The document discusses government programs and initiatives aimed at addressing social inequalities at local, national, and global levels, including issues related to social, political, and symbolic capital. It highlights specific government actions such as the Conditional Cash Transfer program and various laws targeting gender equality, minority rights, and support for disadvantaged groups. Additionally, it outlines the Sustainable Development Goals focused on eradicating poverty, ensuring quality education, and promoting gender equality among other objectives.

1. GOVERNMENT
PROGRAMS AND
INITIATIVES IN ADDRESSING
SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

2. MELC
Explain government and programs
and initiatives in addressing social
inequalities in local, national, and
global.

3. OBJECTIVES
a) Identify the social inequalities prevalent in our
society;
b) Identify and describe the programs and
initiatives of the government in addressing
inequalities

4. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
 it is the difference in the distribution of social
desirables such as wealth, power, and prestige.
existence of unequal opportunities and rewards
for different social positions or statuses

5. SOME OF THE SOCIAL
INEQUALITIES
1. Inequality in the access to social, political,
and symbolic capital

6. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
SOCIAL CAPITAL
- the ability of a collective to act together to
pursue common goal.
- example: social status

7. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
POLITICAL CAPITAL
- refers to the trust, good will, and influence
possessed by a political actor, such as politician, to
mobilize support toward a preferred policy outcome.
- Example: governor will be given a
preferential treatment over those with lower

8. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
SYMBOLIC CAPITAL
- refers to the resources that one possesses which
is a function of honor, prestige or recognition, or any
other traits that one values within a culture.
- Example: wealthy people had greater
opportunities

9. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ADDRESSING
THESE INEQUALITIES ARE:
• CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM
- locally known as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
Program (4Ps)
- provides conditional cash grants

10. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ADDRESSING
THESE INEQUALITIES ARE:
• AGRARIAN REFORM IN THE PHILIPPINES
- seeks to solve the centuries-old problem of landlessness in rural
areas.
- Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) initiated in
1987, the government addressed key national goals:
i. promotion of equity and social justice
ii. food security and poverty alleviation

11. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ADDRESSING
THESE INEQUALITIES ARE:
• SK Reform Act of 2015
-provisions that prohibits political dynasty
-run in any Sanggunian Kabataan Office either
elected or appointed

12. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ADDRESSING
THESE INEQUALITIES ARE:
• UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO QUALITY TERTIARY
EDUCATION ACT
-a law that institutionalizes free tuition and exemption
from other fees in state universities and colleges
(SUCs), local universities and colleges (LUCs)
-Give underprivileged Filipino students a chance to
earn a college degree

13. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
2. Minority Groups
- composed of less-dominant classifications in
society that experience disproportionately lower
opportunities than their dominant counterparts

14. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
2. Minority Groups
- Sociologist Louis Wirth (1945) defined a minority group as
“any group of people who because of their physical or
cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the
society in which they live for differential and unequal
treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects
of collective discrimination.

15. SOME RELEVANT ISSUES INVOLVING
MINORITY GROUPS:
1. Gender Equality
- In some countries women are paid relatively lower
than men due to their sexuality and biological
differences.
- LGBT community has always been treated
indifferently and discriminatively

16. PROGRAMS:
• PHILIPPINE PLAN FOR GENDER-
RESPONSIVE DEVELOPMENT (PPGRD)
- Rest on a vision of development that is equitable,
sustainable , free from violence, respectful of human
rights, support of self- determination and the
actualization of human potentials, and participatory
and empowering.

17. PROGRAMS:
• MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
- Is a comprehensive women’s human rights law that
seeks to eliminate discrimination
- through recognition, protection, fulfillment, and
promotion of the rights of Filipino women, especially
those belonging in the marginalized sectors of the
society.

18. PROGRAMS:
• SOGIE BILL
-Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and
Expression Equality Bill
- to prohibit all forms of discrimination and
harassment against the LGBTQIA+ Community

19. PROGRAMS:
• ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND
THEIR CHILDREN (VAWC)
- An act of 2004 under Republic Act No. 9262
- it does not include only physical violence, but
also economic, sexual, and psychological
abuse.

20. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
2. Ethnic Minorities
- Some minorities live traditionalistic lives far away
from the city and technology, and some may appear
differently than usual, they have been consistently
labeled and treated as people with minimal
knowledge and capabilities.

21. PROGRAMS:
• Republic Act 8371, Indigenous Peoples
Rights Act (IPRA) in 1997
o Self-delineation shall be the guiding principle in
identifying and delineating ancestral domains.
o Indigenous cultural communities (ICC) and
Indigenous People (IP) shall have a decisive role

22. SOME OF THE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
2. Other Minorities
- Include people with disabilities or people with
religions that are less prevalent in society
- Experience discrimination at work
- Religious have practices and beliefs that are
disagreed by the majority

23. PROGRAMS:
• Republic Act 9442, an Act Amending Republic
Act No 7277, known as the Magna Carta for
Disabled Persons For Other Purposes’
Granting Additional Privileges and Incentives
and Prohibitions on Verbal, Non-verbal Ridicule
and Vilification Against Persons with Disability.

24. PROGRAMS:
•DepEd adopted the policy to provide special
protection to children
•Enactment of Anti-Bullying Law
To adopt policies to address the existence of
bullying

25. ANALYZING SOCIAL
INEQUALITIES
•The existence of minority groups
in functionalist and conflict
societies are also embedded in
each type of society’s principles.

26. Transforming our World: the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development
• plan of action for people, planet and prosperity.
•It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in
larger freedom.
• Economic, social, and environmental

27. GOALS AND TARGETS
• People
• Planet
• Prosperity
• Peace
• Partnership

28. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-
being for all at all ages

29. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all
women and girls
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable
management of water and sanitation for all.

30. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable
and modern energy for all.
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and
decent work for all.
Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and
sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

31. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable.
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production
patterns.
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and
its impacts

32. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas
and marine resources
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of
terrestrial ecosystems
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalize the global partnership

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