{"title":"Studying Science and Technology in the Philippines as Culture and Practice","authors":"Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilizing for Accountability: Contentious Politics in the Anti-Estrada Campaign","authors":"A. Arugay","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V52I0.933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V52I0.933","url":null,"abstract":"The anti-Estrada campaign that culminated in the so-called People Power II last January 2001 can be viewed as a testament to the efficacy and strength of collective mobilization in the Philippines. This paper discusses the mobilization in the form of protests and other mass actions as a strategy of civil society aimed at eliciting accountability from President Estrada. Utilizing the theory of contentious politics and the different strategies of the societal accountability framework, it examines the mobilization conducted by some civil society organizations (CSOs) from October 2000 to January 2001. It argues that the interplay of available mobilizing structures such as the Kongreso ng Mamayang Pilipino (Kompil II) and the Estrada Resign Movement (ERM), the collective action frames that focused on failure, impunity and injustice, the traditional and innovational forms of contention, and the existence of crucial political opportunities made the protest actions in the anti-Estrada campaign possible. It concludes by arguing that the shape and dynamics of future political mobilizations by civil society would be greatly influenced by this contentious political episode.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"52 1","pages":"75-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filipino children's social construction of socioeconomic differences : Everyday realities of street children and private school children","authors":"Yu Okuma","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V52I0.930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V52I0.930","url":null,"abstract":"Starting with the author's encounter with a stone-throwing incident, which involved different socioeconomic groups of children - street children and private school children - at Katipunan Avenue, this article seeks to understand the processes by which these two groups of children come to know about socioeconomic differences in their everyday lives. It first describes the avenue as an interface situation where encounters between street children and private school children are likely to happen. It subsequently clarifies the modes and the contents of children's knowledge construction of the other at the interface situation. Three findings are drawn from data gathered through key informant interviews and observations. One, children construct their common-sense knowledge of the other as they adjust to or reconcile with their own socioeconomic positions. Two, the ongoing process of knowledge construction involves the reinforcement of their understanding through actual encounters between the two groups and under the influence of other people and elements that are directly and inderectly related to interface encounters. Ultimately, the children themselves actively maintain social reality of socioeconomic differences.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"52 1","pages":"11-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF GLOBAL SERVICES IN THE OFFSHORE CALL CENTER: A VIEW FROM THE PHILIPPINES","authors":"A. Fabros","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.942","url":null,"abstract":"The call center enterprise in the Philippines has attracted considerable attention and debate. Associated with staggering statistics regarding growth, revenues, employment and earnings, the call center enterprise promises to be the new sunshine industry of the Philippines, with projections of as many as two million jobs by the year 2010. Amidst these developments, this study probes this global service production complex, exploring how fragmented operations spanning a global distance impinge on work conditions and experiences of Filipino call center agents. The study situates and substantiates projections and figures associated with the global call center phenomenon by providing a snapshot of global outsourcing from below. It problematizes the notion of global service work in the third party, offshore call center, examining its imperatives and implications, as well as its various dimensions and conditions. Working for almost six months in a call center in Metro Manila, and supplementing my interviews with agents, managers, and trainers from various call centers, I looked into the social production taking place within these sites, highlighting processes and practices of social and symbolic work in the production and exchange of global services within what I call a \"global economy of signs and selves.\" The study shows how the global restructuring of work and production to achieve increased levels of productivity, competitiveness, and profitability resulted in an intensified and dehumanized work regime. It demonstrates the expanding role of the agent in the offshore service platform, emphasizing the social dimensions and human costs of global outsourcing and the relentless pursuit of new efficiencies that underpins it. At the same time, the study illustrates how the Filipino call center agent locates herself within this global terrain, as well as identifies some ways by which agents negotiate and navigate through the structures and imperatives that constitute this global enterprise.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Alternative Concepts for a Filipino Car","authors":"D. Felipe","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.938","url":null,"abstract":"I am not an automotive engineer, i do not belong to the automotive industry, not a mover and shaker just an aficionado. I just found a reason to build my car because the service vehicle that I was provided in 1994—a Fiat Uno —had no more spare parts, since Francisco Motors terminated its contract with ItalCar in 1996. In the process of maintaining that car, I was introduced to the native genius of Filipino mechanics and auto tradesmen. The competence of these workers was on the practical, not on the theoretical side. They learned their trades through apprenticeship greasy, grimy, hands-on experience. The older workers never had a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) or a vocational school to train and certify them, but they were good. These are Filipinos who simply have a natural passion for making things work and making things run.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pertierra, Raul. Transforming Technologies: Altered Selves, Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines","authors":"S. Taipale","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.945","url":null,"abstract":"Pertierra, Raul. Transforming Technologies: Altered Selves, Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines . Manila: De La Salle University Press doi: 10.3860/psr.v54i0.945 Philippine Sociological Review Vol.54 2006 p.108-110","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"54 1","pages":"108-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bounded Pluralism: Politics and Participation in Health Policymaking","authors":"E. N. Leviste","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V52I0.931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V52I0.931","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the dynamics of politics and participation in a Philippine locality by examining how the health policy process works in the context of decentralization. Data from key informant interviews and observations of actual health policymaking and implementation activities show that the rise of new venues of power in a locality, such as the professional, educational, socio-civic or cultural, and religious sectors, will not necessarily translate to active private sector involvement in health policy-making. This is primarily due to the nature of everyday politics.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"52 1","pages":"37-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kompil II: A Study of Civil Society's Political Engagements","authors":"Djorina R. Velasco","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V52I0.934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V52I0.934","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a case study of the Kongreso ng Mamamayan Pilipino II (or Kompil II for short), a civil society formation active in the extra-parliamentary ouster of Philippine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada over charges of grave corruption and abuse of power in January 2001. The study illustrates the highly politicized nature of many Philippine civil society organizations (CSOs). It shows how the Kompil II coalition flexed its political muscle through mass actions, agenda building and alliance work. The research also demonstrates that although Kompil II members were united in their opposition to Estrada, their unity was sutured along two critical lines: (1) whether civil society leaders shall accept government positions and (2) whether CSOs shall endorse or campaign for political aspirants. Divergent outlooks among member organizations, thus, indicate the heterogeneous nature of Philippine civil society. The study concludes that in a political system such as in the Philippines - where political parties are weak and vested elite interests dominate formal politics - more vibrant and transformative political activity is possible outside the institutional shell of electoral politics, in civil society gatherings and in the 'parliament of the streets'.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"52 1","pages":"97-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Everyday Culture for a Scientific Orientation in Philippine Society: Are the Youth Any Different?","authors":"R. Pertierra","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.941","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the attitudes of Filipino youth towards science and technology. While the sample is derived mainly from elite educational institutions, the paper is more concerned with exemplarity rather than representativity. Moreover, the paper contextualizes these orientations around the culture of everyday life. It seeks to relate ordinary, often unperceived notions of culture, to attitudes towards science and technology. Notions of competence and achievement, ideas about nature and the environment, expectations of trust, risk, and the future determine the possibilities of developing a culture of scientific research and technological development. Globalization and the new communications media are increasingly pervasive forces in Philippine society. The youth are most affected by these new trends and orientations. Their response to these challenges will affect the future of science and technology in the Philippines. This paper, thus, explores how the culture of everyday life is adopted as well as transformed by the youth in the process of incorporating contemporary practices and responses to modernity.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}