The Youth's Role in

Nation-building
Man, Family,

Community
The Composition of Man
• Spiritual sphere – soul and
spirit
• Sphere of the mind – endowed
with reasoning ability
• Body organization – a physical
being with human needs
 What is man?
• A physical being
• A reflection of the universe
• Moral being – the ability to
distinguish what is right
and what is wrong
 What is man?
• Man is an occupant of the
earth and its director.
• Intellectual capability – has
the power to reason
“reasoning soul”
• An element of society
 Man and society
• Man complicates a situation
when his nature and
society collides
• Man has a role to play in the
society
• There is an interplay between
the individual and society
Family as an
element of
society
 Family
• Represented the primary cell
of social life
• Basic element of society
wherein some attributes of
human nature is developed
Family as a training
ground of society
 Autonomy
• To feel and experience the
individualization process

Liberty
• Must have a freedom to choose
for himself who he wishes to
be
 Responsibility
• Must be given a responsibility
at home to prepare them for
a bigger responsibility

Tolerance
• Must be taught how to accept
individual differences
 Trust
• Must be developed within the
family so that members will
learn to trust other people

Community
• Group of people who interact
and share certain things as
a group
Examples of community

• Family
• Kinship
 The essence of
community
• The development of
personal and cultural values
• A world view and attitude
towards a larger society
 The essence of
community
• Develop emotional bonds
• Intellectual pathways
• Enhanced linguistic abilities
• Higher capacity for critical
thinking
 Mcmillan and Chavis
identify four elements of
“sense of community”

• Membership
• Influence
• Integration and fulfillment of
needs
• Shared emotional
connection
The development of
sense of
community
• In times of glory
• In times of crisis, chaos or
defeat
Types of community
• Location
• Identity
• Overlaps
 Location
• Municipality
• Neighborhood
• Planned community
 Identity
• Professional community
• Virtual community

Overlaps
• Retirement community
• Intentional community
Filipino Values and
Traits
 “We are a nation bereft of
moorings and have a moral crisis,
a crisis of lost or squandered
spiritual values”

Teodoro Benigno
 What is culture?
• Culture is a way of life
• It has a powerful effect on a
person’s daily life
• It shapes us but we also shape
culture
Characteristics of culture
• Culture is learned
• Culture is transmitted
• Culture is shared
• Culture is patterned and
integrated
• Culture is adaptive and
maladaptive
The elements of culture
• Beliefs
• Values
• Norms
• Mores
• Laws
 What are values?
• Values are abstract and
shared ideas about what is
desirable, good, and correct
 The basis of Philippine
value orientation
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• Malayan Hindu
• Chinese Spanish
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