The document outlines the social hierarchy and class structure in the Philippines. It identifies 9 classes, ranging from the tribal class and subsistence class at the bottom to professionals and skilled workers in the middle, and finally the connected and oligarchs who own major businesses and control institutions at the top of society. Power and social status in the Philippines is determined by one's occupation and level of wealth.

1. CULTURE AND
POWER

2. Philippine Social Hierarchy

3. Philippine Class Structure
-The Society of Honor
I. The Tribal Class – mountain or island tribe
II. The Subsistence Class – agrarian and laboring
workers
III. Low-End Skill Workers – masons, carpenters,
store department managers, small store
owners, shop foremen, bus drivers
IV. The Rational Climbers – overseas workers and
Filipinas who marry foreigners

4. Philippine Class Structure
V. Professionals – teachers, doctors, lawyers, business
owners, tech workers, call center managers,
government officials, higher ranked military and police
officers, engineers, journalists, bank managers
VI. The Priests, Imams and assorted Other Men of
Cloth
VII. The Entertainers – a boxer, singers, actors
VIII. The Connected – Legislators, business owners,
media executives, judges, governors, mayors, generals
IX. The Oligarchs – they own television stations, the
telephone companies, the financial institutions, the
shopping malls, the beer company, housing
subdivision