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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.

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

Dr. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, PSS President (2006-07), has been named 2007 “Outstanding Young Scientist” in the field of Sociology by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Philippines.
Dr. Saloma-Akpedonu earned her academic degrees from Universitaet Bielefeld (Dr. rer. soc., magna cum laude), Peking University (MA Population Science), and University of the Philippines in Diliman (BA Sociology, cum laude). She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Secretary of the Board of the Research Committee on Science and Technology of the International Sociological Association. Her research interests lie in the everyday life-world. Her book, “Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces: Knowledge, Globality, Gender, and Information Technology in the Philippines” (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006), examines the everyday life-worlds of Filipino information technology professionals as they reflect changes in the global division of labor. In her recent study on Bohol vintage houses, she located her interest on everyday life-worlds within the sociology of the built environment.
This is the second time that a sociologist receives an OYS award from the NAST. Dr. Ma. Cynthia Rose Banzon-Bautista (UP Diliman), Dr. Saloma-Akpedonu’s teacher in the undergraduate program, won the award in 1988.

Dr. Virginia A. Miralao, Executive Director of the Philippine Social Science Council since 1996, has also been awarded “Outstanding Professional in the Social Sciences” by the UP Alumni Association in June 2007. Dr. Miralao is a sociologist who has written on the social components of education and curriculum reform; evaluation and social development; gender, family, youth; and migration.

The Philippine Sociological Society (PSS) became a collective member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) a non-profit association for scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences, in June 2006. The ISA has members from 109 countries.
At the 16th ISA World Congress of Sociology held on 23-29 July 2006 in Durban, South Africa, the PSS successfully supported Dr. Emma Porio’s election to the ISA Executive Committee. This position is the highest ever attained by a Filipino sociologist in this global association of sociologists. Dr. Porio who is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Ateneo de Manila University) was PSS President from 1999-2002.
Other PSS members who have positions in the ISA Research Committees (RC) are: Dr. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Secretary of the Board of the RC on the Sociology of Science and Technology; Dr. Esmeralda Sanchez, Board Member of the RC on the Sociology of Religion; and Mr. Clarence Batan, Board Member of the RC on the Sociology of Youth.

Philippine Association for the Sociology of Religion (PASR) International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (ISA RC22)

23-26 January 2008
University of Santo Tomas 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Themes:
Religions institutions and denominational studeis
Religious nationalism and ideology
Sacred/secular interface
Theology and social sciences discourses
New religious movements, alternative and conventional spiritualities
Popular religiousity, religious movements, and revitalization movements
Religion and gender relations
Religion, peace, and violence
Impact of traditions on religious consciousness
Religion and historical memory
Religion and urban modernities
Global flows and religious encounters

Abstracts may be submitted by email at secretariat.pasr@yahoo.com.ph or before 15 August 2007. It should not be more than 200 words, containing (a) proposed title, (b) key arguments/research questions, and (c) description of theoretical and/or methodological perspectives used. For additional information, contact Maneul Victor Sapitula, PASR Secretariat, at mjsapitula@up.edu.ph or visit the website at www.pasronline.org.