Ucsp m2-m3

• Education


  The social institution that formally socializes members of the society. It also refers to the process through which skills, knowledge, and values are transmitted from the teachers to the learners.
• Formal education


  • Usually takes place in a classroom setting and provided by trained teaching and non-teaching staff
• Elementary education


  The first part of the educational system, includes the first six years of compulsory schooling from grade 1 to grade 6
• Secondary education


  Continuing basic education from the elementary level to four years of junior high school and two years of senior high school
• Tertiary education


  Offered by private and public colleges and universities, most offer 4-year degree programs with two semesters per year
• Vocational education


  Accredited institutions offer technical and occupational education, programs vary in duration from a few weeks to two years
• Non-formal education


  An organized educational activity that takes place outside a formal set up, has no age-limit
• Informal education


  A lifelong process of learning by which every person acquires and accumulates knowledge, skills, attitude from daily experiences
• Special education (SPED)


  Education of persons who are physically, mentally, emotionally, socially or culturally different from "normal" individuals, requires modification of school practices
• Productive citizenry


  An idea that a citizen can create opportunities to become productive
• Self-actualization


  A desire for self-fulfillment, achieved by an individual through realizing their dreams and aspirations in life
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to education, which has to be free and compulsory at least in the primary level
• Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights, it promotes individual freedom and empowerment and yields necessary development benefits
• In the Philippines, primary education is considered a right of a child, enshrined in the 1987 Philippine Constitution
• Differentiation is the method of relating people in terms of a particular social characteristics and then classifying them into social categories based on their characteristics; it does not involve ranking
• Examples of characteristics used for differentiation include sex, age, occupation, education
• Social stratification

  The layering of social categories into higher and lower positions of prestige or respect
• Social stratification


  A society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata/layers, based on their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political)
• Social stratification involves ranking people into higher and lower positions
• Political stratification refers to the unequal distribution of power, authority, and privileges in a society
• Differentiation


  The method of relating people in terms of a particular social characteristics and then classifying them into social categories based on their characteristics; it does not involve ranking
• Social stratification is a society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata/layer, based on their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political)
• Three Social Classes


  • Upper class
  • Middle class
  • Lower class
• Status


  The individual's spot in the social structure
• Ascribed statuses


  Assigned or given by the society or group based on some fixed category
• Achieved statuses


  Earned by the individual
• Prestige

  The evaluation of status
• Esteem


  The assessment of our role behavior
• Political stratification


  The extent to which inequalities are encapsulated in, or influenced by political structures and, processes regarding influence, power and authority
• Social mobility


  The act of moving from one social status to another
• Open class system


  Individuals can change their social class in the society
• Caste and closed-class system


  People can do little or nothing to change their social standing
• Horizontal mobility


  The movement of a person within a social class level
• Vertical mobility

  The movement of a person between social class levels or another class