Finals Contemporary Issues III AY 13-14

FINALS TAKE HOME

Due: 7 am, Monday, May 19, 2014

Email to: apalamon@gmail.com

11)    Film Review of Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?

a)    Who are the characters and what group in Philippine society do the characters represent?

b)   Answer the question of the film title (taking into account the ppt presentation uploaded here)
link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ya2bhW_Wi9ba_ZiNa3FXcrLBlpdT2H4NvA3I5TzLHns/edit?usp=sharing

22)    How do we change things in our country? (react to the essay on social violence at: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/04/01/alamon-social-violence-335986)

Materials for Reports: Contemporary Philippine Issues

DEAR STUDENTS IN PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES FOR SUMMER AY 13-14:

Here are links that you must use as additional material for your reports. I am currently sick today and most probably until tomorrow (May 12-13, 2014). If you receive no info, then we will meet on Wed., May 14, 2014. We will have two groups per day thereon.

Please note the outline:

What – what is the social issue, definition, status in philippine society, etc

Why – what are the causes, origins, evolution, etc

How – what are the solutions, etc

Prof. Alamon

On Poverty and Inequality

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/05/06/alamon-road-341459

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/03/14/alamon-stop-333026

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/02/07/alamon-story-us-327120

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/12/31/alamon-beauty-and-madness-321085

On Corruption

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/12/17/alamon-vultures-319235

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/11/01/alamon-beat-brat-311634

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/10/04/alamon-corruption-and-filipino-family-306748

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/09/27/alamon-courage-and-betrayal-305542

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/09/20/alamon-boiling-point-304240

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/09/09/alamon-defense-pork-302364

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/08/20/alamon-mirage-298761

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/08/02/alamon-porky-pie-295733

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/05/21/alamon-patrons-and-martyrs-283461

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/05/23/alamon-patrons-and-martyrs-part-2-283843

On OFW

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/12/20/alamon-zulu-echo-5-319757

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/07/16/alamon-paeng-home-292674

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/05/31/alamon-mdme-genita-and-home-285020

On Social Apathy

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/05/02/alamon-squeeze-340843

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/04/22/alamon-jaded-339201

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/04/01/alamon-social-violence-335986

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/02/28/alamon-best-and-worst-330617

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/02/14/alamon-question-trust-part-2-328263

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2014/02/11/alamon-question-trust-327699

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/12/13/alamon-good-life-318577

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/08/13/alamon-old-activist-tescil-and-baba-297556

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/07/24/alamon-mobs-promise-294051

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/07/12/alamon-young-activist-292109

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/opinion/2013/07/04/alamon-cowards-290669

Guide Questions to Final Oral Exams

Marx

1.    What did Marx adopt and discard from Hegel?

2.    How will the proletarian revolution come about according to Marx?

3.    What is the role of culture in maintaining the relations of production according to Marx?

4.    Why has the proletarian revolution not occurred?

5.    What is the relevance of Marx’s thought to the discipline of Sociology and to the current political economic situation of the nation?

Weber

1.    How did Weber turn Marx upon his head?Was there really a break in Weber’s thought from Marx?

2.    Why did Weber think that the Protestant Ethic was the Spirit of Capitalism?

3.    What was his fear about capitalism and the modern bureaucracy?

4.    Explain Weber’s anti-structuralist approach to the study of society.

5.    In what way was Weber considered the quintessential sociologist?

Durkheim and Parsons

1.    Just like Marx, why was Durkheim considered a structuralist?

2.    What was Durkheim’s assertion about society which enables Sociologists to study human behaviour similar to the study of natural science of natural phenomena?

3.    Central to Durkheim’s work on suicide and religion was the concept of Social Solidarity. How did this concept figure in his theoretizations on these two works?

4.    If Marx and Durkheim were to debate, In what areas would they not agree and why?

5.    How did Parsons continue Durkheim’s work?