ST. VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO
Mamatid, City of Cabuyao, Laguna
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THR REQUIREMENT IN
POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
OF ST.VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO
Presented by:
Last Group
Carl Angelo Ramos
Gary Okit
Jean Villarin
Jasmine Curabo-Ferrer
Presented to:
MR. MANOLO M. CRISCINI
Professor
ST. VINCENT COLLEGE OF CABUYAO HYMN
St. Vincent College of Cabuyao
Our Alma Matter we hail thee
To you we sing the song of love
To you we pledge our faithfulness
Even if we are far away
We will not forget your name
With courage armed with
Knowledge
We will march to the world with
And we your children will always be
Forever loyal unto thee
And with grateful hearts
We sing a song of gratitude
And with hand and hand
We'll sing a song of your praise
All hail beloved St. Vincent
VISION
To be a reputable education institution recognized for its adherence to academic
excellence, environmental sustainability, responsible citizenship and overall
national development.
MISSION
To produce globally- competitive graduates who will be partners in community
development and will contribute to nation-building. SVCC aspires to impart,
cultivate and promote academic discipline, celebrate cultural and religious diversity,
as well as produce broad-based, creative and entrepreneurial leaders for the
knowledge-based global economy. It is committed to an interactive, participates and
technologically enabled learning environment. Towards the end, it will provide a
rewarding and challenging environment for faculty, staff and students to foster and
sustain a passion for excellence.
SUMMARY
A barangay or baranggay, formerly referred to as barrio, is the smallest
administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,
district or ward. In metropolitan areas, the term often refers to an inner city
neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood. The word barangay
originated from balangay, a kind of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples
when they migrated to the Philippines.
Municipalities and cities in the Philippines are subdivided into barangays, with the
exception of the municipalities of Adams in Ilocos Norte and Kalayaan, Palawan
which each contain only one barangay. The barangay itself is sometimes informally
subdivided into smaller areas called purok (English: "zone"), barangay zones
consisting of a cluster of houses, and sitios, which are territorial enclaves—usually
rural—far from the barangay center. As of June 2015, there were 42,029 barangays
throughout the Philippines.
A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and
political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are
grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the
upper, middle and lower classes.
INTRODUCTION
There are three social classes in the country based on income and national wealth.
The members of the rich class represent about 10 percent of the population but own
or earn about 90 percent of the wealth of the country. They are composed of wealthy
industrialists with big corporations and owners of large haciendas or plantations.
The members of the middle class represent about 20 percent of the population. They
are composed of professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.). The members of the lower or
poor class comprise about 70 percent of the population but they only earn or share
10 percent of the wealth. They often cannot earn enough to be able to buy necessities
in life, save for emergencies or for future needs. The poor could become rich by
education and by hard work.
Upper class is the social class composed of those who are rich, well-born, powerful,
or a combination of those. They usually wield the greatest political power. In some
countries, wealth alone is sufficient to allow entry into the upper class. In others,
only people who are born or marry into certain aristocratic bloodlines are considered
members of the upper class and those who gain great wealth through commercial
activity are looked down upon by the aristocracy as nouveau riche. In the United
Kingdom, for example, the upper classes are the aristocracy and royalty, with wealth
playing a less important role in class status. Many aristocratic peerages or titles have
seats attached to them, with the holder of the title (e.g. Earl of Bristol) and his family
being the custodians of the house, but not the owners. Many of these require high
expenditures, so wealth is typically needed. Many aristocratic peerages and their
homes are parts of estates, owned and run by the title holder with moneys generated
by the land, rents or other sources of wealth. However, in the United States where
there is no aristocracy or royalty, the upper class status belongs to the extremely
wealthy, the so-called "super-rich", though there is some tendency even in the
United States for those with old family wealth to look down on those who have
earned their money in business, the struggle between New Money and Old Money.
The upper class is generally contained within the richest one or two percent of the
population. Members of the upper class are often born into it and are distinguished
by immense wealth which is passed from generation to generation in the form of
estates.
The middle class is the most contested of the three categories, the broad group of
people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the lower and
upper classes. One example of the contest of this term is that in the United States
"middle class" is applied very broadly and includes people who would elsewhere be
considered working class. Middle-class workers are sometimes called "white-collar
workers".
Lower class (occasionally described as working class) are those employed in lowpaying wage jobs with very little economic security. The term "lower class" also
refers to persons with low income. The working class is sometimes separated into
those who are employed but lacking financial security (the "working poor") and an
underclass—those who are long-term unemployed and/or homeless, especially
those receiving welfare from the state. The latter is analogous to the Marxist term
"lumpenproletariat". Members of the working class are sometimes called blue-collar
workers.
"Classless society" refers to a society in which no one is born into a social class.
Distinctions of wealth, income, education, culture or social network might arise and
would only be determined by individual experience and achievement in such a
society.
Since these distinctions are difficult to avoid, advocates of a classless society (such
as anarchists and communists) propose various means to achieve and maintain it
and attach varying degrees of importance to it as an end in their overall
programs/philosophy.
Those pictures are the first ones we got asked for the interview. We randomly
selected these two girls and asked for a question about the Social classes in Barangay
Mamatid. So, they explained about the 3 social classes in our society, the First,
Middle, Low class. At the very young age, they know and understand about the
social classes in the Barangay. But then, we are thankful that they respond our
interview.
Here in the second picture, they don’t want to record our video while the
interview has been aired. So, I decided to take a picture while my groupmate ask
for the questions about our topic while I’m observing. We don’t have collect the
information we want to know because the secretary is not authorized to give some
numbers or statistics. Although we got some information and she clearly answer
about the topic. Like from the first interviewees, she talks about the classes of
economic state of every people addressed to Mamatid.
We are lucky to interview Ma’am Ruth Hernandez (wife of our Governor Ramil
Hernandez) In this interview, we didn’t expect that she could have time for us to
interview her. She elaborated a lot, even my groupmate Jean, she not asked for
other questions. Based on Ma’am Ruth’s answer, the people of Mamatid lives in
middle class society. She talked about the balances of our social class. She
compared our society into a pyramid, that in top class have a small population.
But in the lower class, the people suffer because of the inflation, marked up
products, gasoline or diesel, etc.
So, in those 3 interviewees, 2 out of 3 choose middle class. They think that
they’re have enough income and expenses for the family for one whole day. This
is not the official tally of our interview. We based only that we have interviewed
and no other numbers added.
DEDICATION
We will dedicate this research to our Professor in our subject Political
Governance. I hope that you have learned about our topic. “The social classes in the
barangays”. Although that we have a few respondents, I and my team still do our
best to conduct this documentation to give knowledge for the other students. Giving
them information about to our topic such an honor.
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