Location - Where I will be on May 17th,18th,19th, 26th and 27th?

17th - conference
18th - department or library
19th - department or library
26th - department
27th - department

Location - Where I will be on May 14th and 16th?

May 14th - Morning and afternoon - Social Science Department 

May 15th - Morning - Radio program 

May 16th - Morning - Department or Library 

Feed-backing : Naga Riverside walk - Thick description report

To read your work is very enjoyable. Especially the report you made was creative. I just leave general feed-back here for your report.

What I appreciated 
1) Creativity - Forms of report is quite unique. Therefore it was very enjoyable to read them.
I hesitated to write the comments directly to your report :)

2) Illustration - Illustration might tell more story sometime...but it needs some explanation.

3) In one report, mention local term to explain the Naga River.
As we discussed in the class, language shapes our thought. Therefore, once we try to discover the meaning of certain things, it is quite meaningful to trace the local term...

Points you can possibly improve:
1) Write more detail and meanings of people's action.

e.g. There are many garbage along the way. Most of them are plastic, packages of snacks and pet bottle. These garbage came from the houses along the riverside. I even saw some household throw the garbage bag into the Naga river.→Thin description.
For them, Naga river is symbol of religious devotion to Ina. In fact, the resident said how important Penafrancia fluvial procession is. However, their consciousness is totally cut from Naga river if it is not festivity. Therefore, it would be fair to say there are two meanings which the residents switch  one to another for their convenience.

2) Pre-research
Yes, you inserted them. I could see some report connected between article you found and your final report.

P.S. After I finish checking all of your examination paper, I will deliver letters you wrote to institutions, one for City Hall and another for Bicol Islamic Education Inc.

3) Remember value-free/verstehen by Weber
So, therefore, please avoid to use "should" and "must" in your anthropological/sociological report. To detach from your ideology, belief and thoughts is first step when you write scientific report.

INFORMATION - closure of faculty lounge -

As I informed several time, the faculty lounge will close, I think, until new school year.
Therefore, you may not be able to see me in the faculty lounge after May 14th.


I will update my schedule here in the website.

Please check this before you come to school to see me for consultation or submission.

And several students haven't submitted assignments(sociological research paper and Naga riverside walk report) yet.

Please submit as early as possible.
Today(May 13th) I am here in the lounge. Come and look for me :) 

INFORMATION

Good afternoon.

I miss you all already :(

I am checking your projects (sociological research paper and Thick description :) ) and your exam.
I am about to finish checking your project.
Please kindly claim your work in Humanity and Social Sciences faculty lounge tomorrow, May 13th :)

The general feedback will be posted on this website soon.

About your exam...please give me some more time :) 

Lecture note - Family

Functionalist: The family as a contributor to social stability.
Roles of family members

Conflict:The family as a perpetuator of inequality. Transmission of poverty or wealth across generations

Interactionist: Relationships among family members

Feminist: Family as a perpetuator of gender roles Female-headed households

Composition: One male and one female?
Monogamy
Polygamy
-Polygyny
-Polyandry

Composition: What Is the Family?
Nuclear Family
The nuclear family is the nucleus or core upon which larger family groups are built.
Extended Family
An extended family is a family in which relatives such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles live in the same home as parents and their children.

Kinship Patterns: To Whom Are We Related?
Kinship
Kinship is the state of being related to others.

Bilateral Descent
Both sides of a person’s family are regarded as equally important.

Patrilineal descent
In patrilineal descent, only the father’s relatives are important.

Matrilineal descent
In matrilineal descent, only the mother’s relatives are significant.


Authority Patterns: Who Rules?

Patriarchy
When males are expected to dominate in all family decision making, that society is a patriarchy.

Matriarchy
When women have greater authority than men, that society is a matriarchy.

Egalitarian family
A family in which spouses are regarded as equals.

Lecture note - culture

Anthropologist agreed with describing it rather than defining it.

Material culture: Tangible, you can see and touch e.g. house, food, car, traditional dress… 

Nonmaterial culture: Way of doing  things, thinking e.g. language, body language, custom …

Elements of culture

-Knowledge

-Value

-Language

-Gesture/Nonverbal Communication

-Norms

-Belief 

Sanctions: penalties and rewards for conduct　concerning a social norm.

Sanctions may be either positive or negative, Formal/non-formal.

Feature of culture are

Learned : Person will learn and obtain it

Shared : Group of people doing the same

Transmitted : One generation to another

Changing : it is not permanent! 

Cultural universal: 

Subculture: a segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs from the larger society.

A subculture is a culture existing within a larger, dominant culture.

E. g. Cosplay

Argot : specialized (languages) Idiomatic vocabularies which are 

shared among particular class or group of people 

A counterculture is types of subculture. It is created when a subculture conspicuously and deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.

Ethnocentrism: the assumption that one’s own culture represents the norm or is superior to all others.
Cultural relativism views people’s behaviors from the perspective of their own culture.

Xenocentrism: an extension of cultural relativism; it is the belief that the products, styles, or ideas of one’s society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.

Verstehen: The German for understanding or insight.

Max Weber stressed the need for sociologists to take into account people’s emotions, thoughts, beliefs and attitudes.