{"title":"ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES","authors":"Maria Czarina, Corazon Medina","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.943","url":null,"abstract":"Epistemic communities consist of structures and selectivities in citation and referencing that scientists as \"practical and economic reasoners\" use in order to establish scientific credit and capital in their specialized field. Knowledge then becomes a product of social and economic shaping based on \"selectivities,\" or decision-making processes in the epistemic community. This paper looks at the use of online resources (i.e., journal databases) in the natural sciences programs (i.e., physics, chemistry, and biology) of two Philippine universities, through key informant interviews with graduating students, thesis advisers, and library personnel. In this context, scientific credit and capital are gained by researchers from the credibility of the resources that they use (i.e., authors and research institutions cited in their thesis), although this is limited by the availability of resources in the universities. The availability of online materials is associated with functional meanings such as convenience. Meanwhile, the substantive meanings of the availability of online resources show the dilemma of universities in balancing costs and research independence, since findings show that the online usage in both universities is insufficient to maximize the costs spent in purchasing the online resources. The first university values knowledge production more than cost-efficiency in the acquisition of references, thus, the structure of knowledge production is more accommodating to the selectivities of its researchers. In contrast, it is seen that the structure of knowledge production in the second university regard costs as more important. This causes its researchers to use non-online materials.","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":"70069825","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":"Professional Autobiography: A Perspective of the Culture and Practice of Science in the Philippines","authors":"M. A. Cuyegkeng","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.937","url":null,"abstract":"When I ask my students how they define science, they usually say that it is an \"organized body of knowledge.\" I do not like this definition because it makes science sound so stagnant and like a set of encyclopedia for show. I prefer the definition that highlights science as a process. Science is a rational inquiry into our world (Garcia 2003) and seeks understanding that is derived from a logical structure and that produces mental models to help us represent the world. Because of the logical structure and the mental models, there is a clear effort to make this understanding objective or separate from the persona making the inquiry. Steven Rose (2003) describes this aptly:","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":"70069140","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":"Interdisciplinary Work: Patterns and Practicalities","authors":"G. Castillo","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V54I0.940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V54I0.940","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents patterns and practicalities associated with an interdisciplinary mode of doing agricultural research. Interdisciplinary work requires that more than one component, one factor, one dimension, one aspect, and therefore more than one discipline is involved in carrying out research programs or projects. Approaches to interdisciplinary agricultural research can be categorized into eight typologies: conceptual; multicomponent; systems-oriented; consultative; hypothesis-testing; interactive, focused, problem-solving; action-research-in-action, and \"hybridized\". While there are clear gains from its pursuit, interdisciplinary work poses clear challenges: it entails relatively higher costs in terms of time, research staff, and skills requirements. It particularly relies on research leadership, support from funding agencies, and the ability of members of the research team to avoid professional enthnocentrism in their work.","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":"70069353","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 Nisei: The second generation Okinawan-Filipinos in Metro Manila","authors":"Johanna O. Zulueta","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V52I0.932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V52I0.932","url":null,"abstract":"How do second generation Okinawan-Filipinos or Nisei, who are offspring of intermarriages between an Okinawan and a Filipino, construct their ethnic identity? Based on interviews with eight Niseis residing in Metro Manila, the Nisei is found to have constructed his/her own identity by the use of the word 'Nisei'. While Nisei generally means second generation in Japanese, these Okinawan-Filipinos use the word Nisei to identify themseleves apart from other Japanese-Filipino offspring (those whose Japanese parent comes from the Japanese mainland). Being offspring of an Okinawan mother and a Filipino father, Niseis assert the fact that they are of Okinawan heritage, and that Okinawans constitute a distinct ethnic group in the Japanese nation-state. While asserting their distinctiveness as Okinawan-Filipinos, their identities are shaped by social conditions, including that of time and place. Practicality has also become a reason for these Niseis to assert their 'Okinawanness', especially with regards to employment opportunities in Japan.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"52 1","pages":"55-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069476","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 Capital in the Philippines: Results from a National Survey","authors":"R. Abad","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V53I0.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V53I0.135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069484","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 Dynamics of Civil Society Formation and Transformation in the Philippine Peace Movement: The Bangsamoro Struggle for a Just and Lasting Peace","authors":"A. Toohey","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V53I0.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V53I0.138","url":null,"abstract":"Civil society is recognised as comprising complex and multifaceted entities, resilient to and yet responsive to both the state apparatus and global market processes. Civil society in the Philippines, long regarded as one of the most vibrant, diverse and innovative in Asia, has emerged as a significant actor in the field of conflict resolution and peace-building during the past decade. Drawing on contemporary debates on the significance of key constructs in development and democratic discourses such as social capital, this paper interrogates the entanglements between civil society, the state and combatant groups and how such relationships have transformed the Philippine peace movement. In thinking about the work of peace, the effectiveness of civil society groups in mobilising societal awareness concerning the Bangsamoro struggle for a ‘just and lasting peace’ is examined. Questions pertaining to the effectiveness of such interventions in strengthening conflict prevention and peace-building are situated within contemporary debates concerning civil society’s role in development and democratisation processes.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"53 1","pages":"88-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069061","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 Accomplishment of Community among Small-Scale Fishers in Mercedes, Camarines Norte","authors":"C. B. Lamug","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V53I0.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V53I0.137","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based action research and other intervention programs have gained currency in such fields as forestry and natural resources. Many of these programs rely on old conceptualizations of community focusing on such features as territorial boundaries, common goals and even affective aspects. The paper offers an ethnomethodological understanding of community as an accomplishment; it proposes that the properties of social life which seem objective, factual and trans-situational, are actually managed accomplishments or achievements of local processes. The aim of the ethnomethodological inquiry is to analyze the situated conduct of fishers in order to see how \"objective\" properties of community are accomplished.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069043","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":"OFW Remittances, Community, Social and Personal Services and the Growth of Social Capital","authors":"Leslie Advincula-Lopez","doi":"10.3860/PSR.V53I0.136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/PSR.V53I0.136","url":null,"abstract":"Remittances of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) constitute one of the most important sources of foreign revenues for the Philippines in the last 30 years. While having the most direct and far-reaching impact on OFW families, remittances seemed to have failed to create a substantial social development impact both at the national level and the community-sending localities. These conclusions stem from the observation that majority of the remittances are spent on consumer durables, dwellings, and education for their children with only a small percentage of remittances being channeled into real productive investments. This study argues that OFWs invest in social and personal services to strengthen their bonds with family and friends, thereby, increasing their social status/security in the community. Drawing on existing case studies of communities with known high concentration of overseas workers, the study examines the social context of OFWs' spending patterns and shows how these investments make sense if considered within the structure of their social relations. Utilizing the concept of social embeddedness and social capital, the study illustrates that seemingly non-productive investments are actually investments in constructing social capital (e.g., education support for children/relatives, sponsorships in weddings/baptisms, medical assistance for relatives) and the social security of their families left behind as well as when the migrant eventually retires. The results of the study indicate that remittances do have an important role in the development of social capital both at the household and community levels through the expansion of the community's social and personal services (CSPS).This could enhance the quality of life both at the individual and community levels but could also exacerbate the heavy burden borne by overseas workers.","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069491","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":"Natural fertility in the Philippines.","authors":"E G Aquino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"30 1-4","pages":"113-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22033867","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":"Determinants of individual fertility and contraceptive use: a review and synthesis of the literature.","authors":"J J Card, W J Wood, E B Jayme","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85278,"journal":{"name":"Philippine sociological review","volume":"27 3","pages":"211-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22035097","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}