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Trends, Networks and Critical

Thinking in the 21st Century :
Quarter 2 – Module 6
&7: The Self, Others and
the Social Web and
Social Relationships
 What I Need to Know

Hello, learners! Human behavior is affected both by genetic inheritance and by

experience. The ways in which people develop are shaped by social experience and
circumstances within the context of their inherited genetic potential. The scientific
question is just how experience and hereditary potential interact in producing
human behavior.
Any of us cannot live by ourselves. People need somebody’s support to live.
Being a member of a community, people can have a feeling that they are not alone.
Therefore, people can be strong whenever they belong to some kind of community.
In the succeeding lessons, we will deepen a little on the context of this topic
and strengthen your understanding of the self, others and the social web.

The module is divided into four lessons, namely:

PART 1
 Lesson 1 – The Self Into the Social Web
 Lesson 2 – A Society Towards Human Person
 Lesson 3 – Self and Others in the Community
PART 2
 Lesson 1 – Social Relationships Shape the Thinking Process
 Lesson 2 – Social Roles of Students
 Lesson 3 – Social Mapping and Networking

The Self Into The Social Web

Good day, learner! Our previous topic was able to bring out the best in you,
and that was awesome. I know that you are excited to know more but before going
further, try to ponder on this, ―How does the human self reacts to social forces?‖
Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the traits of a person;

2. Explain how mind and social self are shaped by social forces based on
various sociological theories; and
3. Create an action plan as a response to social realities.
 What’s In
Activity 1: “My Connection”
Direction: Below is an organizer that will illustrate how your psychosocial
networks interact. Inside the box, write one experience about the corresponding
emotions to social forces. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

Traits that define a

Description
person
A person having a clear perception of oneself, including
1. Self-awareness
his or her thoughts, emotions, identity, and actions.
This refers to the capability of persons to make choices
2. Self-
and decisions based on their own preferences, monitor
determination
and regulate their actions, and goal-oriented and self-
directed.
3. Free will It is the capacity to choose a course of action from various
alternatives.
4. Consequence The result or effect of an action or condition.
5. Morality The goodness or badness of an act
6. Externality The capability to reach out and interact with others and
the world.
7. Dignity The innate right to be value and respected.

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
A school of thought which views the self as socially constructed in relation to
social forces and structures and the product of ongoing negotiations of meaning.
Thus, the social self is an active product of human agency rather than a
deterministic product of social structure.
PRINCIPLES OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
1. Human beings unlike lower animals, are endowed with a capacity for thought.
2. The capacity for thought is shaped by social interaction.
3. In the social interaction, people learn the meanings and symbols that allow
them to exercise their distinctively capacity for human thought.
4. Meanings and symbols allow people to carry on distinctively human action and
interaction.
5. People are able to modify or alter meanings and symbols that they use in action
and interaction on the basis of their interpretation of the situation.

6. People are unable to make these modification and alterations because, in part,
 of their ability to interact with themselves, which allows them to examine
possible courses of actions, assess their relative advantages and disadvantages,
and then choose one.
7. The intertwined patterns of actions and interaction make up groups and societies.
3 BASIC PREMISES OF NON-SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
1. People act toward the things they encounter on the basis of what those things
mean to them.
2. We learn what things are by observing how other people respond to them that
is through social interaction.
3. As a result of ongoing interaction, the sounds (or words), gestures, facial
expressions, and body postures we use in dealing with others acquire symbolic
meanings that are shared by people who belong to the same culture.

“LOOKING-GLASS SELF”

Developed by Charles Horton Cooley which means - we come to develop a

self- image on the basis of the messages we get from others, as we understand
them.
HUMAN NATURE BEYOND LIMITS
Our mind is an important tool that allows us to go beyond many of our
physical limits. As persons, we are able to exercise our imagination and reflection
to go beyond our own thoughts and experiences. We cannot travel through time,
but we use our minds to daydream, to recall the past and even imagine the future.
We can even think of things that do not exist in reality like fire-breathing dragons,
winger horses, and flying elephants that is because of our ability called
transcendence - the ability to surpass limits. This means overcoming oneself or
being in control even if the body reminds us of certain tendencies.
Theory of Adaptation
Adaptation theory, also known as survival theory or survival of the fittest, is
an organism's ability to adapt to changes in its environment and adjust
accordingly over time. Adaptations occur over generations of a species with those
traits that help an individual animal eat and mate most profusely being passed
down from generation to generation until the whole species changes to be better
suited to their environment.
TYPES OF ADAPTATION:
1. Structural adaptation
A change involving a physical aspect of an organism. The physical
change is often related to a change in the organism's physical environment.
2. Behavioral Adaptation
A change affecting the way an organism naturally acts.
3. Physiological Adaptation
This type of adaptation may be driven by either a change to the
environment or the behavior of another species.
A Society Towards Human Person
What Is It

We are social beings, and thus, our choices are made in the context of social
connections, personal relationships, and physical environments — all of which will
have been influenced by other people.
IMPACTS OF SOCIETY ON HUMAN MIND AND BEHAVIOR
1. SOCIAL
The characteristics of a child's social setting affect how he or she learns to
think and behave, by means of instruction, rewards and punishment, and
example provided by the people around him/her. This setting includes home,
school, neighborhood, and also, perhaps, local religious and law enforcement
agencies.

2. CULTURAL
Every culture includes a somewhat different web of patterns and meanings:
ways of earning a living, systems of trade and government, social roles,
religions, traditions in clothing and foods and arts, expectations for behavior,
attitudes toward other cultures, and beliefs and values about all of these
activities which in turn shape the human person into a social being.
3. CLASS
The class into which people are born affects what language, diet, tastes, and
interests they will have as children, and therefore influences how they will
perceive the social world.
4. TECHNOLOGY
The high value placed on new technological invention in many parts of the
world has led to increasingly rapid and inexpensive communication and travel,
which in turn has led to the rapid spread of fashions and ideas in clothing,
food, music, and forms of recreation. Books, magazines, radio, and television
describe ways to dress, raise children, make money, find happiness, get
married, cook, and make love.
5. GROUPS
People voluntarily join groups based on shared occupations, beliefs, or
interests (such as unions, political parties, or clubs). Membership in these
groups influences how people think of themselves and how others think of
them.
6. SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
 This may serve many purposes beyond those for which they formally exist.
o Private clubs that exist ostensibly for recreation are frequently
important places for engaging in business transactions;
o Universities that formally exist to promote learning and scholarship
may help to promote or to reduce class distinctions;
o Business and religious organizations often have political and social
agendas that go beyond making a profit or ministering to people. In
many cases, an unstated purpose of groups is to exclude people in
particular categories from their activities—yet another form of
discrimination.
7. GOVERNMENTS
Generally attempt to engineer social change by means of policies, laws,
incentives, or coercion. Sometimes these efforts work effectively and actually
make it possible to avoid social conflict. At other times they may precipitate
conflict.
8. EXTERNAL FACTORS
Including war, migration, colonial domination, imported ideas, technology or
plagues, and natural disasters—also shape the ways in which each society
evolves. Natural disasters such as storms or drought can cause failure of
crops, bringing hardship and famine, and sometimes migration or revolution.
9. COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORTATION
Also stimulate social change. Groups previously isolated geographically or
politically become ever more aware of different ways of thinking, living, and
behaving, and sometimes of the existence of vastly different standards of
living. Migrations and mass media lead not only to cultural mixing but also to
the extinction of some cultures and the rapid evolution of others.

SOCIALIZATION
This means being recruited into social practices and learning how to execute
them competently, is how humans ―learn‖ certain priors about the world, as well
as ways of interpreting their own experience.
What’s More

Activity 2: Know How!

Direction: Given the social forces, identify how they mold your self. Do this in a
separate sheet of paper.

SOCIAL FORCES/NETWORS IMPACT TO HUMAN MIND AND BEHAVIOR

FAMILY
CHURCH
SOCIAL MEDIA
PEERS

ROLES IN THE SOCIETY FUNCTIONS

OF COMMUNITY
In sociology, community is defined as a group who follow a social structure
within a society (culture, norms, values, status). They may work together to
organize social life within a particular place, or they may be bound by a sense of
belongingness sustained across time and space.
COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND INDIVIDUAL
ROLES
Community members are the heart of healthy community whom include all
those who live, learn, work, play, and pray together. Two of those salient
community members are the context experts and community historians, where
context experts provide insights into the history and culture of a community and
known to be organizers and networkers; while community historians are known to
bring depth of clout to their constituencies for what worked and did not work in
the past and what solutions will work as to where to access resources within
communities. Moreover, the following are the primary roles an individual should
take part.
► Leadership - Formal leadership role in a community organization, circle
of friends, and often considered as individuals who gets things done and provide
critical insights into the dynamics at play in local communities but will remain as
an inspiration to everyone despite of having an authority and power.
► Civic Engagement – This will give community members power to
improve their community and a say in the policies that will impact their lives with
regards to their financial stability, health, security, and safety.
► Build Relationship – This will equate how the family brought up a well-
mannered and respectful person who will value and create harmonious
relationship. It is the important part of creating change.

What’s More
Activity 3. “Hot Seat!”
Direction: Give your judgement on how will you respond and interact with other
person on the given scenarios below. Write your answer on the provided
worksheet.
A. You won the swimming competition held in your school but you found out
that your co-swimmer had an accident during the contest. How can you
share empathy as a winner?

B. You are about to get married one week from now but your bestfriend had
lost her first born baby and she severely needed you. How can you be
available amid your special marriage preparation?

C. You became a prominent doctor in your community and you went abroad.
You happened to treat your long-lost father who left your mother before you
were born. How can you possibly ensure doing the ethics of care as a
challenged professional and as a broken daughter?

D. You are a pastor in a local church and you have a new church member who
is always alone and does not want to be surrounded by anyone. How will
you free him in the prison of alienation?
 What I Know

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen
letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. It is the main occupation of students.

a. Working
b. Studying
c. Playing
d. Socializing
2. Relationships among family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers,
and other associates are considered as .
a. Social Relationships
b. Thinking Process
c. Social Networking
d. Social Roles
3. When an individual has social relationships, he feels to others.
a. Disappointed
b. Uneasy
c. Reachable
d. Connected
4. The following are social relationships, except .
a. Friends
b. Cashier
c. Classmates
d. Family members
5. A reward of social relationships that helps humans stay
healthy.
a. Material Reward
b. Health Reward
c. Emotional Reward
d. None of the above.
6. People close to an individual can help meet his material needs for
money, food, shelter, and transportation. What reward is this?
a. Material Reward
b. Health Reward
c. Emotional Reward
d. None of the above.
7. As a person interacts with every individual around him, he uses his
on how he will socialize and deals with different attitudes.
a. Communicating Skills
b. Thinking Skills
c. Artistic Skills
d. Writing Skills
8. The following are different ways a student can fulfill social
responsibilities, except .
a. Start from preserving.
b. Contribute to make a difference.
c. Engage in cutting classes.
d. Be a volunteer.
9. Social relationship changes the way people .
a. Eat and drink
b. Talk and laugh
c. Think and act
d. Think and listen
10. Peer reading and read-a-thon program in school and community. Can
be under .
a. Brotherhood and Leadership Camps
b. Health Awareness
c. Literacy Campaign
d. Illegal Drug Campaign
11. This can be used to monitor well-being of the households over time, and
to evaluate how a project affects different social groups.
e. Social Networking
a. Social Role
b. Social Map
c. Social Analysis
12. What social role that helps students promote awareness on protecting
trees and the importance of planting trees for the coming generations?
a. Awareness Program on Clean and Green
b. Brotherhood and Leadership
c. Literacy Campaign
d. Illegal Drug Campaign
13. Our roles in our society are firmly affected by the following, except,
.
a. Peer
b. Family
c. Schools
d. Strangers
14. It is a duty that every individual has to perform so as to maintain a
balance between the economy and the ecosystems.
a. Social Relationships
b. Thinking Process
c. Social Networking
d. Social Roles
15. It is a social role where students may have solemn vow to eradicate
drugs and drinks from their localities.
a. Awareness Program on Clean and Green
b. Brotherhood and Leadership
c. Literacy Campaign
d. Illegal Drug Campaign
 Social Relationships
What’s In
Hello there! Welcome to the first part of this module! It is very exciting to
know how people interacts with anyone that surrounds them. How does a
relationship affect one’s mind and its impact to the whole being? Are you ready to
know? Are you in or out for new learnings? Well, let’s start and do some
challenging activities and discover something new today!

Describe Me!
ACTIVITY 4:

Directions: In a separate sheet of paper, describe what is in the picture by writing

an essay with a minimum of 100 words.

Rubric
Traits Points

Focus & Details 10

Organization 5

Word Choice 5

Total 20

2. Social relationships bring very specific rewards. The rewards they bring
are emotional, material, and physical health.
a. Emotional rewards: relationships give humans emotional support
and encouragement in difficult times.
b. Material rewards: People close to an individual can help meet his
material needs for money, food, shelter, and transportation. When
he feels close to someone, he tends to share these resources in
times of need.
c. Health rewards: Social relationships help humans stay healthy.
According to studies, the more social relationships an individual
has, the greater his ability to fight the common cold. Also, those
individuals with a strong social relationship have been shown
twice as likely to survive after a heart attack than those lacking
strong relationships.

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Social Relationships Shape the
Thinking Process
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Explain how social relationships shape the thinking process; and
2. Illustrate how social relationships shape the thinking process.

What is It

Social Relationships Shape the Thinking Process

 As a person interacts with every individual around him, he uses his

thinking skills on how he will socialize and deals with different
attitudes. Therefore, humans undergo in a process of thinking first
before socializing and interacting with other people around them.

 Social relationship changes the way people think and act. In this
process, an individual will be influenced by the people around him and
change the way he behaves, interacts, and thinks.

 One of the most common reason on why social relationship influence

the way of individual thinking is their peers that surrounds them,
their peers who they bond along the day. Meanwhile, a person has a
capacity to organize his own society is made possible by the ability of
humans to think and execute what they can do. By the power of
human’s brains, they have a considerable degree of awareness and
understanding of what they can achieve.

 Furthermore, social interactions vary and depend upon who they

interact with, if a person’s social relationship with another person is
intimate, the mind will determine how to socialize with that person.

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 What’s More
Fill Me with Actions!
ACTIVITY 5:

Directions: Follow the instructions given below and fill-in in the box with your
own ideas. Do it on a separate sheet of paper.
a. On the upper left side, write how you will socialize with your friends as
you meet them by the alley.
b. On the lower left side, write how you will interact with your teacher as
she gives you instructions.
c. On the lower right side, write how you will deal with your friend when
he/she cries and shares his/her problems with you.
d. On the upper right side, write how will you greet your parents as you
enter the door of your house.

Social Roles of Students

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What’s New

This is me!

Today’s youth is tomorrow’s nation. And today’s youth are you our students.
Students do play a vital role in the society and how a society is shaped
generation after generations.

What is It

Social Network- is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as

individuals or organizations) sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions
between actors.

Social Roles- are the part people play as members of a social group. With
each social role you adopt, your behavior changes to fit the expectations both
you and others have of that role. Each social role carries expected behaviors
called norms.
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 Social Map- is a tool used to identify households based on predefined indicators
relating to socio-economic conditions (e.g. status, skills, property, education,
income, etc.). This can be used to monitor well-being of the households over
time, and to evaluate how a project affects different social groups.

ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF STUDENTS IN SOCIETY

Man belongs to a society, and students are an important part of it. Students
cannot live in complete isolation from the community-life. Even a school-going
student is bound to have links with other people who together form a society.

Studying is the main occupation of students. But, being youthful and

energetic, they can engage themselves in various forms of social works in their
spare time, and in moments of crisis such as this pandemic COVID 19 era.

1. Literacy Campaign and Advocacy

 Student can teach the illiterate to read and write.
2. Health Awareness Campaign and Community Involvement
 Students are enthusiastic about opening blood donation campaign
camps, founding gymnasiums, blind schools, health centers, libraries
and etc.
 Students are expected to come to aid of the distressed during general
crisis like the outbreak of malaria, or floods and earthquake.
3. Awareness Program on Clean and Green
 Students promote awareness on protecting trees and the importance
of planting trees for the coming generations.
4. Brotherhood and Leadership
 Young Children realized the importance of brotherhood and scouting
that have trained them to do real commendable services to the nation.
5. Social Welfare and Charities
 Students raised funds through subscriptions, lottery and for a cause
projects to help the government.
6. Illegal Drug Campaign
 Students may have solemn vow to eradicate drugs and drinks from
their localities. Campaigns were done in schools and communities.
7. Political and Anti-Social Activities
 Students undertake the responsibility of fighting anti-social activities
of a few corrupt politicians. Their voices were heard.
8. Campaign for Patriotism, Love of God and Fellowmen
 Students secure harmony and peace of the nation

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 Different ways a Student can Fulfill Social Responsibilities

1. Start from preserving

2. Be a volunteer
3. Contribute to make a difference
4. Condone any form of bullying

Social Mapping and Networking

What’s In
ACTIVITY 6:

Directions: Answer the following questions based on your understanding. Write

it on a separate sheet of paper.

1. As a student, what are your significant social roles in the community?

2. How can you fulfill your social responsibilities?

SOCIAL MAP AND NETWORKING

Social relationship ties people to each other. Everyone is interconnected

from each other. We learn, adopt and enhance quality of life, coherence, sense of
personal growth, health and educational and economic opportunity.

A social network includes a group of people who cooperate with each

other. They work closely and developed connections and where adaptations of
traits occurred.

Roles in our society is firmly affected by our peers, family, school, religion
and media. It can also be associated with gender, sexuality, and race in social
groups.

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