COMM ENG REVIEWER Flashcards
(30 cards)
necessarily meant progress to something better so that any change without looking into good or bad is
deemed necessarily positive and beneficial for society to involve.
Social change
Societies tend to move towards a state of internal balance or homeostasis. Until this internal state of internal balance is
reached, society continues to undergo changes making constant adjustments trying to stabilize it from forces that act on
it.
Equilibrium Theory
Economic determinism or economic factors determine the course of social change, which also accounts for social class conflict in a struggle towards control of economic resources that bring about the social changes.
Conflict Theory
Societies fall or lag behind and rise or advance forward depending on how they creatively respond and strategically cope
with - the challenges presented by situations of special difficulty.
Cyclical Theory
- It is a community of persons more or less numerous living in a definite territory and processing an
independent government of their own to which they render habitual obedience.
The State
- found in local territories
Locality-based Community
- A sparse community with a homogenous culture that is localized outside the city area where
social, cultural, and economic development and progress is relatively slow and less dynamic.
Rural Community
- A highly dense community with a heterogeneous culture that is localized in the city area
where social, cultural, and economic development are relatively rapid dynamic.
Urban Community
- all online groups of internet users called “netizens”, who share the resources of the
internet and collaborate and interact through online network channels with a common culture called
cyberculture.
Virtual Community
- communities of social categories to which its members identify with, or social
organizations that they’re affiliated with.
Associational-based Community
- A planned process with the specific purpose of working with identified groups of people to address issues affecting their well-being.
Community Engagement
- It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.
is about valuing our fellow human
beings and respecting who they are as individuals.
Solidarity
- The status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a member of a state or community.
Citizenship
it is a specific legal relationship between a state and a person. It gives that person
certain rights and responsibilities. It does not have to accompany nationality.
Citizenship is a narrower concept:
- is a milestone document in the history of human rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
- Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the
human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world,
Preamble
These are rights that are possessed by every citizen given by God. He created according to his image so
that may live a happy life.
Natural Rights.
These are rights conferred and protected by the constitution and cannot be modified or taken away by the lawmaking body.
Constitutional Rights.
. These are rights provided by laws promulgated by the lawmaking body and, consequently, may be
abolished by the same body.
Statutory Rights
TYPES OF RIGHTS
Natural Rights.
Constitutional Rights.
Statutory Rights
These are rights of the citizens to participate, directly or indirectly, in the establishment or administration of the government.
Political Rights.
These are rights which the law imposes at the instance of private individuals for the purpose of securing to
them the enjoyment of their means of happiness.
Civil Rights.
These are rights intended to ensure the well-being and economic security of the
individual.
Social and Economic Rights.
. These are the rights for the protection of the person accused of any crime.
Right of the Accused
