Church and State

I think the young Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, expressed this concept very well at a press conference in Rome this year. Explaining the principal message of the recent bishops’ synod on the new evangelization, he said: “In the message, we find a humble church, admitting that it does not understand everything that’s happening in the world. That it’s confused, that it has suffered, but it also admits its share in the wounds of society…. Humility for the Church is not a strategy; it is the way of Jesus. It is how God manifested himself to us in Jesus, and loved us in the form of Christ crucified.” Click above for the link.

Bishop Socrates Villegas statement hit by editorial

Read the article Contraception is not corruption. In a group with 5 members, discuss this issue. Research on the pros and cons of the Reproductive health bill. (As of this writing the Congress is going to tackle this bill 17 Dec. 2012). Write a two page report on your discussion. write the salient points of the article and reflect on those. You can also look for the full-text of Bishop Villegas pastoral letter. Submission of the 2-3 page report is on 22 & 23 Janauary.

Help Victims of TPablo and solidarity with ESI partner community.

SO 101 students, those who were not able to bring their donation. 3 classes will be donating the canned goods via INSA. INSA has a way to send it to Mindanao. 2 classes will donate goods going to ESI partner community at Tanay. Bring 3 canned goods for each student as donation. Deadline is 18th and 19th December. Submit to assigned collectors. All class hours.

Pyramid scam, Amman no futures

My sense is that everyone, except maybe the smallest investors, knew there was something irregular or illegal in this venture, and that it was bound to fail. But they didn’t seem to mind making a quick profit while the money lasted, probably thinking they would be able to get out before the collapse. They seemed confident that their inside connections would protect them. That’s the way a premodern society works.

Assignment on culture

Assignment on culture: Read the concept on cultural relativity, set up a group of five members and do a research and make a paper, 2 pages. Do not work on individual basis unless you have a good reason. State the reason behind the cultural practice. Example, what is the supposed reason for the female genital mutilation. Look for at least 10 cultural practices. State the name of society, the practice and the reason or the background of the said practice. Deadline: 6 & 7 December respectively according to schedule of classes. Please leave 3 inches margin from Word format as clear top page space. 12 points Arial, double space. Do not forget to indicate group names, date of submission, schedule and section. Any verbal instruction made inside our classroom is overruled by this document.

Causes of Poverty, BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-20398513 BBC explores the causes of poverty. Click on link.

The coming of reason, James Burke

A matter of fact, James Burke

Dumb ways to die

Order, rules, ritual

James Burke essays on order, rules and ritual. Watch this.

Gutenberg's printing that changed the world

Our world in 2020, a futuristic look

Amman Futures, Inflation of Trust

Pagadian city is reeling from the typhoon Amman Futures that visited them since January engulfing many to thy kingdoms come. More of this will unfold in the coming days. Heads will roll, some committed suicide, what will be the next. The future is just unfolding. Click below. Gullibility is relative. Its opposite is not cleverness but the inability to trust. Between the two poles lies a wide range of individual types who make decisions based on a combination of instinct, solid information and firm guarantees. We all belong to any of those types, as do most of Pagadian City’s small savers. As it usually happens, the higher the returns, the greater the risks—meaning, there is little information to go by and no guarantees. In such situations, one tends to go by one’s instincts and the assurances of people whose judgment we trust.

Amman Futures Pyramid Scam

Bring at last 2 newspaper clippings on 29th, 30th November. Subject matter is about the recent Amman Futures Pyramid scam. In a group of 5, discuss the article and submit a paper on why people get duped with this kind of proposal. One page only on bulletized format. All in word-processing format. Short bond paper. Write your group members, you section and schedule. Clippings will be submitted. State the date of your clippings and source.

Motivation

Born to learn

Taking risks

Where do good ideas come from? Steven Johnson

Pyramid scam

A company managed by a former janitor and driver, and founded just early this year, has duped at least 15,000 people in Mindanao and the Visayas of P12 billion in a pyramid scam, an official of the National Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. Read the article and we will schedule discussing this. Read on "group-think", following the crowd, critical thinking, http://globalnation.inquirer.net/56132/thousands-gypped-in-p12-billion-scam

Julie Ann Rodelas

Read news articles on Julie Ann. See what lesson can be learned from this horrible crime. We will discuss this on 23, 24 Nov. Bring along newspaper clippings.

Human Evolution

Please watch Carl Sagan's 4-minute video essay on human evolution. There is a search box in this blogspot and write evolution.

Stereotypes

I just got this link for facebook. Please click the link and see how the designers sees the world. http://alphadesigner.com/mapping-stereotypes/

Capitalism's Crisis by David Harvey

http://www.upworthy.com/an-honest-look-at-why-the-world-is-in-debt?c=to1# Click on this: David Harvey

Paper, Whys is our electricity bill so high?

This will be your last regular paper for September. Watch the animation on "Why is our electricity so high?" Send your discussion paper answering this question: Are the arguments discussed in the animation convincing? If yes, why? If no, why not? Do you think this kind of arrangement will continue in the next five years? If yes, why? If no why not? 27-28 September deadline respective schedule. Double space 12-points. A group shall compose of 4-members. Not exceeding this number,4. Below, it's ok.

Why is your electricity bill that high?

Watch this animated illustration to understand how the sins of the past, the capital intensive nature of the power industry, market forces, and moves for cleaner energy sources make their way into the electricy bill.

Clash of Culture?

I did not convert to Islam, nor did my Egyptian friends become atheists. But I learned an important lesson from our discussions: that I hadn’t properly thought through some of the most basic convictions underlying my way of life and worldview — from God’s existence to the human good. The challenge of my Egyptian friends forced me to think hard about these issues and defend views that had never been questioned in the European student milieu where I came from. Click on colored link.

New Theist

A new breed of theist is emerging in nearly every denomination and religion across the globe, and many of us are grateful to the New Atheists for calling us out of the closet. New Theists are not believers; we’re evidentialists. We value scientific, historic, and cross-cultural evidence over ancient texts, religious dogma, or ecclesiastical authority. We also value how an evidential worldview enriches and deepens our communion with God (Reality/Life/Universe/Wholeness/Great Mystery). New Theists are not supernaturalists; we’re naturalists. We are inspired and motivated more by this world and this life than by promises of a future otherworld or afterlife. This does not, however, mean that we diss uplifting or transcendent experiences, or disvalue mystery. We don’t. But neither do we see the mystical as divorced from the natural. As secular Jews differ from fundamentalist Jews, New Theists differ from traditional theists. While most of us value traditional religious language and rituals, and we certainly value community, we no longer interpret literally any of the otherworldly or supernatural-sounding language in our scriptures, creeds, and doctrines. Indeed, we interpret all mythic “night language” as one would interpret a dream: metaphorically, symbolically. New Theists practice what might be called a “practical spirituality.” Indeed, spirituality for us mostly means the mindset, heart-space, and tools that assist us in growing in right relationship to reality and supporting others in doing the same. New Theists are legion; we are diverse. Many of us continue to call ourselves Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Hindu. We may also self-identify as emergentist, evidentialist, freethinker, neo-humanist, pantheist, panentheist, or some other label. New Theists don’t believe in God. We know that throughout human history the word “God” has always and everywhere been a meaning-filled interpretation, a mythic and inspiring personification of forces and realities incomprehensible in a pre-scientific age. We also know that interpretations and personifications don’t exist or fail to exist. Rather, they are more or less helpful, more or less meaningful, more or less inspiring. New Theists view religion and religious language through an empirical, evidential, evolutionary lens, rather than through a theological or philosophical one. Indeed, an ability to distinguish subjective and objective reality—practical truth (that which reliably produces personal wholeness and social coherence) from factual truth (that which is measurably real) is one of the defining characteristics of New Theists. New Theists are religious naturalists. We do not have a creed (we’re not that organized), but if we did, it might simply be this… Reality is our God, evidence is our scripture, integrity is our religion, and ensuring a healthy future for the entire body of life is our mission. By “reality is our God” we mean that honoring and working with what is real, as evidentially and collectively discerned, and creatively imagining what could be in light of this, is our ultimate concern and commitment. By “evidence is our scripture” we mean that scientific, historic, and cross-cultural evidence provide a better understanding and a more authoritative map of how things are and which things matter (or what’s real and what’s important) than do ancient mythic writings or handed-down wisdom. By “integrity is our religion” we mean that living in right relationship to reality and helping others and our species do the same is our great responsibility and joy. By “ensuring a healthy future for the entire body of life is our mission” we mean that working with people of all backgrounds and beliefs in service of a vibrant future for planet Earth and all its gloriously diverse species (including Homo sapiens) is our divine calling and privilege. Why call ourselves “theists” at all if we’re not supernatural, otherworldly believers? Simply this… All theological “isms” (e.g., theism, deism, pantheism, atheism) came into being long before we had an evolutionary understanding of emergence. Therefore, all such concepts are outdated, misleading, and unnecessarily divisive if they are not redefined and reinterpreted in an evolutionary context. Other terms that have been offered, in addition to “New Theist,” include “evolutionary theist,” “naturalistic theist,” “evolutionary humanist,” “religious humanist,” “post-theist,” “mytheist,” and “creatheist” (pronounced variously, and humorously, as “crea-theist” or “cree-atheist”). Labels are far less important to us than celebrating the fact that we are naturalists who wish to be counted among the religious of the world—no less than all others who are devoted to something sacred and larger than themselves. Whatever our differences, we are evidentialists, committed to living upstanding moral lives in service of a just and thriving future for humanity and the larger body of life. We see this as Religion 2.0.

Final Exam project 2012-13 Second semester

Final Exam 2012-2013 Second Semester Final Exam, SO 101, Film Analysis 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 lesson. 4. A minimum of 30 sociological terms 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. Written essay tackling the film's theme, the problem or conflict involved or how it was 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. On our regular meeting, I will be needing at least 3 suggested titles that you wanted to analyze. Please submit the list in our class. Draft work will be shown: 5 & 6 March. Video on culture: 25 pts. Flag re-conceptualize 25 pts. Final film analysis: 50 pt.

Globalize This

The jobs are now being done for lower wages. This is, after all, the main reason manufacturing has moved to the third world; to take advantage of lower wages. This lowers costs, enough to pay for relocation and even added shipping costs. Efficient, right?

Digital ethnography, how does it affect you?

Digital ethnography and a new world. Click on the link. http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch?feature=results_main

RH Bill and Case against academic education? Assignment

Read the article written by Fr. Joaquin Bernas SJ and view the Case against academic education found in this blog spot. Discuss the paper and the video with your group members comprising of 4 members. If you agree with some of the ideas presented, write why you agree with it. If you do not agree with some of the ideas presented, write why you do not agree. Not exceeding 3 pages. Same format. Deadline: TTh, 30 Aug. WF, 31 Aug. Submit to your section paper collector for signing. Do not forget to indicate the date, your section and your class schedule. Thus, you are going to submit two group work.

RH bill a view from a religious

RH bill: Don’t burn the house to roast a pig By: Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas S. J. Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:51 am | Monday, August 6th, 2012 6975 6103 A little over a year ago, or on May 22, 2011 to be exact, I wrote an article for the Inquirer titled “My stand on the RH bill.” With the vote on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill approaching, people have asked me whether my stand on the bill has changed. Let me restate the salient points I made then. First, let me start by saying that I adhere to the teaching of the Church on artificial contraception even if I am aware that the teaching on the subject is not considered infallible doctrine by those who know more theology than I do. I know that some people consider me a heretic and that at the very least I should leave the priesthood. But my superiors still stand by me. Second (very important for me as a student of the Constitution and of church-state relations), I am very much aware of the fact that we live in a pluralist society where various religious groups have differing beliefs about the morality of artificial contraception, which is very much at the center of the controversy. But freedom of religion means more than just the freedom to believe. It also means the freedom to act or not to act according to what one believes. Hence, the state should not prevent people from practicing responsible parenthood according to their religious belief, nor may churchmen pressure President Aquino, by whatever means, to prevent people from acting according to their religious belief. As the Compendium on the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church says: “Because of its historical and cultural ties to a nation, a religious community (like the Catholic Church) might be given special recognition on the part of the State. Such recognition must in no way create discrimination within the civil or social order for other religious groups”; and “Those responsible for government are required to interpret the common good of their country not only according to the guidelines of the majority but also according to the effective good of all the members of the community, including the minority.” Third, the obligation to respect freedom of religion is also applicable to the state. Thus, I advocate careful recasting of the provision on mandatory sexual education in public schools without the consent of parents. (I assume that those who send their children to Catholic schools accept the program of Catholic schools on the subject.) My reason for requiring the consent of parents is, in addition to the free exercise of religion, there is the constitutional provision which recognizes the sanctity of the human family and “the natural and primary right of parents in the rearing of the youth for civic efficiency and the development of moral character.” (Article II, Section 12) Fourth, the duty to care for sexual and reproductive health of employees should be approached in a balanced way so that both the freedom of religion of employers and the welfare of workers will be attended to. In this regard it may be necessary to reformulate the provisions already found in the Labor Code. Fifth, I hold that public money may be spent for the promotion of reproductive health in ways that do not violate the Constitution. Thus, for instance, it may be legitimately spent for making available reproductive materials that are not abortifacient. Public money is neither Catholic, nor Protestant, nor Muslim or what have you and may be appropriated by Congress for the public good without violating the Constitution. Sixth, we should be careful not to distort what the RH bill says. The RH bill does not favor abortion. The bill clearly prohibits abortion as an assault against the right to life. Seventh, in addition, I hold that abortifacient pills and devices should be banned by the Food and Drug Administration. However, determining which of the pills in the market are abortifacient is something for the judicial process to determine with the aid of science experts. Our Supreme Court has already upheld the banning of at least one device found to be abortifacient. Eighth, I am dismayed by preachers telling parishioners that support for the RH bill ipso facto is a serious sin or merits excommunication! I find this to be irresponsible. Ninth, I claim no competence to debate about demographics. Tenth, I have never held that the RH bill is perfect. But if we have to have an RH law, I intend to contribute to its improvement as much as I can. I hold that the approval of the RH bill today will not end all debate about it. It will only shift the arena for debate from the raucous and noisy rally fields to the more sober judicial arena where reason has a better chance of prevailing. Finally, there are many valuable points in the bill’s Declaration of Policy and Guiding Principles which are desperately needed especially by poor women who cannot afford the cost of medical service. There are specific provisions which give substance to these good points. They should be saved even if we must litigate later about those which we disagree on. In other words, let us not burn the house just to roast a pig.

Case against academic education?

Noise your concern

Masakit na pananalita

20 words to change you life

China's claim to Scarborough shoal is baseless

China's claim to Scarborough shoal is baseless. Click on the link and read full article.

Future of Crime

The future of Crime by Marc Goodman. Watch.

Contemporary Health Studies

As a course leader of an undergraduate degree in health studies, I was often asked by students if I could recommend a really good book that would cover the key things that they needed to know when they were starting their 3 year degree programme. I wasn’t able to make such a recommendation at that time. Yes there are some books that touch upon relevant material, but many did not entirely cover the curriculum that I was delivering, and many were written in styles that I found unenticing hence my reluctance to provide a single recommendation.

Is China Buying the world?

How to make optimism work for you - NYT

His approach to life could serve as a battle plan for the millions of recent college graduates now searching for work in an unforgiving job market, as well as for older adults trying to re-enter the workplace after a long hiatus and those who lost jobs and must now reinvent themselves. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/how-to-make-optimism-work-for-you-2/?smid=FB-nytimes&WT.mc_id=BL-E-FB-SM-LIN-HTM-070512-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click

Higgs Boson, being sure

Daughter talks about fame and power

This is an article written by Sue Erikson Bloland. She is the daughter of Erik Erikson. My father was a tall man with an impressive shock of white hair, which gave him a distinctive and dignified look. He had kindly eyes and a gentle face. He appeared to be the quintessential father figure: concerned, compassionate, and knowing. With the advent of his fame he acquired a larger-than-life social aura, a special air of confidence, which nourished people's fantasies about him and suggested that he felt as wise and as comfortable with himself as they perceived him to be. His words, even his most casual remarks, were heard as profoundly meaningful, because of the reverence accorded their source. And people often felt deeply understood by him even in the course of a brief conversation -- the profundity of his empathic responses was magnified by his aura.

SO 101 Read Higgs boson article

Read the article by Randy David on Higgs boson God particle. A two page reflection paper on the said article will have 2 plus points. This is an optional paper. Deadline respectively in synchronize with your class schedule, 24 and 25 July, class hours only.

Higgs boson God particle

The God particle, written by Randy David A few days ago, my 11-year-old granddaughter, Julia, who is in Grade 6 at Miriam, a Catholic school, came up to me asking: “Lolo, why did God create the world?” It was a question her teacher in Christian Living Education had given to the class to think about over the weekend. “Hmm, let me see,” I said, quite flustered, but trying not to show it. Click on the link for the full article.

Socialization Model

What is Crime

A crime is a deviation from the social norm that is of such magnitude as to go beyond what would be considered bad manners or odd behavior. Societies respond to such exceptionally deviant actions by creating laws to curb and sometimes punish them. There is no universal agreement between the societies of the world about what constitutes criminal behavior or how it should be dealt with. Sufficient ethnographic data have been collected over the last century to show that societies with different kinds of economies have radically different sorts of laws and legal concerns. Some activities that are defined as serious crimes in foraging societies are often not thought of as criminal at all in large-scale agricultural ones. The reverse is also true. The way these two dissimilar kinds of societies deal with crime is radically different as well. In order to understand these differences, it is necessary to examine their concepts of what constitutes crime and their approaches to dealing with it. Click on colored link

Social Control, Law and the Pastoralist

Social control entails rules of behavior that should be followed by the members of a society. Some of the rules of conduct fall into the realm of good manners as the culture defines them. As such they describe behavior that is socially desirable but not necessarily compulsory. Other rules of conduct are not optional and are enforced by laws. In complex, large-scale societies, laws are usually written down formally so that they can be known clearly to everyone. This is not the case with laws in small-scale societies such as those of foragers, pastoralists, and horticulturalists. Their laws commonly are much more informal, being rarely written down. Since they are part of the evolving oral tradition that is familiar to members of these societies, there is no need to explain them to anyone. However, people visiting from other societies are not likely to know what the laws are until there is a dispute.

Symbolic Interaction theory

Symbolic interactionism, or interactionism for short, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. This perspective has a long intellectual history, beginning with the German sociologist and economist, Max Weber (1864-1920) and the American philosopher, George H. Mead (1863-1931), both of whom emphasized the subjective meaning of human behavior, the social process, and pragmatism. Although there are a number of versions of interactionist thought, some deriving from phenomenological writings by philosophers, the following description offers a simplified amalgamation of these ideas, concentrating on points of convergence. Herbert Blumer, who studied with Mead at the University of Chicago, is responsible for coining the term, "symbolic interactionism," as well as for formulating the most prominent version of the theory (Blumer 1969).

Cognitive learning theory

Cognitive learning theory

Cognitivism

Reinforcement theory

Principles Of Reinforcement There are three basic principles of this theory. These are the Rules of Consequences. The three Rules describe the logical outcomes which typically occur after consequences. 1. Consequences which give Rewards increase a behavior. 2. Consequences which give Punishments decrease a behavior. 3. Consequences which give neither Rewards nor Punishments extinguish a behavior. Click on the link for full text.

Cambodia's love huts

Fil-Chinese Stereotypes

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/42341/chinese-and-filipino-in-the-world-of-dangerous-stereotypes

Socialization theory by Treynor

Being gay, Is it a choice?

Advisory SO 101

You are advised to click on the tag: Hans Rosling. View on how Hans Rosling present statistics without tears.

Rules for Being Human from the Sanskrit

Rules for Being Human Handed down from Ancient Sanskrit* (as paraphrased,2012) 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or not, but it will be yours for your entire life- journey. 2. You will learn lessons. Life is the school you are enrolled in. You will learn lots of lessons including stupid ones. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. 4. Learning a lesson is simply repeating it until it is learned. 5. Learning lessons is a continuous and endless process. If you are alive you learn lesson. But if you are alive and do not learn lessons, perhaps you are a zombie. 6. Learning occurs “Here”. 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. 8. What you make out of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need, what you do with them is all up to you. The choice is yours. 9. The answers lie inside you. All you need to do is to look, listen and trust. # *It is an Indo-Aryan language which traces back 1,500 BCE.

Lessons from the Sanskrit

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150961447789463&set=a.10150089103274463.272955.45126434462&type=1&ref=nf Please copy paste to your browser.

A beautiful and wonderful world.

Watch the video found in this blogspot, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD BY BBC AND DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, and write a group paper (with 5 members) and express 1. Why is it a beautiful and a wonderful world we have? 2. How as a group of people and preserve and sustain a wonderful world. Limit to only 3 pages double spaced. Submit in word processed format. Discuss this topic with your group and submit a unified paper NOT an individual paper attached to a bunch of papers. Deadline TTh July 24, WF July 25.

Did you know?

History of the world in 7-minutes

SO 101 Reports

All SO 101 group reports from chapter 1 should be sent to leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with the subject: powerpointso101, your full name, chapter title, date of reporting and submission. Thanks.

Rebel! Sr. Joan Chittister

Speaking to the Class of 2012, Sister Joan Chittister drew inspiration from the Buddhist monk Tetsugen, who spent years begging for money to translate the Buddhist scriptures into Japanese, but gave the money away twice – first to build houses for the homeless after a flood, then to feed the starving after a famine.

What a wonderful world BBC and David Attenborough

Abiogenesis, non-life to life

New Curriculum for the billion

Having spent much of the last three years visiting a wide variety of education projects in cities across the developing world, it strikes me that the first thing that people want is facility with a global language, usually English, but also in some places Spanish and, in others, Mandarin. They want a language that will give them access to people and jobs linked to global networks and trade – a business hotel, a job in retail, manning a phone in a call centre – rather than confining them to ply their trade in purely local markets.

Video Festival - SO 101, all sections

In this video festival, you are going make a group with four members. You are going to search for for a video from You tube about clips that you think is related to a chapter in our 16 chapters. You are going to identify what chapter this video clip is related. You are going to search for two video clips. The report schedule will be scheduled at the middle of July.

European Economic Crisis

Countries with too much sovereign debt have increasingly found it difficult to raise the money they need at affordable rates in the financial markets. At the same time, banks in many of these countries have come under pressure a......

Potatoes growing at the desert

They said it couldn't be done, but a group of Israeli agricultural experts have succeeded in helping local Colombian farmers grow potatoes in a harsh desert environment. "From this desert you might receive stones, but not potatoes," that's what local farmers in Colombia's northern La Guajira desert said when presented with an Israeli proposal to grow potatoes in the region. A year later, Israeli know-how and technology has won the day, and produced nothing short of a miracle as local farmers have harvested 11 tons of potatoes from the desert.

Failed States including Philippines

On failed states, Philippines included.

Chapter Reports

In your chapter report, you can also include one video that is related to your topic. Another video that is a trivia (un-related to the topic) another video is a song video that you want to share to the class. Thus, there can be three video presentation on your report. Report carries 100 points. Hint: If there are volunteer work that is issued, do volunteer because they carry plus points.

Culture: Video assignment

Greetings! Group yourselves with four members. Your task is to look for video materials of different cultural practices. A model of this is the Surma of Ethiopia. You can look this tag at You Tube. Or you can search for exotic foods of other countries. Ask for you scheduled presentation. We will have this on July and August.

New Assignment

Greetings! You are to view videos on the Big Bang theory. This is the theory of the origin of the universe and our solar system. Second, understand the theory of evolution. See the works of Carl Sagan. Write your own 2-pages reflection paper on the theory of evolution. TTh classes to be submitted 17 July, WF - 18 July. Please follow the recommended format for your paper work. This is paper 2 which is 100 points.

New SO 101 Assignment

Greetings! Below are your assignment to take. Read the instructions carefully. Should you or your group have any question/s write it at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com Or, you can ask it at our classroom. 1. View any video about how to present a power point. 2. Copy the video site at your notebook. Reserve it for future reference. 3. Chapter reporting for power point presentation:70% visuals and 30% concepts. Limit your report to 25 minutes. I will supplement your report or follow it up. 4. On paper submission: The format: a. Submitted paper should be written on a short white paper preferably using a word processor. It should be double-spaced at 12 points New Times Roman or Arial fonts. b. You name/s should appear at the left side top-most part of the paper. c. You article should start with a title which begins at the center of the paper (ask for a model of this paper at our classroom). Do not miss the date of submission for all these papers will have time schedule. No late papers. 5. Paper #1: Do a research on 1. WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? 2. WHAT IS SCIENCE? 3. WHAT IS MODERNITY? and 4. THE USES OF SOCIOLOGY. This will be a group paper comprising of 4 members. Do not forget to quote you reference at the end of the paper. For TTH class, papers shall be submitted 3 July, for WF it is 4 July. Good luck.

Schedule of Reporting by Classes SO 101 First Semester

Schedule of Reporting by Classes SO 101 First Semester Wednesday & Friday (WF) 7:30 am Chapter/s 1 - The Role and Scope of Sociology 2 - The Nature and Role of Group behavior 3 - Culture and behavior 4 - Socialization, Conformity and Deviance 5 - Social Processes 6 - Philippine Values 7 - Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Behavior 8 - Social Class 9 - Age, Sex, and Ethnicity 10- Institutions 11- The family 12- Religion and Society 13- The Rural community 14- The urban community 15- Populations, growth and distribution 16- Social Change Wednesday & Friday (WF) 7:30 am Chapter 1 - 27 June, De Leon, Katrina & Faustino, Caitlin Chapter 2 - 29 June, Alviar, Czarina & Delavega, Leana Chapter 3 - 04 July, Militar, Quennie & Santiago, Jiselle Chapter 4 - 11 July, Arpilleda, Ericka & Costa, Marithe Chapter 5 - 13 July, Sta. Maria, Camille & San Juan, Ann Chapter 6 - 25 July, Manga, Rhodora & Silvestre Jjam Chapter 7 - 27 July, Fajardo, Loriedel & Santillan, Kaleena Chapter 8 - 08 Aug, Samson, Joyce & Marty, Christine Chapter 9 - 10 Aug, Canlas, Blance & Hizon, Katrina Chapter10 - 22 Aug, Ramos, Angelene & Conopio, Andrea Chapter11 - 24 Aug, Gayod, Faith & Gabriel, Sarah Chapter12 - 12 Sept, Castigador, Monique & Guanzon, Colleen Chapter13 - 12 Sept, Go, francheska & Fesalbon C5 Chapter14 - 14 Sept, AL Leonidas Chapter15 - 19 Sept, Abejuela Lyza & Faelgo, Patricia Chapter16 - 21 Sept, Tablada, Catherine * Sevilla, Carmella End of entry ***

Read Dr. Mahathir Mohammad and Philippine Democracy

All freshmen year please read the material published here entitled, Dr. Mahatir Mohamad. We will be discussing this article in one of our session.

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Philippine democracy

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was right when he posited that the Philippines could not emulate the Western model of democracy, because having freedom without limits creates gridlock and imperils economic development. Indeed, Filipinos do not seem to possess the political maturity needed to make a free society work well – generally speaking. But with all due respect to the former Malaysian prime minister, the Asian model of leadership by a “benevolent dictator” is likewise the wrong model for this country. Instead, we Filipinos should fashion our own style of democracy, one that suits our history and culture. Please click on the link.

Welcome Freshmen, SY 2012-2013

Dear Freshmen students, Welcome to SY 2012-2013,First semester. This blogspot is a platform to communicate with you. You are advised to visit this site for the duration of the semester. Assignments, notices, instructions will be posted here. You will be informed as to the tasks at hand in our course. Thank you and see you again.

The Third stage, Jane Fonda

Final Exam 2012-2013 First Semester

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 lesson. 4. A minimum of 30 sociological terms 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. Written essay tackling the film's theme, the problem or conflict involved or how it was 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. On our regular meeting, I will be needing at least 3 suggested titles that you wanted to analyze.

Celebrating Maryknoll's 100 years presence