Objectives: 1. Know the different kinds of social concepts 2. Develop their knowledge about social concepts 3.

Exercise their minds memorizing key words ABSTRACTION: Sovereignty is the equality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rest on the political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided. - Though their meanings have varied across history, also has a core meaning, supreme authority within a territory. It is a modern notion of political authority. - The state is the political institution in which sovereignty is provided. Example: Democratic country Authority is the legitimate or socially approved use of power. It is the legitimate power which one person or group holds over another is the main means by which authority is distinguished from or general concept to power. -Authority, by contrast, depends on the acceptance by subordinates of the right of those orders or directives. Example: Martial law Rights are legal, social or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement. Rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is aloud of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. -rights are essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics. -rights dominate modern understandings of what actions are permissible and which institutions are just. -rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived. To accept a set of rights is to approve a distribution of freedom and authority, and so to endorse a certain view of what may, must, and must not be done. Example: implementation of the republic act of the Philippines Equality signifies correspondence between a group of different objects, persons, processes or circumstances that have the same qualities in at least one respect, but not all respect. Examples: Egalitarianism- the belief that all/ some people ought to be treated equally. Equality before the law ( ampatuan massacre) Equal opportunity Equality of outcome or equality of condition Gender equality Racial equality Social equality

Justice/ social justice refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understand the value of human rights, and that recognize the dignity of every human being. -the fair and proper administration of law conforming to the national laws for all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion. Example : Hacienda Luisita- distribution of land ownership Liberty is a moral and political principle, or rights that identifies the condition of which human beings are able to govern themselves, to behave according to their own free will, and take responsibility for their actions. Examples: Freedom of rights as essential to liberty Freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control Freedom from external or foreign rule; independence Freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering condition, power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, according to choice. Law is a system or rules or guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator or relations between people. -is a system of rules a society sets to maintain order and protect harm to persons and property. -A recognized casual link or principle whose violation must or should result in a penalty as failure, injury, loss, or pain. Example (NBN-ZTE deal of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) -The binding rules of conduct meant to enforce justice and prescribe duty to obligation, and derived largely to a custom or formal enactment by a ruler or legislature. Nonviolence this can refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence because of moral and religious principle. It can also refer on the behaviour of people using nonviolent reaction. -nonviolence has active or activist elements, in that they accept the need for a means of struggle to achieve political and social change. Example: Student Rally for the Educational Budget Cut

Analysis: 1. What is the effect of law in the community? 2. What is the importance of social concepts in the community? 3. Does the law helps to make the status of different person even?

Application: I. Briefly define the following: 1. Authority 2. Sovereignty 3. Rights 4. Equality 5. Justice 6. Social Justice 7. Liberty 8. Law 9. Non Violence 10. Social concepts II. Discuss the following: 1. Value the equality 2. Natural Law and social contract 3. Social Justice generally refers to the idea of creating society/ institution III. Differentiate the following: 1. Economic Liberty vs. Personal Liberty 2. Politic Liberty vs. Civil Liberty 3. Equality vs. Priority Activity: Direction: Find the word in the word hunt. C I V I L I Z A T I O N Q F B T N E M N R E V O G S R C D A Q Z X B A Q W H O E S E S O C I E T Y B U C E O G L K J D S A W Z M I D V S T A T U S V W T A O O E H F S T R Q P O R N E M R G E N D E R D S A R C Z E B A K J K M G L E I O D I C S E D K J H G P G N X N A O L U V W Q Z A H O K T J C U L T U R A L T M L Y S I A M L A R Z X S Y M Q R A M N K S Q Y W B C N P V L N D J T B Q V D P R E L I G I O N L W U Q R W X Y Z A F O Y B A T S A S O L I D A R I T Y Q L P Z Y W V G Q J K P O W Q A T E R I T O R Y K Y T W Z

Freedom Social Civilization Society Cultural

Socio economy human rights religion solidarity status

gender sovereignty territory government