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POLITICAL MEMES
Learning Outcomes

• At the end of the topic, the students will be able

to:
• 1. identify factors that shape the political self
• 2. describe the role and/or interaction of the
different elements in the formation of a political
self
• 3. create self-portraits made up of objects,
symbols and/or imagery that represent key
elements of their political identity
Levels of Analysis:

•Individual
•Institutional
•Community
1st level: INDIVIDUAL
Individual Factors

• Attitudes and values

• Presence of dualism
• Highlights the contradiction between self-
interest and the good of the community
• Positive and negative reinforcers
• Attitudes change
• Due to events that sweep the nation
• Due to involvement in service-oriented activities
2nd level: INSTITUTIONAL
Institutional Factors

• Family
• School
• Church
• Media
• Government
• Non-government and people’s
organizations
Institutional Factors

• FAMILY
• children are taught the basic human
values of honesty, love, discipline and
respect for others but notions of
community are confined to
the family and the concept of
public good tends to be left
out of family values
Institutional Factors

• FAMILY
• Authoritarian practices may
impede independent thought
• Primordial nature of kinship
affiliation in the Philippines hampers
the development of a sense of
community and the public good
Institutional Factors

• SCHOOL
• Have the role to teach
nationhood and its associated
values
Institutional Factors

• CHURCH
• Periodically issues pastoral
letters which deal with social
realities as discerned in the
context of the gospel
Institutional Factors

• MEDIA
• positive and negative portrayals
of citizenship
• Provides venues for the
discussion of issues and
exposing anomalies in the
conduct of public affairs
Institutional Factors

• GOVERNMENT
• Prescribes official programs
such as the curriculum in state-
run elementary and high schools
• Provides frameworks and the
environment for the exercise of
rights and the fulfillment of
social obligations
Institutional Factors

• NON-GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE’S

ORGANIZATIONS
• Utilize non-formal venues of
expression and decision-making
that influence policy makers in both
the government and the private
sector
• Engage in value-formation in
their leadership training, seminars
on gender sensitivity and others
3rd level: COMMUNITY
Community Factors

• The degree (or lack) of

identification with the nation
depends, among others, on the
type of community to which
one belongs and the extent to
which it is served by, or
benefits from, instruments of
the state
Community Factors

• Religion (“Filipino” connotes

“Christian”)
• Language (i.e., use of English) as
the privileged medium of official
and private transactions
• Absence or presence of social
requisites for the exercise of
citizenship and democracy
Homework
• PART 1:
• Create a self-portrait made up of objects, symbols
and/or imagery that represent key elements of
your political identity.
• You can create these self-portraits using whatever
medium you choose (i.e, graphic software on the
computer, magazine cut-outs, drawing, 3-D
sculpture, modeling clay, etc)
• PART 2:
• In your journal write a reflection paper of what
you learned about yourself in the process of doing
part 1.