How do everyday life and relationship mold our realities Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences K to 12 Program

1. Our very interactions shape us: How
do everyday life and relationship
mold our realities
Josefino Tulabing Larena,CPS,CPE,MPA

2. Learning Objectives
• Analyze the role of social interaction in the
shaping of our consciousness and social
reality.
• Highlight what a focus on actors on actors
could provide in interpreting our social world

3. Phenomenology,Symbolic
Interactionism and Rational Choice

4. Phenomenology
• the science of phenomena as distinct from
that of the nature of being.
• an approach that concentrates on the study of
consciousness and the objects of direct
experience.

5. It’s more fun in the Philippines

6. Agency
• A term used in social science that points to
individual human action and the reflexive
aspect of such action.
• Its means that the individual is a self-conscious
and active social actor exercising free will and
making decisions that are less influenced by the
structures found in society

7. The Enigma of Human Action
• Human actions are concrete, physical and
empirical phenomena- observable,sensory
and realistic. They lie on the level of worldly
affairs, of society as material.Moreover,
human action is also a function of
consciousness and senses.

8. Fun

9. The idea of “Phenomenology
• In this fresh translation of five lectures delivered
in 1907 at the University of Göttingen, Edmund
Husserl lays out the philosophical problem of
knowledge, indicates the requirements for its
solution, and for the first time introduces the
phenomenological method of reduction. For
those interested in the genesis and development
of Husserl's phenomenology, this text affords a
unique glimpse into the epistemological
motivation of his work, his concept of
intentionality, and the formation of central
phenomenological concepts

10. Explore Phenomenology
• MRT Experience • Traffic jam

11. Immanuel Kant
• He was a German philosopher
who is considered the central
figure of modern philosophy.
Kant argued that fundamental
concepts of the human mind
structure human experience,
that reason is the source of
morality, that aesthetics arises
from a faculty of disinterested
judgment, that space and time
are forms of our sensibility, and
that the world as it is "in-itself"
is unknowable. Kant took
himself to have effected a
Copernican revolution in

12. Symbolic Interactionism
• Symbolic interactionism is
a sociological perspective
which developed around
the middle of the twentieth
century and that continues
to be influential in some
areas of the discipline. It is
particularly important in
microsociology and social
psychology

14. Symbolic Interactionism today

18. Metro Manila Slum District

19. Rational choice
• Rational choice theory,
also known
as choice theory
or rational action theory,
is a framework for
understanding and often
formally modeling social
and economic behavior.

20. Survivor

23. Thank you so much