The Limits of the Earth

Water is being withdrawn from rivers as well. Seasonal water levels are dropping on China’s Yellow River, on the Nile in Egypt, on the Indus as far north as Pakistan, and on the Rio Grande in the US. Parts of the Colorado River are a stunning 130 feet below their historic levels. The river no longer reaches the sea. Nor does the Yellow River or dozens of others around the world that have been tapped for irrigation. The rivers that flow through Central Asia have been so massively drained for agriculture that the vast Aral Sea they once fed, once the fourth largest freshwater lake in the world, is now little more than a dry, salty lakebed, its former shore dotted with abandoned fishing villages and the bones of beached boats.

AL Pacino, Scent of a Woman

Al Pacino speaks, Scent of a Woman

AL Pacino delivers a speech.

A new design for education

Carita in Veritate - Charity in Truth

Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the authentic development of every person and of all humanity. Love — caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its origin in God, Eternal Love and Absolute Truth. Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32). To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, “rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6). All people feel the interior impulse to love authentically: love and truth never abandon them completely, because these are the vocation planted by God in the heart and mind of every human person. The search for love and truth is purified and liberated by Jesus Christ from the impoverishment that our humanity brings to it, and he reveals to us in all its fullness the initiative of love and the plan for true life that God has prepared for us. In Christ, charity in truth becomes the Face of his Person, a vocation for us to love our brothers and sisters in the truth of his plan. Indeed, he himself is the Truth (cf. Jn 14:6). (Third encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI, 29 June 2009)

Noam Chomsky, critic, linguistic scientist

Chomsky first came to prominence in 1959, with the argument, detailed in a book review (but already present in his first book, published two years earlier), that contrary to the prevailing idea that children learned language by copying and by reinforcement (ie behaviourism), basic grammatical arrangements were already present at birth. The argument revolutionised the study of linguistics; it had fundamental ramifications for anyone studying the mind. It also has interesting, even troubling ramifications for his politics. If we are born with innate structures of linguistic and by extension moral thought, isn't this a kind of determinism that denies political agency? What is the point of arguing for any change at all?

Walk in her shoes

Walk in her shoes.

Public Invitation

Asian Development Bank, No-Impact week

Awareness on the relationship between human activity and the environment has been pointed out environmentalist Rachel Carson on her book the silent spring. ADB is doing its job on protecting our shared environment. Watch this video.

Chimpanzee greetings, teach us.

Jane Goodall teaches who the chimpanzee greets welcome. http://www.ted.com/playlists/84/ancient_clues.html

Julie Ann Rodelas updated case

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/357611/arrest-of-brains-in-models-slay-legal Click on link for update

Why the dispute at the islets at West Philippine Sea?

Why is it that China and other countries in Southeast Asia have claims to Spratlys, Paracels and Scarborough islands? Clink on the link.

Mali, French forces pushing the rebels.

French forces responded to Mali's request to remove the rebel forces north of Mali. Click on the link.

Can we sustain the economic growth? Ted Talk

Is God close to the male specie?

Is God close to the male specie? What is the place of women in this socially constructed hierarchy?

Final Exam, Second Semester, 2012-2013

Final Exam 2013-2014 First 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 submit at least 5 film titles for selection and approval of your teacher. Once it is selected you have to view the film. Format: a. Title and group members, schedule. b. Summary of the film. One page. c. Film analysis using 30 sociological terms. Highlight the terms in different color. d. State the conflict and the resolution. e. Individual reflection of group members on what is it working with the group. f. Film trivia. g. Expenses incurred by members in coming out with the final project. Ask your teacher for the model work. Purchase a CD that is friendly to you pocket. No downloading from the computer. See local CD or DVD outlet. State if you are going to donate the CD copy. Deadlines will be announced.

Video on culture

Make a group with 4 members. You are to present 2 video from You Tube on cultural practices of Other's culture. The third one will be cultural practices of Filipino. Schedule will be announced.

Lesson on dying

A lesson on dying. She has pancreatic cancer and she wanted to teach to students what is dying. She died 29 December 2012.

Imagined Communities

My point of departure isthat nationality, or, as one might prefer to put it in view of that word's multiple significations, nation-ness, as well as nationalism, are cultural artefacts of a particular kind. Read this article in preparation for an activity this month.

Thy Womb, A filipino film, a riveting review

Thy Womb a riveting review by, Tito Genova Valiente. Click onlink

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