Herman I.

Ting
Socio 123 (Society Culture and Family Planning)
April 29, 2016

EXERCISE NUMBER 1- TOPIC: CONCEPT OF SOCIETY

FOLLOWING ARE ISUUES ABOUT PHILIPPNE SOCIETY. READ EACH STATEMENT AND DECIDE
WHETHER IT IS TRUE OR FALSE ( as much as possible make your explanations factual)
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Psychological disorders are more common among people in the lower class
Heart disease is far more likely to kill poor people than the affluent.
Most suicides are committed by people in their 30s and 40s.
Per pupil expenditures by American school systems significantly affect student scores on
achievement tests.
More women are graduating from professional schools today than ever before.
The vast majority of women today support sexual equality in the home.
Most elderly persons (65 above) depend on their children for at least some amount of financial
assistance.
Less than 1 percent of welfare recipients are able- bodied employable males. False
There are problems with the identification of the poor (which is the task of the LGUs), the current
means test being not efficient and fraud happening and LGUs not making enough efforts to register
the poor. The cards are also used politically by the LGUs within a patronage system: You vote for
me, I give you the card, whatever your level of income.
Assessment of the Philippine Social Protection Floor Policies
https://www.brot-fuer-diewelt.de/fileadmin/mediapool/2_Downloads/Fachinformationen/Analyse/analyse_32_englisch_social
_protection_in_the_philippines.pdf

9. Women have higher self- esteem than men. False

Studies utilizing a multidimensional approach to gender, however, tend to assume a different
relationship. In studies that define masculinity and femininity as two separate dimensions (rather
than polar opposites), self-esteem has been found to be more likely to be related to masculinity
than femininity (Antill & Cunningham, 28 1980; Marsh, Antill, & Cunningham, 1987), specifically in
terms of masculine traits, instead of masculine behaviors (Whitley, 1988).
Pagkababae at Pagkalalake (Femininity and Masculinity): Developing a Filipino Gender Trait
Inventory and predicting self-esteem and sexism Vivienne Velez Valledor-Lukey Syracuse
University
http://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=cfs_etd
10. The suicide rates are higher among women than men. False
The survey found that 7% of women and 4% of men had attempted suicide at some point in their lives.

But of the 5,981 deaths by suicide in the UK in 2012, more than three quarters (4,590) were males. In the
US, of the 38,000 people who took their own lives in 2010, 79% were men.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/suicide-gender-men-women-mental-health-nick-clegg
The figures in the Philippines are lower than the annual global age-standardized suicide rate of 11.4 per
100,000 populations (15.0 for males and 8.0 for females). The Philippines also has the lowest suicide rate
among ASEAN-member countries.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/524070/lifestyle/healthandwellness/special-report-suicide-and-thepinoy-youth#sthash.QTVxreSO.dpuf
11. Suicide rate in the Philippines are higher among upper class people than among lower class
people. False
More women than men attempt suicide in the Philippines, but as seen in most other countries case
fatality is higher in males, in part due to males' preference for more violent/lethal methods of
suicide. The male-to-female ratio for suicide (3.3:1) in the Philippines is higher than in China or
India but comparable to that seen Thailand, Japan and New Zealand [2]. The male: female ratio
increased almost two fold between the mid-1980s to 2005. There is no clear explanation for this
change, although it could be partly due to persisting poverty and income inequality, combined with
increasing labour market competitiveness during this period, despite reported economic growth
[29,30]. Other studies have shown that working age men may be more susceptible to suicide in
times of economic difficulty than women, possibly due to higher societal pressures to succeed
[31].http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146433/
12. Most married women work. True
We find that small decreases in the gender wage gap can simultaneously explain the significant
increases in the average hours worked by married women and the relative constancy in the hours
worked by single women and by single and married men.
Why Are Married Women Working So Much? Larry E. Jones University of Minnesota and Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr317.pdf
13. Three out of four legally separated women remarry within three years. False
Half of the men and women who remarried after divorcing
from their first marriage did so in about 3 years.
http://proactivechange.com/relationships/statistics.htm
14. It is more difficult for men to remarry than it is for women. True
According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2001, approximately 3 percent of the men capable of
marriage are widowed compared to 12 percent of the women. These proportions increase
dramatically, however, among those sixty-five years of age and older (14% men versus 45%
women) and even more so among those aged eighty-five and older where 43 percent of the men
are widowers (compared to 80% of the women).
Read more: http://www.deathreference.com/Vi-Z/Widowers.html#ixzz4714wKYX5

15. In dating, absence makes the heart more fonder. True

"In some ways, long-distance relationships are a bit easier, at least for desire, perceived
satisfaction, and not having to deal with day-to-day life," explains Kristen P. Mark, director of
the Sexual Health Promotion Lab at the University of Kentucky. "Sure, you miss your partner and
ache to see them again, but that ache is exactly what fuels the desire and passion in the
relationship. Missing out on the mundane allows for your relationship to flourish on the ups of life
without having to worry about paying the bills, what to cook for dinner or getting the kids up and out
the door in the morning."
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/17/living/relationships-long-distance-benefits/
16. Death penalty decreases crime rates. False
Globally, according to Gabon as of February 14 2011, 58 countries (29%) still implementing death penalty in law
and practice while 98 (50%) have abolished it. And 8 (4%) retain it for crimes committed in exceptional
circumstances (such as in time of war), 33 (17%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at
least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is
under a moratorium.

https://kimkarla.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/re-imposing-of-death-penalty-in-the-philippinesapprove-or-disapprove/
17. Crimes of violence and theft are far more likely to occur among teen agers than among any other
group in our society. True
Adolphe Quetelet (1831/1984)found that the proportion of the population involved in crime tends to
peak in adolescence or early adulthood and then decline with age. In contemporary times, the
FBIs Uniform Crime Report(UCR) arrest data (19351997), particularly the Crime Index (homicide,
robbery, rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft), document the consistency of
the age effect on crime.
http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/60294_Chapter_23.pdf
18. The Philippines has one of the lowest rates of infant mortality in the world. False
Philippines is not included listed in world mortality report 2013 by the United Nations.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/mortality/WMR2013/World_Mor
tality_2013_Report.pdf
19. Almost half of the people currently jail in this country have not been convicted of a crime. True
As of 2009, 54670 detainees and 2, 949 were sentenced.
http://nap.psa.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/2011/091211.asp#tab1
20. Suicide is more prevalent in the rich than in the poor. True

While people commit suicide for various reasons, a poor man is more likely to
kill himself for the same reason than a rich man.
The latest data from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2014 shows a
direct relationship between poverty and suicide. While the exhaustive data
segregates suicides according to various causes, the common thread running
through a majority of suicides is poverty.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Poor-more-likely-to-commit-suicidethan-rich-data-reveals/articleshow/48229845.cms

21. Rape is usually an impulsive uncontrollable act of social gratification. False.

Rape is a premeditated act of violence, not a spontaneous act of passion.

71% of rapes are planned in advance. 60% of convicted rapists were married
or had regular sexual partners at the time of the assault. Men can control
their sexual impulses. The vast majority of rapists are motivated by power,
anger, and control, not sexual gratification.

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/myths.html
22. In dating and mate selection opposites attract. False
The similarity-attraction theory argues that people are attracted to others that are similar, rather than
opposite. Perception of similarity can also be found in romantic relationships and to a greater degree than
in friendships. Individuals want a partner with a similar personalty (Barelds and Dijkstra, 2008). It was
found that couples perceive more similarities the longer the relationship goes on (Sprecher, 2013). The
table below shows how the perception increases from the beginning stage to the current stage of the
relationship at the time of this study by Sprecher. The two in the relationship are essentially becoming a
mimic of one another (Karrenmans and Verwijmeren 2008).

https://sites.google.com/a/haverford.edu/the-psychology-of/workshops/opposites-attract
23. Women are more likely than men to abuse children. True
Study: 91% of mothers abuse children, fathers 7%
Paul Elam (2013)
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-lies-feminism/study-91-of-mothers-abuse-childrenfathers-7/
24. Marital happiness is likely to increase following the birth of children. False

Compared to pre-birth levels and trajectories, parents showed sudden

deterioration following birth on observed and self-reported measures of
positive and negative aspects of relationship functioning.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702669/
25. By age 45, more than one third of all males in this country have been engaged in at least one
homosexual act. False
26. Marrying and having children are the most natural things to do. True
27. Filipino families were happier in the past. True
The Philippines is the 82nd happiest place out of 157 economies, according to
a report released yesterday by the Sustainable Development Solutions
Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/03/17/1563788/worlds-happiest-philippines-ranks-82nd