1. The document discusses several social problems associated with underdevelopment including high population growth, lack of access to education perpetuating poverty, low income and large families leading to social instability, lack of infrastructure hindering economic growth, and environmental scarcity from overuse of natural resources.
2. It describes how these problems manifest in the present situation in the Philippines including persistent poverty, inequality, ecological degradation from population pressure, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated issues for low-income populations.
3. Development communication views human beings as the true measure of development, focusing on meaningfully improving lives and empowering people rather than just economic indicators. It seeks to fully lift people
1. The document discusses several social problems associated with underdevelopment including high population growth, lack of access to education perpetuating poverty, low income and large families leading to social instability, lack of infrastructure hindering economic growth, and environmental scarcity from overuse of natural resources.
2. It describes how these problems manifest in the present situation in the Philippines including persistent poverty, inequality, ecological degradation from population pressure, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated issues for low-income populations.
3. Development communication views human beings as the true measure of development, focusing on meaningfully improving lives and empowering people rather than just economic indicators. It seeks to fully lift people
1. The document discusses several social problems associated with underdevelopment including high population growth, lack of access to education perpetuating poverty, low income and large families leading to social instability, lack of infrastructure hindering economic growth, and environmental scarcity from overuse of natural resources.
2. It describes how these problems manifest in the present situation in the Philippines including persistent poverty, inequality, ecological degradation from population pressure, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated issues for low-income populations.
3. Development communication views human beings as the true measure of development, focusing on meaningfully improving lives and empowering people rather than just economic indicators. It seeks to fully lift people
1. The document discusses several social problems associated with underdevelopment including high population growth, lack of access to education perpetuating poverty, low income and large families leading to social instability, lack of infrastructure hindering economic growth, and environmental scarcity from overuse of natural resources.
2. It describes how these problems manifest in the present situation in the Philippines including persistent poverty, inequality, ecological degradation from population pressure, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated issues for low-income populations.
3. Development communication views human beings as the true measure of development, focusing on meaningfully improving lives and empowering people rather than just economic indicators. It seeks to fully lift people
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Ella Mae F.
Villena ABMC 3A
COMM 14 – DEVCOMM 09/14/2020
QUIZ NO. 1
I. SOCIETAL PROBLEMS
1. Enumerate the social problems associated with underdevelopment.
There are deep institutional, economic and political structures that prevent countries from overlapping their current situation specially countries that are considered as underdeveloped. Underdevelopment kind of reinforces itself, Thus, everyone can agree that this is a vicious circle that’s very hard to escape from. It is associated with several social problems caused by this phenomenon.
a. The most evident among all social problems existing on underdevelopment is
population growth. Theoretical analyses argue that high population growth creates pressures on limited natural resources, reduces private and public capital formation, and diverts additions to capital resources to maintaining rather than increasing the stock of capital per worker.
b. for most children born in poverty the chance of success in education is lower, therefore results a higher probability of failure of education. Following this failure, their chances of success as an adult are limited, which can make us think of social exclusion. Besides the fact that poor families cannot cope with these financial limitations, there are also economic realities. Children have to quit school in order to earn money where "welfare" would depend on the family. Moreover, dropout because of poverty leads to the perpetuation of child poverty and the potential to achieve incomes decreases. Later all these will turn into lack of responsiveness to change and low capacity to improve quality of life. In conclusion, lack of education perpetuates poverty and poverty limited access to education.
c. The deadly combination of low income coupled with large families makes for social instability and poor human development. This has had a cascading effect on the employment and the social welfare programs of the government. The effects of underemployment are like those of unemployment. Both cause higher poverty levels. Without adequate income, families don't buy as much. That reduces consumer demand, slowing business growth. As a result, the nation's gross domestic product is lower, as is job growth. It's a vicious, downward spiral.
d. Among the many ills that the less developed countries face, Infrastructure or the lack of it is one of the most prominent factors for poor economic growth. It is a vicious cycle as massive investments are needed to develop the infrastructure and poor countries cannot afford the same.
e. Environmental scarcity refers to the declining availability of renewable natural
resources such as freshwater or soil. Population growth or increasing consumption levels decrease the amount of limited natural resources available to each individual. Unequal access to natural resources in a given society makes them scarce for large segments of the population.
2. Describe these problem conditions in our present situation.
In our present situation, poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a
challenge. In the past 4 decades, the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly. The Philippines is one of many countries in which ecological marginalization has occurred. High rates of population growth have made cropland relatively scarce in the fertile lowlands, forcing many farmers to move into the less productive uplands. This migration was also encouraged by the fact that the land ownership in the lowlands was concentrated in the hands of a few elite landholders. As the lowland-to-upland migration proceeded, rising cultivation in the ecologically fragile uplands has led to erosion and ecological degradation, further shrinking the supply of available cropland.
These various forms of environmental scarcity can lead to several potentially
destabilizing social effects, specifically lower agricultural production, economic stagnation or decline, migrations from areas of resource scarcity to areas of perceived opportunity, weakened governing institutions.
Also, in this times of pandemic, COVID-19 only made the situation much deprived for everyone specially in the Philippines. Preventing transmission of the COVID-19 disease requires that we consistently exercise proper health and hygiene protocols, both in our homes and in public spaces. Authorities have also advised that we all steer clear of large gatherings, avoid using public transportation, follow “community quarantine” measures, and seek prompt medical attention when there is exposure to the disease. While all these are sound reminders, there is one glaring problem – the poor will not be able to afford to follow these.
Many jobs have no paid sick leaves. Irregular workers, including those who are paid on a per output, takay, or pakyaw basis, are particularly vulnerable. Working from home is not an option for all workers, as in the case of jeepney drivers and service workers. Crowding cannot be avoided in mass transport systems. In crisis situations, poor women and girls are affected the most because many of them form part of this workforce, but are still expected to do unpaid care and domestic work, which only tends to increase when caring for sick members of the family.
3. Reflect and establish trends/ examples when appropriate.
II. UNDERDEVELOPMENT PROBLEMATIQUE
4. Describe the “vicious cycle of poverty” and how do you think it will be lessened if not solved?
The “vicious cycle of poverty” refers to a state wherein it is impossible for a
household (a family) to break out of poverty without external intervention. Poverty is considered as a vicious cycle because it forces individuals into patterns of short term thinking and utilizing all your resources for satiating needs and to a lesser extent desires immediately preventing longer term planning and accumulation of greater resources. Basically, the wages of labor are below break out or take off away from Poverty. By work it is possible to get out of abject poverty on a monthly basis, but this is not enough to prevent falling back into poverty due to natural factors. The cycle can also be viewed as a Sociological phenomenon. That is when the drive and work or even crime that leads to higher incomes however have a downside or lack of change of socio patterns of living so that the rise takes the family to where it falls back even more viciously as they may have to sell all belongings to survive into the next lap.
To break a pattern, it should be aided on its roots. If not solved, the vicious cycle of poverty can be lessen even in small changes of practices in the mind of the poor, since this is where it all started. Begin by stop sending messages to the poor that they are oppressed, and that the government will always save them. No one can expect much out of people who are being brainwashed to believe that they are incapable of achieving anything on their own and must depend on the government. Having a career versus just having a job can also be life changing. Most jobs want a warm body to perform labor. A career is different because your marketing your skill and not the labor. The best kind of career is a progressive one which presents opportunities for advancement, upward mobility, promotion, and more money. Such jobs are usually in the corporate business sector.
5. Describe the “Problematique technique”. How is it the same and at the
same time different from the “vicious cycle of poverty” III. DEVELOPMENT DEFINED 6. How is it that based from Dev Comm’s perspective, that MAN is the true measure of development. Elaborate. Development Communication or ‘Dev Comm’ is a form of communication that stimulates development in society by encouraging local inhabitants to pursue different development projects. Practitioner of this field usually act like catalysts. It's about empowering people and utilizing communication and media as a tool to inform and educate the masses about technology, government agriculture, basic rights and a lot more. Thus, Dev Comm’s belief in hope for the nation starts with the man itself. Development communication is about starting a movement that will lead to sustained development for all the people especially the marginalized. Before, development is used to be measured by gross domestic product, national domestic product and infrastructure. However, in the present times development is now measured by the improvement of the lives of people especially those living in poverty. Development communication is considered as an in-depth take on service more than giving people momentary relief from poverty. Dev Comm literally seeks to fully carry the poor away from the dire situation. Indeed, in DevComm’s perspective, a nation shall never be considered as developing nor developed unless the marginalized has already overcome the vicious cycle of poverty.
