Pub Date : 2010-08-18DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1578
T. Matejowsky
Local health and foodways are exposed to new and problematic elements as corporate fast food becomes increasingly ubiquitous. A 2005 consumer survey completed by 160 college-age women and men in provinces in the Philippines elucidates how fast food is conceptualized and its effects mediated locally. Paying attention to intersections of gender and fast food amid ongoing rivalries between global (McDonald’s) and local (Jollibee) restaurant chains, this paper addresses the (dis)similarities underlying: (1) how fast food is regarded in terms of diet, nutrition, and hunger satisfaction; and (2) how prevailing consumption patterns manifest themselves within the gendered framework of local populations.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1580
Carmelo L. Martinez
The study looks at the different factors that make street youth decide whether to leave the streets and stay in shelters or to continue to choose life in the streets, despite opportunities provided them in shelters. Qualitative methods primarily, focused group discussions (FGD), in-depth interviews and indigenous methods were employed. Participants were street youth from Metro Manila ages 11 to 18 who have tried the life inside the shelter. Results show that the important factors that make street youth leave shelters and return to the streets are: (1) relationships; (2) boredom; and, (3) loss of their sense of freedom and control; while the underlying factors that keep them in shelters are: (1) fulfillment of dreams; (2) determination; (3) welcoming and cordial environment; and (4) security and safety particularly in having their basic necessities met.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1584
A. Contreras
This paper critically analyzes the interplay of language, popular culture and identity in the context of the Filipino diaspora in Hawaii. This is done using the views of a selected sample of Filipino-American students enrolled in Filipino and Ilokano language classes at the University of Hawai’i during the Spring Semester of 2009; existing scholarships on the topic; and personal observation of the author. The analysis is done in the context of an “Ilokano” identity which is very much defined to a point that a significant number of Ilokanos see themselves in a position of difference, and not just a mere subset, of the larger “Filipino” identity. This view is now influenced and/or contested by the images which the youth at present encounter through language and culture classes; as well as from the globalization of culture, in which popular and local symbols in the homeland are beamed to them in real time, courtesy of TFC and Pinoy TV, as well as the internet. Furthermore, this is played amidst the backdrop of an academic setting in which the two language programs, i.e. Filipino and Ilokano, are both offered in the University of Hawai’i. The dynamics between these language programs, as well as the effects of globalized forms of new media, is analyzed for their significant impacts on how the Filipino nation is imagined from a distance even by those who have physically left the geographical boundaries of the Philippine archipelago, but who are still part of the larger global Filipino communities emerging from the diaspora.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1585
M. Hawkins
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/apssr.v10i1.1586
A. Villa
Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South . Edited by: Stephen Castles and Raul Delgado Wise. Published by: International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2008.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1583
P. Wong
One of the shortcomings of the postmodern and poststructuralist intellectual movements is the decentering of the subject, which privileges structuralist and semiotic analyses over human agency and historical changes. This essay aims to provide a remedial theoretical and person-centered interventional scheme which I call frontier governmentality . With respect to existing approaches of Philippine politics and Foucault’s relevant work on subjectivity, frontier governmentality refers to the uncertain state-self contact zone where the arts of governing the self, the others and the state meet. Through an ethnographic biography of Tuguegarao city mayor Delfin Ting, I will argue that the art of caring for the soul is the often neglected but deeper form of human agency which would enable a more comprehensive understanding of Philippine postcolonial state formation. Frontier governmentality calls attention to the soulful agency – the often spiritual working of searching, identifying and caring for the soul to discern one’s fate, as the underlying guide for the postcolonial art of government. In the light of one’s fate, the courage and freedom to renounce the earthly self and attached interests would be instructive for grooming political talents needed to build a stronger Philippine state.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1581
Kajari Roy, S. K. Halder
This study examines the inequality of income, poverty and socio-economic variables manifesting human deprivation across the sixteen major states in India at different points of time. There exists a positive trend of inequality in income and poverty (measured in terms of head-count ratio-HCR) across the states at seven points of time, but there is a sharp increase in inequality in poverty after 1993-94. Since HCR captures only one dimension of poverty viz. income, we measure other non-income dimensions of human deprivations and their inequalities at three points of time: 1980-81, 1990-91 and 2000-2001. The results show a common positive trend of inequality implying increasing regional imbalance over the decades. Keeping in mind the problem of weights and aggregation in estimating Human Poverty Index (HPI) popularized by UNDP, a new multidimensional measure of poverty is suggested. This new measure of poverty is found compatible with the head-count ratio and human poverty index estimated by Planning Commission, India. Cluster Analysis has been applied in a similar context of human deprivation on the major states of India that provides us two distinct clusters in three points of time: 1980-81, 1990-91 and 2000-2001. The results show that Kerala has been a distinctive state in India in all the three points of time.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1582
Tanmoyee Banerjee, Chandralekha Ghosh, Malabika Roy
The present study shows the impact of different borrower specific socio-economic, political and demographic characteristics on the probability that a loan will be taken from formal sources as well as on its size. We also study the impact of such factors on interlinked loan contracts. The study is based on a primary survey conducted in 24 Parganas (North), West Bengal, India. We observe that occupational categories, political identification, and economic status are the important determinants of loans taken from formal lending institutions. Another important observation is the existence of credit labour interlinkage in a tied loan market. Mostly poorer people have a higher probability of taking a tied loan.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1577
Cristela Goce-Dakila
{"title":"From the Editor: Vol.10(1)","authors":"Cristela Goce-Dakila","doi":"10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39323,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Social Science Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76644059","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}
Pub Date : 2010-06-30DOI: 10.3860/APSSR.V10I1.1579
D. Erasga
Sociological imagination is an open invitation to theorize via the stories we tell ourselves and others. The essay explores how literary narratives mediate social reality and in the process, become genuine and legitimate materials for sociological theorizing. To do so, the paper traces the epistemic affinity of sociology and literature, examines the issues endemic in the field of sociology of literature, and assesses their implications in the search for new directions in sociological theorizing. Using the auto/biographical genre, this essay (1) appraises how storytelling as a discursive art weaves different categories of narratives that describe different layers of experience; and, (2) argues that for theorizing purposes, this type of material should neither be read with purely dramatic nor documentary interests, but in terms of its interpretive affordances. Retelling the story of symbolic interactionism, the essay ends with a challenge to sociological theorizing that is receptive to and facilitative of possibilities for searching the social in the literary. Keywords: storytelling; social theory; sociology of literature; story of sociology DOI: 10.3860/apssr.v10i1.1579 Asia-Pacific Social Science Review 10:1 (2010), pp. 21-38
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