Recall - Letters

Recall of letter addressed to parents ("Divisoria challenge"). Please return these letters for proper signatures this coming Wednesday. For SO 101 students only. Salamat po.

Divisoria Challenge, Bulletin 01

The main concept of Divisoria Challenge (DC)is to test out your skill on how to live in a group. The activity: 1. You will be grouped into a 5-member team. 2. Each one shall contribute P100 to the group and you will plan on how you can maximize your purchase for your own use or for your plan to re-sell them. The post activity of the DC will be scheduled in our class day. Appoint your group reporter. You are encouraged to document your experience. 3. This plan will see fruition this coming 26 February, Sunday. We are going to Divisoria. Groups will be assigned to the following: 168Mall, and Tutuban Center. 4. Thus, you can organize your group and plan out your strategy when you reach these shopping area.

Final Exam

Final Exam, SO 101, Film Analysis 1. This is your final semester exam. The weight of this work is 100 points. 2. You are to group yourselves into 3 person per group. You can do an individual work or in tandem. 3. You are to select a film of your choice (to be approved by your teacher) in which you are going to analyze the film and using sociological terms that you have understood in our discussion. 4. A minimum of 25 sociological terms and maximum of 50 will be used in your film analysis. 5. Parts of your work: A - Title Page which contains the groups member's names, section and schedule. B - One page summary of the film. C - Film Analysis an essay tackling the film's theme, the problem or conflict involved or how was it resolved. D - Individual reflection of the members on how it is working with your group mates. E - Trivia of the film. F - Expenses in coming out with the production of the film analysis. 6. You can select any English or Tagalog film available at the market. The CD will be submitted with the film analysis and will not be returned. Thus purchase a CD that is affordable. 7. Deadline of the film analysis will be TTh -... , WF ... will be announced. 8. Ask for the model of the film analysis from your teacher. It is available for you to view.

Final Exam

1. This is your final semester exam. The weight of this work is 50 points.
2. You are to group yourselves into 3 person per group. You can do an individual work or in tandem.
3. You are to select a film of your choice (to be approved by your teacher) in which you are going to analyze the film and using sociological terms that you have understood in our discussion.
4. A minimum of 25 sociological terms and maximum of 50 will be used in your film analysis.
5. Parts of your work: A - Title Page which contains the groups member's names, section and schedule. B - One page summary of the film. C - Film Analysis an essay tackling the film's theme, the problem or conflict involved or how was it resolved. D - Individual reflection of the members on how it is working with group mates. E - Trivia of the film. F - Expenses in coming out with the production of the film analysis.
6. You can select any English or Tagalog film available at the market. The CD will be submitted with the film analysis and will not be returned. Thus purchase a CD that is affordable.
7. Deadline of the film analysis will be TTh -... , WF ...
8. Ask for the model of the film analysis from your teacher. It is available for you to view.

Celebrating Maryknoll's 100 years presence

 

Prelims - Essay Second Semester

This will be part of your prelims that receives 50 points. Instructions: 1. Select one topic that you think you can relate on this blogspot. Reflect on that article and write an essay on how does it affect you. 2. It should be double space with a maximum of 3 pages. 3. Deadline is a 7 days after the written prelim exam. (Written prelims= 50 pts. plus essay = 50 points. Queries at: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com

The Hermit Kingdom

North Korea is one of the most secretive country in the planet. It is organized in emperor worship and blood lineage leadership. Watch this document and observe their life comparing to your own. Click on the colored link. Assignment: 1. Retain your latest grouping (Video Festival) and submit a paper pointing our the difference between your life in the Philippines and life in North Korea. Two pages only. Deadline January 10 and 11 on class days.

Birth of universe, part 2

">Birth of Universe

Birth of the universe

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SO 101, Please view the post Birth of the Universe

Birth of the universe is a four-part series on explaining how the universe came to be. Just go to the post below this.

Birth of the Universe 1-4

National Geographic presents a four-part series on the birth of the universe. http://youtu.be/phV-Zpy1BeM

Plus points for SO 101

You are given 5-extra points but you have to work for it. How? you can submit trivia paper which get a point. Trivia papers will not be returned. Just ask for the points that you got and record it. Five points is the only limit.

MC GotTalent, Orientation

MC GOT TALENT is a showcase of talents by individuals or groups. They can render songs, dance, poetry reading, showing of their self-produced video, poetry reading, published short stories, art works.

Each section is assigned an organizing committee. If you have talent to share contact the assigned committee.

MC Got Talent Schedule, SO 101, NSTP

TTh 7:30 am - 13 March
TTh 9:00 am - 06 March
WF 7:30 am - 29 Feb
WF 9:00 am - 2 March
NSTP 12:00 - 22 February

WF 7:30 AM Grouping Video Festival

03 February 2012 Groups 1-5

Group 1, Takai, DeRamos,Delovino, Umali
Group 2, Johnson, Luces, Trinida, Barraza
Group 3, Cheng, Inoferio, Paitan, Torio
Group 4, Pahate, Samonte, Sadi, Virtudazo
Group 5, acosta, Zarragoza, Kasingsing, Barnachea

08 February Groups 6-9

Group 6, Aquino, Chua, Devera, Mangulabnan
Group 7, Tan, Pandela, Quinagoran, Go
Group 8, Calderon, Rivera, Basa, Sosa
Group 9, Alunan, Perdido, Beltran

WF 9:00 am Video Festival SO 101

Schedule for 03 February, 2012 Groups 1-4

Group 1, Acerden, Asuncion,Camello, Cruz Denize
Group 2, Puyo, Minji, Sijin Kim
Group 3, Datu, Aman, Delacruz Allana, Del Rosario
Group 4, Cueva, Arugay, Devela, Cirineo

07 March 2012 Groups 5-8

Group 5, Amper, Apacible, Berro, Chua
Group 6, Delluza, Carpio, Dejesus, Justalero
Group 7, Park E, Advincula, Batangantang,Sobue
Group 8, Nipa, Argus, Abat, Relova

Understanding Janet Mock, on Transgender

Understanding Janet Mock, on Transgender.

On Mass behavior in Wukan, China

SO 101 & NSTP students read on this mass behavior phenomenon.

The conflict in Wukan, a coastal settlement near the country’s booming industrial heartland in Guangdong Province, escalated on Monday after residents learned that one of the representatives they had selected to negotiate with the local Communist Party had died in police custody. The authorities say a heart attack killed the 42-year-old man, but relatives say his body bore signs of torture.

Assignment 2011 - So 101 January 2012

1. Retain your grouping from the Video Clip Festival.
2. You are to submit at least 15 newspaper clippings on the "Impeachment of Corona"
3. Answer this question/s, a. Do you think the government has a case against Corona? If yes, why? If no why not. b. Will it produce the so-called "Constitutional Crisis?" If yes, how? If no, why not? Develop your essay response to this. Double space. Same format.
4. Deadline, 10 and 11 January 2012.

TTh 7:30 am Video Film clip festival

Groups 1 - 4, 01 March

Group 1 Hernandez, Diaz, DelaFuente, Briones
Group 2 Garcia, Elomina, Bowe, Felizardo
Group 3 Domingo, Cruz K, Dospueblos, Carlos
Group 4 Balmaceda, Centeno, Menciano, Tapiador

Groups 5 - 7 06 March

Group 5 - Gonzales, Bautista, Fallaria, Alfonso
Group 6 - Castillo, Chavez, DeJesus, Cruz
Group 7 - Deleon, Gregorio, Espenida, Alejo, DelosReyes

Group TTH 9:00 am SO 101 Video Film Festival

First Batch Video Film Clip Festival Date 23 Feb
Group 1, Gonzalo, Perez, Gandionco, Adap
Group 2, Bunyi, Calaquian, Dumaguing, Edades
Group 3, Alegre, Escalante, Kabigting
Group 4, Inguilla, Inocentes, Jardin, Santana
Group 5, Gumaru,Homillada, Javier, Moscare

Second Batch Video Film Clip Festival Date 08 March

Group 6 - Relova, Mistica, River, Salapantan
Group 7 - Dacudao, Gapasin, Manuel, Sanchez
Group 8 - Casumpang, Dayao, Bandiola, Lu, DeGuzman
Group 9 - David, Gungon, Aman, Zalamea

Announcement: On Lamangan & Bonifacio article

If you can't access the data do not do the assignment. Naturally. I will get another accessible one. Thanks.

Video Film Clip Festival SO 101

Video Film clip Festival SO 101
1. Organize a group with 4 members.
2. Your objective:
a. Select a video clip from YouTube having the following topic or subject: Philippine values, Cooperation, Conflict, Funny-human incident local or foreign, weird cultural practice, weird or exotic food, religious groups or religious practice, the elderly, new knowledge, the internet, and helping in times of need.
b. A video clip should not exceed 3-minutes. A total of 5-video clips will be presented which include a closing song that the group will agree on.
3. Your schedule:
WF 9:00 am 03Feb and 07 March
WF 7:30 am 03Feb and 07 March
TTh 9:00 am 23 Feb and 08 March
TTh 7:30 am 01 March and 06 March
4. Your group will be given a number to know your schedule of reporting.
5. Inquiries shall be sent to: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com

Empire of Illusion and Pyschosis

By Chris Hedges

Our culture of flagrant self-exaltation, hardwired in the American character, permits the humiliation of all those who oppose us. We believe, after all, that because we have the capacity to wage war we have a right to wage war. Those who lose deserve to be erased. Those who fail, those who are deemed ugly, ignorant or poor, should be belittled and mocked. Human beings are used and discarded like Styrofoam boxes that held junk food. And the numbers of superfluous human beings are swelling the unemployment offices, the prisons and the soup kitchens.

Click colored link above.

Announcement : Reporting teams SO 101

Please submit your report via email at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com
Also add the links of your video presentation.
Thanks.

The last Bo.

The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world's earliest languages to the grave.
Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1248754/Last-member-65-000-year-old-tribe-dies-taking-worlds-earliest-languages-grave.html#ixzz1fjj6qUab

Reminders to Reporters

Reporters should rehearse their delivery. Members should be responsible to review the text to be project. They should be early in the class to fix the technicals. They should have the lap-top, LCD project, a audio machine for your audio-visual material.

Reports should be sent to leonidas.jose@yahoo.com you can also add the link/s.

SO 101: Announcement

SO 101 students of SY2011-2011 are required to view French Revolution part 1, Discovery channel, You Tube.

The 7th billion baby was born at your village

The 7th billion baby was born at your village. Now what will that baby expect from you environment?

Opinion on Ramgen Revilla's murder

For SO 101 and NSTP student's material. Please read the article for discussion.

Per our Supreme Court, “Flight means the act of evading the course of justice by voluntarily withdrawing oneself to avoid arrest or detention or the institution or continuance of criminal proceedings. The unexplained flight of the accused may, as a general rule, be taken as evidence tending to establish guilt.” (People v. Ayupan, Feb. 13, 2002)

Please click on red link above.

Power point presentation, Chapter report SO 101

As I have given instruction on the chapter reporting you can use power point presentation. You can add a video/s presentation within the power point.

Then present a song that you think that can go with your report.

Lastly, you can share to the class a video of interest that you found which is around 2-3 minutes.

Announcement: Review this video for power point presentation

Power point presentation. Must see.

Chapter reports have 100% weight points.

Announcement: SO 101

Students are required to view the two videos posted below this window. Big Bang Theory and Human Evolution videos will be our material for discussion.

Big Bang Theory, Human Evolution

Big Bang Theory


Human Evolution, Animated.

Human Evolution - Animated

Watch and study how we evolved from simple organism to complex celled organism.

Out of classroom activity SO 101

Instructions: (This out of classroom activity will be on the 17th and 18th November).

1. You are to retain the same group that you have formulated when I gave you your first written assignment.

2. Your group shall be able to submit a paper (1-2 pages, same agreed format) on:
a) Observations of patterns of behavior in a school (eg. observation at Miriam College).
b) Discussion of the group on observations of patterns of behavior in a family.

You have the option to work on an individual basis.

3. As scheduled this will be submitted this coming 24th and 25th November respectively.

4. Should you have any querry, please email me at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com

Welcome Freshmen, Second Semester 2011-12

Hellow!

Welcome to a new world and space of learning. Now, via this blogspot or we may call it the cyberspace I hope I can provide you with the reading and viewing materials for the Introductory course on Sociology.

Messages will be posted here, so you have to visit this site for the duration of the semester.

I am inviting you to watch the video on the 21st Century enlightenment just below this post.

If you think there are interesting articles you like to read please do so.

Earn making your own video

Earn from your video upload, if it goes viral, at YouTube.

9 Ways Christianity battles Science

Science and Religion… here are two things that do not go together like birds of a feather, or peas in a pod, or pork chops in applesauce. But the two have to live together one way or another seeing as the world is technologically and scientifically developing at nearly the speed of light while the Light of Christ still illuminates the Bible Belt and beyond with the same intensity as ever. The two world views are bound to clash on most of the issues, but perhaps there is some common ground somewhere. Or maybe not. Here are some of the ways Christians try to resist the proven facts of science.

News from Sorsogon State College

SORSOGON CITY—Wanting in laboratory facilities but blessed with dedicated teachers, a little-known state college here has proven it can equal the finest engineering schools in the country. Its recent graduates have topped successive engineering board exams.
Sorsogon State College (SSC), some 500 kilometers south of Manila, has produced the likes of Joseph Cyril R. Gredoña and Daniel E. Forteza, who ranked first and second, respectively, in the mechanical engineering board exams last month.
Gredoña—a son of a tricycle driver—garnered a grade of 92.70 percent, while Forteza—a son of a farmer/fisherman—got 92.65 percent in the exams.

21st - Enlightenment, a review of the future.

Reviewing he 21st first Enlightenment. The future is upon us. The future is not of some distant moment but present in the present time that stir our life.

Click on the colored link.

Žižek at Wall Street: “don’t fall in love with yourself”

Žižek at Wall Street: “don’t fall in love with yourself”

We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know the classic scene from cartoons. The cat reaches a precipice but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath this ground. Only when it looks down and notices it, it falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street, “Hey, look down!”

Click on colored link.

Occupy Wall Street! October 2011

Click on colored link below:

Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!
Thursday 6 October 2011
by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed

Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement, the United Federation of Teachers and members of other unions at Foley Square in New York, on October 5, 2011. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)
We're young; we're poor; we're not going to take it anymore. -Occupy Wall Street chant

As thousands of young people are marching against corporate power and rallying in protest against the symbols of Wall Street greed across the United States, the political and economic elites respond by engaging in a form of class warfare and clinging to the celebration of the shark-like culture of casino capitalism, revealing all too clearly their own criminal behavior and how it represents a major threat to American democracy.

Slavery in modern India

Slavery in modern India.

Evolution, Richard Dawkins, Genes

Progressive Evolution?

Professor Dawkins’s great intellectual conviction is that evolution is progressive, and tends to lead to more and more complexity. Species, in his view, often arrive at similar solutions to evolutionary puzzles — the need for ears, eyes, arms or an octopus’s tentacle. And, often although not invariably, bigger brains. So the saber-toothed tiger shows up as a cat in Europe and Asia, and as a marsupial in South America. Different species seized on the same carnivorous solution. (He most certainly does not, however, view evolution as progressing toward us, that is humans — were we to disappear, some other species most likely would fill our evolutionary niche.)

Governance

The new hires, who worked as project head coordinators, executive officers, technical writers, project evaluators, field inspectors, client assistance officers, field coordinators, office aides and area coordinators, were paid from P5,000 to P18,500 each. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/54813/coa-probes-3000-qc-%E2%80%98ghost%E2%80%99-workers

Francis Fukuyama, Origins of Political Order

Dr. Fukuyama, a political scientist, is concerned mostly with the cultural, not biological, aspects of human society. But he explicitly assumes that human social nature is universal and is built around certain evolved behaviors like favoring relatives, reciprocal altruism, creating and following rules, and a propensity for warfare. Because of this shared human nature, with its biological foundation, “human politics is subject to certain recurring patterns of behavior across time and across cultures,” he writes. It is these worldwide patterns he seeks to describe in an analysis that stretches from prehistoric times to the French Revolution. http://nyti.ms/pgU3ZM

True to Your Heart - Mulan - YouTube

True to Your Heart - Mulan - YouTube

Public speaking

At school students are not just taught to understand concepts. They are also taught how to face and talk to crowds. If you are motivated to take this skill then it is best that you start early.
Look at how Steve Jobs speak to crowds. He knows. Full of confidence. Search also for other speakers with their famous lines. There is this AL Pacino movie, At any given Sunday. He gave an inspirational talk. You can also look at his piece on Scent of a Woman.

Sax - Michael Jackson - You are not alone

You are not alone.

Effective Power Point Presentation

Effective power point presentation. Please google or search at You Tube, Effective Power Point Presentation.

Forgetfulness a cult.

Moving on: the cult of forgetfulness

By: Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:01 am | Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Memory is so burdensome to many of us that moving on and not looking back has become a kind of value in itself. The argument is that responding to present challenges is demanding enough, we should not compound it by dredging the past. This attitude, so prevalent in our culture, typically rides on the religious notion of forgiveness as forgetting and freeing oneself of a grudge. I argue that while a sense of forgiveness may lead us to disregard a wrong, forgiving does not mean forgetting.

There are two reasons why we should remember, and they are particularly relevant to our context. The first is quite obvious: many of our present problems are practically the same ones we encountered in the past. They recur because we have not taken them seriously enough – meaning, we do not use them as occasions to affirm our basic values, laws, and standards. We are content to catch the small fry hired by the real culprits. Because of the latter’s power, we stop short of calling them to account, or of punishing them. We seldom take the trouble of determining the nature of these problems so as to prevent their recurrence.

The second reason for remembering is that where there is no recognition of wrongdoing, or where there is no remorse and atonement, there is no duty to forgive. The offense is bound to be repeated, if not by the same person, by others who are emboldened by the community’s lack of will to enforce its laws. But, more than this, when a wrongdoing is unacknowledged and altogether blotted out, and the wrongdoer survives in memory without stigma, cynicism displaces idealism. The community loses its capacity to judge and to distribute social esteem. Before long, the unpunished wrongdoer may even come back to claim esteem. In our forgetfulness, we then wonder why, in the first place, it was denied him.

In his book “The ethics of memory,” the philosopher Avishai Margalit wrote of forgiveness in these terms: “The central metaphor is not erasure but, rather, returning. The sinner who has become distanced from God because of his sin now returns to Him. The first step in correcting the wrongdoing is not God’s forgiveness but the sinner’s act of returning to God.”

This is accomplished, Margalit writes, first and foremost by the offender showing remorse. Why is remorse so crucial to the return of the offender to the fold, and to the reconciliation between the wrongdoer and the community that forgives?

Margalit’s insight is instructive: “Remorse offers us a non-magical way of undoing the past. Although it is impossible to undo what has been done, since the past cannot be changed, it is possible to change our interpretation of the past. By expressing remorse the offender presents himself in a new light, a light that can be projected into the past. His ability to feel remorse attests that he is not basically evil, even if the act that he performed was abominable. The sinner does not deny the badness of his deed, as then he would not be expressing remorse, but his very assumption of responsibility for the deed is supposed to create a rift between the act and the doer. Thus, an offender can be forgiven even if the offense cannot be forgotten.”

Let us apply this insight to two of our past presidents, Ferdinand Marcos and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who were accused of committing acts considered abominable by society but were never punished. Marcos died in exile before the cases filed against him could be heard and decided. He was defiant till the end and never admitted committing any wrongdoing. A large portion of his wealth was nonetheless pronounced ill-gotten and was confiscated by the government.

A US court declared his regime guilty of human rights violations and awarded compensation to the victims. But the rest of his family had no problem returning to the country from exile after his death. His wife Imelda is now a member of the House of Representatives, his oldest daughter Imee, the governor of Ilocos Norte, and his son Ferdinand Jr., a senator of the republic. Feeling perhaps vindicated by electoral success, they now want a hero’s burial for the former dictator. There is not even a hint of remorse here, no confession, and certainly no atonement. By demanding a hero’s burial for Marcos, they want the nation, in effect, to confess that it had made a mistake in deposing him as president. That is what moving on means in this context.

Gloria Arroyo’s case is slightly different. After claiming the presidency a second time on the back of a highly-disputed electoral outcome, GMA did everything to cover up the criminal acts that went into ensuring her dubious victory at the polls.

The issue came to a head in mid-2005 when recordings of conversations between election operators and politicians, including Arroyo, surfaced. The “Hello Garci” tapes plunged the government into a crisis and prompted the carefully crafted “I-am-sorry” statement of GMA on television. Was this a gesture of remorse that merits reciprocal forgiveness? I think not. This was an attempt at evasion, not atonement. By re-describing her act as merely “a lapse in judgment,” Arroyo sought to decriminalize it. Her subsequent statements were a virtual denial of her participation in these taped conversations.

Now that witnesses have come forward, and the trail of evidence and testimony seems to be leading to the doorstep of the Arroyos, we again hear that tiresome refrain about moving on. It is not forgiveness they seek, but, rather, forgetfulness.
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Polygamy, it is stressfull

Some Malaysian women are up against polygamy.

Economic life of Filipinos during Spanish regime

Economic life during the Spanish period.

Pre Spanish social classes

Pre-Spanish social classes in the Philippines.

Social Classes in the Philippines

Philippine social classes.

History of Internet

http://youtu.be/9hIQjrMHTv4 Internet history in 8-minutes.

Did you know?

Students of SO 101 are encouraged to view the video Did you know? What could be the impact of technology in future life?

Did you know 4.0?

The future is the road we have now. Click on title.

Did you know?

Did you know?

Evolution

Evolution

Supplementary reading on geology

SO 101 students, please see the latest posting on Earth's geological period. Care to read and view the animation.

Thanks.

Earth's geological period.

Our geological periods.

Earth land masses past, today and future

Drugs for the brain

Brain enhancing drugs.

Boon or Bane?

Ecuadorean Villagers May Hold Secret to Longevity - NYTimes.com

Ecuadorean Villagers May Hold Secret to Longevity - NYTimes.com

Friend finder

Marriage in late life stage.

Late life marriage issues.

Flying with A-380

The future of flying at A380.

2001 Space Odyssey

Ever wonder the vastness of space? Our universe or multi-verse? Listen to this musice.

FUTURESTATES : Plastic Bag By Ramin Bahrani

FUTURESTATES : Plastic Bag By Ramin Bahrani

For SO 101 students. Please watch this film. We will discuss this next month.

Cherish, The Association

Welcome Freshmen

Welcome Freshmen to a new period of your life.

For starters do visit Carl Sagan's video clips. As a follow-up you can search for the tag "evolution" at the search engine by typing it in.

Carl's Sagan's work may have 12 episodes at YouTube, you can follow it up by viewing them at your free time, which is your choice, and make notes of the questions you have in mind so that we can discuss them in our class.

Sociology as a subject of human study is linked to the origins of humans because we have to answer the question, "Where did we come from?" We have to understand in a scientific way or other tools to understand or origins, our purpose and our destiny as human is this "blue planet" (as seen from outer space).

I encourage you to learn more about this by doing research and by publishing your thoughts about it in your own blogspot.

Enjoy the journey of learning, a life-long learning.

Carl Sagan's Our place in the universe

Carl Sagan's Our place in the universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUF38eHqdxs&feature=related

Carl Sagan, History of Life

Carl Sagan's history of life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kOLIHi9pTY&feature=related