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

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The transformation of social institutions
Disjunctures, confluences and continuities

The Conference seeks to encourage scholarly analyses of the nature of on-going changes—disjunctures, confluences, and continuities currently occurring in our social institutions. It is envisioned that these analyses and discussions, anchored on advancing social scientific discourse on current issues, will elucidate how these changes relate to global and local contexts.

Abstracts of proposed papers should not exceed 200 words and should state clearly the research question(s) and key arguments; the methodology and theoretical perspective should also be mentioned.

Please send individual paper and panel proposals and abstracts to PSS Conference Secretariat by 30 July 2008 thru email: projects@pssc.org.ph or telefax: (02) 924-4178.

DATE: 17-18 October 2008
VENUE: University of the Philippines - Los Baños, College, Laguna
REGISTRATION FEE
Professionals P1,500.00
Students P800.00

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.

On behalf of the Board of the Philippine Sociological Society and the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to thank

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Ateneo de Manila University, host of this year’s national conference. In particular, I would like to thank
Ms. Bernadette Pascua
Ms. Patricia Gonzalez
Ms. Emily Roque
Mr. Skilty Labastilla
Mr. Jerry Apolonio
Ms. Jaja Barriga
Ms. Dana Bunag
Ms. Anna Santos and
Ms. Angelle Leynes

The AVR and Maintenance Staff of the Loyola Schools

The Office of the Dean of the School of Social Sciences, especially for the flowers

Dr. Anne Raffin, our Keynote Speaker

Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, S.J., who gave the Opening Remarks

Dr. Ma. Cynthia Rose Banzon-Bautista
Dr. Allan Bernardo
Dr. Virginia Miralao, our Plenary Session speakers

Dr. Emma Porio, who organized the Plenary Session

Dr. Ricardo Abad, who inspired many young and aspiring sociologists in his communication skills workshop

Philippine Social Science Council

Ms. Grace Hain and Ms. Karen Barrios

 &

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.

Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Dr. rer. soc.
PSS President, 2006-2007

We are pleased to announce that the 2008 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society will be held in Cebu City. The conference host will be the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of San Carlos (USC).

It is also with pleasure that we announce that the Mindanao State University (MSU) in General Santos City will host the 2009 National Conference.

Ms. Zona Amper (USC) and Dr. Mario Aguja (MSU) offered to host these conferences during the Business Meeting of the Philippine Sociological Society on 20 October 2007.

See you in October 2008 in Cebu !

Download Campus map here. 

The National Conference will be held at Ching Tan Hall, John Gokongwei School of Management, Ateneo de Manila University. To get to the conference venue:

1) Enter Gate 3 and go straight to the University Road until you reach the Social Sciences Building. Turn right.
2) Go straight, passing by the Rizal Library and Manuel V Pangilinan (MVP) Building on your left and the dela Costa and Faura Hall on your right. Turn left when you reach the Philippine Institute of Pure and Applied Chemistry (PIPAC). You have already reached the Science Education Complex (SEC) parking lot (those who will come with their cars can use this parking lot).
3) From the SEC parking lot, use the SEC walkways. The Ching Tan Hall of the School of Management (SOM) is located beside the PLDT Convergent Technologies Center.

Philippine Sociological Society
19-20 October 2007
Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Sociologizing Education: Meanings, Processes, and Institutions
19 October 2007 (Friday)
Opening Session
Escaler Hall
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 National Anthem/Invocation

               Welcome Remarks
Dr. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu
President, Philippine Sociological Society

9:10-9:25 Opening Remarks
Fr. Bienvenido Nebres
President, Ateneo de Manila University

9:25-9:30 Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Dr. Filomeno Aguilar, Jr.
Chair, Conference Organizing Committee

9:30-10:00 Keynote Address
Dr. Anne Raffin, National University of Singapore

10:20-11:20 Plenary Session
Chair: Dr. Emma Porio (Ateneo de Manila University)
Speakers:
Dr. Ma. Cynthia Rose Banzon-Bautista (UP Diliman)
Dr. Allan B.I. Bernardo (De La Salle University)
Dr. Virginia Miralao (Philippine Social Science Council)
11:20-12:00 Open Forum
12:00-13:00 Lunch

Parallel Sessions
Session 1 Religion and Education
Joint Session of the Philippine Sociological Society and the Philippine Association for the Sociology of Religion
Venue: Escaler Hall
13:00-13:20 Catholic-Based Practices and Muslim Students in a
Philippine Public School
Ms. Melissa Howell-Alipalo, Asian Development Bank
13:20-13:40 The Formation of Priestly Character in Contemporary
Roman Catholic Seminary Institutions: Towards a
Sociological Framework to Interpret an Educational Practice
Mr. Manuel Sapitula, UP Diliman
13:40-14:00 Lay Filipino Catholics’ Social Constructionist Learning
of Roman Catholic Ideology
Mr. Emmanuel Batoon, University of Santo Tomas
14:00-14:20 Creation-Centered Spirituality as an Alternative
Framework in the Teaching of the Sacraments: An
Exploratory Study
Dr. Vicky Corral, University of Santo Tomas
14:20-15:00 Open Forum

Session 2 History, Ethnicity, Culture and Education
Venue: Ching Tan Room
13:00-13:20 The Social Reproduction of Colonial Ideology in the
Context of the Filipina’s Nineteenth Century Education
Ms. Charita de los Reyes, UP Baguio
13:20-13:40 Physical Education, Race and Postcolonialism in the
Philippines
Mr. Lou Antolihao, National University of Singapore
13:40-14:00 Reflections on Performance Realities: “Pagbulas ng
Sibol” as a Case Study
Mr. Dennis Gupa, Mr. Reagan Maiquez and Ms. Joyce
Ocampo, UP Los Baños
14:00-14:20 Sociologizing the NSTP-CWTS: The Case of
Santa Barbara Educational Foundation
Mr. Simon Caday, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Manila
14:20-15:00 Open Forum

15:00-15:20 Coffee Break

Session 3 Education, Critical Theory, and Reality
Venue: Escaler Halll
15:20-15:40 Using Critical Theory to Find Meaning in the
Classroom: Experiences in Andragogical Ways of
Promoting Critical Thinking
Dr. Daylinda Banzon-Cabanilla, UP Los Baños
15:40-16:00 Adorno and Horkheimer on Critical Theory, Religion
and Education
Dr. Mark Joseph Calano, UP Baguio
16:00-16:20 The State of Philippine Education from Bourdieu’s
Sociology of Education
Mr. Delfo Canceran, University of Aquinas, Legazpi
16:20-16:40 Philippine Education and the Depolization of the
Filipino Citizenry
Mr. Mario Aguja, Mindanao State University
16:40-17:20 Open Forum

Session 4 Education’s Wider Context
Venue: Ching Tan Room
15:20-15:40 Managing Poverty and Education: A Social
Phenomenological Inquiry
Dr. Antonio Tamayao, Cagayan State University
15:40-16:00 Education Regimes, Filipino Teachers and Marriage
Migration to Australia
Dr. Cleonicki Saroca, UP Diliman
16:00-16:20 Technology in Student-Centered Learning: The
Classroom as Theater
Marcia Czarina Corazon Medina, Ateneo de Manila
University
16:20-16:40 Challenges and Implications of Globalization in the
Field of Higher Education
Mr. Noel Rafer, Bicol University
16:40-17:20 Open Forum

20 October 2007
Session 5 Schools and Knowledge (Re)Production
Venue: Escaler Hall
9:00-9:20Towards Transforming Classrooms into Venues for Intercivilizational Dialogues: ICTs as Disruptive Technology
Ms. Josephine Dionisio, University of the Philippines, Diliman
9:20-9:40 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Philippine Universities and Knowledge Production
Mr. Leland Joseph de la Cruz, Ateneo de Manila University/University of the Philippines, Diliman
9:40-10:00 Military Educational Institutions and their Role in the Reproduction of Inequality in the Philippines
Ms. Leslie Advincula-Lopez, Ateneo de Manila University/University of the Philippines, Diliman
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Business Meeting
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Workshop
13:00-17:00 Communication Skills for Sociology Teachers
Dr. Ricardo Abad (Ateneo de Manila University)
2001 Metrobank Outstanding Teacher awardee

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Conference fees

Two day-participation rate:
Professional: P1,500
Student: P600
One-day participation rate:
Professional: P1,000

To avail of the discounted registration rate for professionals (P1,200), please deposit the amount to the PSS bank account at the Bank Philippine Islands, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Account Number 3081-0840-32 by 30 September 2007. Please give the details of the deposit transaction to the PSS Secretariat (c/o Ms. Grace Hain) by fax (02)922-9621 or email (projects@pssc.org.ph). Please also present the bank transaction slip at the registration counter on the day of the conference.

WORKSHOP: Dr. R. Abad would like to know the number of participants well ahead of the workshop. We are therefore requesting prospective participants to pre-register by 8 October 2007.  Please provide names/affiliation/contact details of prospective workshop participant(s) to the PSS Secretariat (Tel: 929-2671; fax: 922-9621, email: projects@pssc.org.ph or if a PSS member, please use the registration form emailed to you.

Pi Gamma Mu
invites everyone to a lecture on

“Finding People in Non-People Events: The Task of the Social Scientist”
by
Dr. Gelia T. Castillo, National Scientist
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 2:30 p.m.
Palma Hall 207, UP Diliman, Quezon City
For inquiries: Department of Sociology, UP Diliman Tel: 925-2953