualized in terms of the lack of equality of access to oppurtunity
Caves, 2004)
LEARNING ACTIVITY 1: VocabulaRISE
COLUMN A
d 1. ACLISO- SOCIAL
e 2. DGRENE- GENDER
c 3. ALLCO- LOCAL
a 4. AUNTILYIEQ- INEQUALITY
b 5.NYTHETCII- ETHNICITY
COLUMN B
a. Unequal opportunity or treatment
based on social, ethnic, racial, or
economic disparity.
b. Ethnic affiliation or distinctiveness.
c. Relating to, situated in, or providing a
service for a particular area, especially the
area near home or work.
d. Relating to the way in which people in
groups behave and interact.
e. Personal traits and social positions that
a society attaches to being female and
male.
LEARNING ACTIVITY 2: GrammaRISE

1. And ethnic categories result of hierarchical place of origin between racial Ethnic inequality
based on skin color or an individual’s is the social distinctions often

 Ethnic inequality is the result of hierarchical social distinctions between racial

and ethnic categories often based on skin color or an individual’s place of origin
culture.

2. Alternatively be conceptualized equality of access the lack of to opportunity Social inequality

of outcome, implies to the lack of but may in terms of

 Social inequality implies to the lack of equality of outcome, but may

alternatively be conceptualized in terms of the lack of equality of access to
opportunity
3. Some races is the belief that of people better than others racism are
 Racism is the belief that some races of people are better than others

4. The society differentiation preference social inequality of access of is the social

goods in
 Social inequality is the differentiation preference of access of social goods in the
society

5. Upper-level management because of discrimination Glass-ceiling is but real

impediment an unofficial to somebody’s advancement into positions

 Glass-ceiling is an unofficial but real impediment to somebody’s advancement

into upper-level management positions because of discrimination.
LEARNING ACTIVITY 3: TWEET ME
IMAGE 3.1

The photo at the left shows

 Gender Inequality, because the supervisor preferred
to hire women than man just because he is sick and
tired of making his own coffee. It cannot help but
implies that women are good only for making coffee.

Welcome to the firm, Marjorie!. The office welcomes you today with open arms to
be a part of our strong team! We hope we can together help the company grow
bigger and wider. Warm welcome and 'congratulations on getting hired.
IMAGE 3.2

This is a classic example of racism.

People discriminate people
because of the ethnicity that they
belong with.
IMAGE 3.3

The photo at the left shows

 Social inequality

Let's see what are the best treatments that can I give you.
LEARNING ACTIVITY 4: COMMENT HERE

React: Heart

Comment: What we see in the picture is the

social worker administered the routinized
monitoring of children's health by giving
them vitamins, deworming, checking their
weight and height, etc.
 REACT: CARE

The picture shows a situation where in a dedicated teacher is lovingly

teaches the out of school youth learners who cannot afford to go to a
formal school due to financial constraint. Also, this is common in a far-
flung community where a formal school is out of their reach. Only a
dedicated teacher can go beyond like this.
PROCESS QUESTIONS:

1.What does each picture portray?

 The picture shows a situation where in a dedicated teacher is lovingly teaches
the out of school youth learners who cannot afford to go to a formal school due
to financial constraint. Also, this is common in a far-flung community where a
formal school is out of their reach. Only a dedicated teacher can go beyond like
this.
 What we see in the picture is the social worker administered the routinized
monitoring of children's health by giving them vitamins, deworming, checking
their weight and height, etc.
PROCESS QUESTIONS:

2. Is gender, ethnic and health care equality present in your community?

Provide instances to justify your answer.
Yes. Like for example, in health care, every children in every household are given
fair treatments by the social workers no matter what status the parents are. On the
other hand, in terms of gender and ethnicity, all are treated equally in our
community.