The PSS Board elected its officers during the Board Meeting on 07 December 2009. The Board, elected during the General Elections on 17 October 2009, will serve for two years effective January 2010. The officers and members of the Board are:President: Dr. Cynthia Rose B. Bautista (University of the Philippines-Diliman)Vice-President: Dr. Virginia Miralao (Philippine Social Science Council)

The Philippine Sociological Society elected its new Board of Directors on 17 October 2009. The members of the Board, who will serve from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2011, are:

Dr. Filomeno Aguilar Jr (Ateneo de Manila University), Ms.  Zona Hildegard Amper (University of San Carlos), Dr. Ma. Cynthia Rose Bautista (University of the Philippines in Diliman), Ms. Leslie Lopez (Ateneo de Manila University), Ms. Lorna Makil (Silliman University), Dr. Virginia Miralao (Philippine Social Science Council), and Dr. Emma Porio (Ateneo de Manila University).  Immediate past president, Dr. Manuel Diaz, will also join the Board.

The PSS Board would like to thank the members who participated in the nomination and election processes. Serving in the 2009 PSS Elections Committee were Dr. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Dr. Esmeralda Sanchez, and Fr. Delfo Canceran.

Please click here: PSS National Conference Program and About the Plenary Speakers.

The venue of the 2009 PSS National Conference on 16-17 October 2009 has been moved from UP Baguio to the Philippine Social Science Center in Quezon City.

The heavy flooding and threat of landslides brought about by the typhoons have made travel to Baguio very difficult and unsafe.

Should you have concerns and questions, please call the PSS Secretariat at 929-2671.

 The 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society will take place on 16-17 October at UP Baguio. For  information about accommodation and travel, please click conference-travel-advisory.doc.

The Board of the Philippine Sociological Society and the Conference Organizing Committee would like to thank the following for the successful 2008 Philippine Sociological Society National Conference held in Philippine Social Science Council, Diliman, Quezon City on 17-18 October 2008:
Dr Manny Diaz, our President, for taking-over the leadership  and spearheading the organization for the 2008 Conference.

Our Key Note Speakers:

1. Dr. Gelia Castillo
2. Dr. Mercedes B. Concepcion
3. Dr. Maria Cynthia Rose B. Bautista
4. Dr. Virginia Miralao

Dr. Emma Porio, who organized the Plenary Session

Dr. Filomeno Aguilar who encouraged many aspiring sociologists to pursue research and publication in his lecture on journal article writing

The Philippine Social Science Council, Inc. for the conference assistance including the secretariat support of Ms. Karen Barrios and Ms. Charmaine Escueta

Ms. Emily Roque, Ms. Anna Santos and Mr. AC Vitangcol for helping out in the conference registration.

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Conference paper presentors, chairs, and participants, whose presence made the PSS achieve the goal it sets for national conferences: a venue for developing intellectual and social capital.

SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION AND ACTION:
NEW REALITIES AND EMERGING FRAMES

University of the Philippines-Baguio
16-17 October 2009

Doing sociology takes many forms. What distinguishes sociological work is the way sociologists examine and engage the social world using the “sociological imagination.” This year’s PSS conference highlights the many ways sociologists articulate the sociological imagination.  Papers proposing new perspectives on the following topics are welcome:
- food security and development;
- peace and conflict;
- religious movements;
- environment and climate change;
- science and technology;
- urban/rural transformation;
- migration; and
- civil soceity, politics and governance..

 Abstracts of proposed papers should not exceed 200 words and should state clearly the research question(s), key arguments and major findings.

Please send abstracts of proposed papers and panels  to the PSS Conference Secretariat through projects@pssc.org.ph by 30 June 2009.

Registration fee:
Professionals: P1,500.00
Students: P800.00

Full papers may be considered for a conference grant (travel, accommodation and registration).

Deadline for full papers: 30 August 2009.

The Philippine Sociological Review, along with 21 other journals, is now available on the new Philippines Journals Online website, following The Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL) Publishing Quality and Online Strategy Workshop which was held at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, the Philippines on May 21-23 2008. Dr. Emma Porio of the PSS Board of Directors represented the PSS at the workshop.

Please visit:
http://www.philjol.info

The Philippine Sociological Review, the peer-reviewed journal of the Philippine Sociological Society welcomes articles for its 2007 (special issue on new media: Raul Pertierra, editor)/2008 (special issue on migration, Stella Go, editor)/2009 (open call, Manuel Diaz, editor) issues. The standard length of papers is 6,000 words (approximately 20 pages typed double spaced), but shorter contributions are also welcomed. Please include an abstract of 100-200 words.

Contributors are asked to email their articles to Ms. Grace Hain, PSS Secretariat, projects@pssc.org.ph.

RECENT PSR ISSUES:
Vol. 54 (2006). Science and technology in the Philippines as culture and practice (Editor: Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu)

Vol. 53 (2005). Social capital (Editors: Emma Porio and Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu)

Vol. 52 (2004). New social scientists and their contributions to knowledge production (Editors: Emma Porio and Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu

Vol. 51 (2003). Cultures of coping: Living with disaster in the Philippines (Editors: Greg Bankoff and Ma. Cynthia Rose Bautista

Vol. 50. (2002). Environment, society and culture (Editor: Corazon Lamug)

The PSS Board chose its officers during its Board Meeting on 9 January 2008. The Board, elected during the General Elections held on 20 October 2007, will serve for two years effective January 2008. The officers and members of the Board are:

President: Dr. Corazon Lamug (University of the Philippines at Los Banos)
Vice-President: Dr. Manuel Diaz (Philippine Social Science Council)
Secretary: Ms. Leslie Lopez (Ateneo de Manila University)
Treasurer: Ms. Myla Arcinas (De La Salle University)
Members:  Ms. Josephine Dionisio (University of the Philippines
                 in Diliman)
                 Dr. Emma Porio (Ateneo de Manila University)
                 Dr. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu (Ateneo de Manila
                 University) (ex-officio)

Dr. Lamug is Profesor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences and former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Banos. She served as President of the PSS from 1992-1996.

The PSS would like to thank the 2006-2007 Board for ensuring that the association fulfill its role in fostering a community of professionals in the country whose careers have a fundamental connection to Sociology and that it becomes part of international community of sociologists.
The 2006-2007 Members of the Board:
Dr. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu (President), Dr. Liza Lim (Vice-President), Dr. Dennis Erasga (Secretary), Ms. Myla Arcinas (Treasurer) and Board of Directors: Dr. Filomeno Aguilar, Jr. Ms. Nina Castillo-Carandang, Dr. Emma Porio, and Dr. Ma. Elena Chiong-Javier.