LYCA BACALANDO

Activity 2 (PPT 11/12-lld-6.3)

Ronnel del Rio is a broadcast journalist. He is also blind. A radio journalist for
almost a decade now, Ronnel first became known in 1996 because of his radio
program, “Good Morning Southern Luzon.” A voice of reason and awareness, he
discussed national issues as well as issues that the community of PWDs in the
Philippines faced.

Striving to be a voice for the unheard PWDs in the Philippines, Ronnel pushed
for accessible services not only in his area but in the rest of the country. His resume is
equally impressive. Ronnel is the president of the Philippine Chamber of Massage
Industry for Visually Impaired, is part of the Philippine Coalition on the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a board member of the Philippine
Mental Health Association, president of the Federation of Disabled Persons in Lipa, and
is the chief executive officer of Punlaka — a PWD advocacy group based in Region IV.

A man with much vision for everyone, not just his fellow PWDs, he also works as
a Housing and Homesite Regulatory Affairs Officer for the government of Batangas.
There, he pushed for the Viable Socialized Resettlement Program wherein idle land is
taken under consideration to become housing projects for the underprivileged in
Batangas. Del Rio is also the first blind person to earn a Master’s degree in the
Philippines, having studied Management Technology in De La Salle University in 2003.

Activity 1 (PPT 11/12-llc-6.1)

1. What is intersubjectivity? How is it related with respect?

"Intersubjectivity" has been used in social science to refer to agreement. There is

"intersubjectivity" between people if they agree on a given set of meanings or a
definition of the situation. Similarly, Thomas Scheff defines "intersubjectivity" as "the
sharing of subjective states by two or more individuals."

"Intersubjectivity" can also be understood as the process of so-called

psychological energy moving between two or more subjects. In a room where someone
is lying on their deathbed, for example, the room can appear enveloped in a shroud of
gloom for people interacting with the dying person. The psychological weight of one
subject comes to bear on the minds of others depending on how they react to it, thereby
creating an intersubjective experience that, without multiple consciousnesses interacting
with each other, would be otherwise strictly solitary. Love is a prime example of
intersubjectivity that implies a shared feeling of care and affection, among others.
Intersubjectivity is used in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to represent the
psychological relationship between people. It is usually used in contrast to solipsistic individual
experience, indicating our inherently social being. Intersubjectivity is shared understanding that
helps us relate one situation to another.
The ways intersubjectivity occurs differs across cultures. In some Indigenous American
communities, nonverbal communication is so common that intersubjectivity may occur regularly
amongst all members of the community, in part perhaps due to a "joint cultural understanding" and
a history of shared endeavors. The cultural value of respeto may also help to intersubjectivity in
some communities; unlike the English definition of 'respect,' respeto refers loosely to a mutual
consideration for others' activities, needs, wants, etc. The occurrence of respeto in certain
Indigenous American communities in Mexico and South America may promote intersubjectivity as
persons act in conformance with one another within consideration for the community or the
individual's current needs or state of mind.

2. Do you know people who have disabilities and underprivileged? How do you deal with them?

People with disabilities travel, shop and do business in your community with their friends
and families, just like everyone else. By providing service that welcomes people with disabilities,
you can offer better service to everyone. Treating all your customers with individual respect and
courtesy is at the heart of excellent customer service.

You can broaden your customer base by welcoming everyone to your store, restaurant or
services, including customers with disabilities. By learning how to serve people with disabilities,
you can attract more customers and improve your service to everyone.

Treat people with disabilities with the same respect and consideration you have
for everyone else

Activity 1 (PPT 11/12-llh-8.1)

Everyone at some point in their lives has experienced love, whether they were
loved or have loved. Love seems to be the main underlying goal that we all strive for in
our lifetimes. It is the one thing that we all, as humans, have in common. There are
many different types of love: family love, friendship love, conceptual love, and intimate
love. Many people have a hard time finding words to express this intense feeling
because everyone’s experience and meaning of it is different. The thing is that with love,
it is not positive or negative; it seems to have its ups and downs. However, we still go
throughout life searching for it, without ever giving up. Family love is unconditional,
meaning it is timeless, and everlasting. It is a feeling shared between a young girl
listening to her grandfather stories of the olden days. It may even be the strict rules that
a parent enforces, that a child feels are unfair. The great part of this love is that you can
be yourself, make mistakes, and you will always be forgiven

I think that deep down we all want fame, or at least more attention. That may be
why now, more than ever, girls and boys on Myspace.com and many other social
networking websites have been adding thousands of strangers to raise their friend
count, picture comments, and popularity. I have a few of these girls as friends, and
many of them seem to always want something from their many friends. They might say
one day, “I really need a favor, someone help me?” Odds are, at least one person out of
her 100,000 friends could help her out. They call themselves famous, even though you
wouldn’t know their name if it came up in conversation. But in their mind, because of the
hundreds of emails and photo comments they get each day, they are famous. Not only
on myspace.com has this new craze, but I have been noticing it on Facebook.com and
of course Twitter.com. Many of the people doing the excessive adding are aspiring
models, actresses, musicians, and artists. The most famous and infamous MySpace
users use their MySpace fame to try and become famous in the real world.

Death is the inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to life. Someone long ago
said that upon birth, we’re committed to a life sentence. We never know when we’ll die,
or how, but we know it will happen. The gaping maw of the Grim Reaper stalks our
every waking moment and movement. Death can also be an instrument by which we
measure the value and worth of our lives. Have regrets and surely death will be
frightening. Live a good life and the question marks that engulf the other side no longer
seems dark.

Activity 2 (PPT 11/12 IIi-8.3) (PPT 11/12 IIi-8.4)

1. What is your personal definition of life? How do you appreciate life?

In life, we come across many challenges. Some of them make us who we are while some tell us
what we should be. Sometimes it is the opposite. There will be struggle, there will be bad days.
Days which would never seem to end. Days which would go on and on, which would keep hurting
us till the end. Many of us actually most would give up but the people who wont will be the ones to
face the brighter side of the day. The night is darkest before dawn but how can we forget the
rainbow after the rain? We understand to love, to give, to endure, to find pleasure, to please but
what we do not understand is ourselves during all of this. Life can lie to us and no one will stop it, it
can play all sorts of games with us without us even knowing because there is no one controlling it.
But whatever happens in life happens for good. Good of all in it. Whatever decisions life takes for
us is already planned by it and we must learn to accept it. We must come in terms with the fact that
no matter how hard we try to fit in this imperfect world, it will never acknowledge us for who we are.
We always feel like becoming everything else around us. But what we do not realize is that
everyone wants to be happy in the end of the day. They just want to find someone who will love
them and who will stand by them throughout. Throughout the stormy nights, throughout the lonely
days, throughout all the cold memories.

2. Is death absence of life? Why or why not?

Not necessarily.

Death is when something that used to be alive, is not alive anymore. E.g. a fish that is no longer
alive, is dead.

However, the absence of life also concerns things like stones, televisions, pillows. But since these
things were never alive in the first place, they’re not dead, since death requires life to exist first.

So the absence of life doesn’t mean something always is dead. It can also mean they just were
never alive, and thus they never really died.

Activity 1 (PPT 11/12 IIf-7.1)

1. The relationship of individuals and societies.

The relation between individual and society is very close. Essentially, “society” is the
regularities, customs and ground rules of antihuman behavior. These practices are tremendously
important to know how humans act and interact with each other. Society does not exist
independently without individual. The individual lives and acts within society but society is nothing,
in spite of the combination of individuals for cooperative effort. On the other hand, society exists to
serve individuals―not the other way around. Human life and society almost go together. Man is
biologically and psychologically equipped to live in groups, in society. Society has become an
essential condition for human life to arise and to continue. The relationship between individual and
society is ultimately one of the profound of all the problems of social philosophy. It is more
philosophical rather than sociological because it involves the question of values. Man depends on
society. It is in the society that an individual is surrounded and encompassed by culture, as a
societal force. It is in the society again that he has to conform to the norms, occupy statuses and
become members of groups. The question of the relationship between the individual and the
society is the starting point of many discussions. It is closely connected with the question of the
relationship of man and society. The re- lation between the two depends upon one fact that the
individual and the society are mutually de- pendent, one grows with the help of the other.

2. Human relations are transformed by social systems.

Social transformation affects all types of society in both developed and less-developed regions, in
the context of globalisation of economic and cultural relations, trends towards regionalisation, and
the emergence of various forms of global governance.The issue can no longer be defined in terms
of development, since it is no longer possible to draw clear lines between developed and
underdeveloped areas, nor to put forward a universally-accepted goal for processes of change.

The study of social transformation refers to the different ways in which globalising forces impact
upon local communities and national societies with highly diverse historical experiences, economic
and social patterns, political institutions and cultures.

Any analysis of social transformation therefore requires analysis both of macro-social forces and of
local traditions, experiences and identities.

The response to social transformation may not entail adaptation to globalisation but rather
resistance. This may involve mobilisation of traditional cultural and social resources, but can also
take new forms of 'globalisation from below' through trans-national civil society organisations."

Globalisation is changing society in a lot of ways, and distribution of power and authority are two
such examples of change. There is a belief held by some that globalisation is not benefitting
people in the way that it could, and that many people find themselves disadvantaged, while a very
small number of people become incredibly wealthy. This will not be beneficial for society in the
longer term.