Doyongan, Charisse Aleli L.

Abinales, P. N., & Amoroso, D. J. (2017). State and Society in the Philippines. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers.

The book provided an outstanding historical account of Philippine state formation. A

detailed schedule which begins with contacts between the Philippines and China during
the Tang (618-906) dynasty and ends with the presidential results for 2004 is useful as a
guide for the reader. It encompasses the developments of the institutions of the
government and the roles of the Church, the political parties, the civil services, the trade
unions, the armed forces and other state organizations. The Filipinos' firm adherence to
family relations, which can be the dominance of the family dynasties in Philippine
politics; the relevance in political mobilization of ethnic regionalism based on the
provincial origins, dialects or language or even the trend of Fillipinos to see humus are
not sufficiently proven to influence the development of other societal factors. The
influence of the Philippines, such as fatalism, reciprocity, 'face' or 'debt of gratitude' on
state formation, is neglected. The book successfully summed up the idea of societal
formation in the context of social history however failed to recognize the societal factors
or forces of influences towards the state formation of the Philippines.

Bautista, M. (1998). Sociology and the Social Sciences in the Philippines: Developments and
Prospects. Philippine Sociological Review, 46(1/2), 66-75. Retrieved May 18, 2021, from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23898144
This paper addresses the future of sociology, specifically anthropology, economy,
political science and psychology in the context of the developments of the social sciences
in the Philippines. This is to recognize the social sciences' commonalities and
divergences in the country will increase our awareness about our discipline and its
prospect in the 21st century. The emergence of social science in the Philippines dated
back to American era, however the establishment of academic institutions in line with the
different disciplines occurred in different timelines. The paper primarily focuses on the
establishment of different academic disciplines and how it affected the academic structure
 of the Philippines. Future sociologists will be at the forefront of research on critical
political economic issues in a rapidly globalizing environment given the way sociology
has evolved with other fields of social scientist research over the last four decades in the
context of Philippine history.

Larkin, J. A. (1966). THE EVOLUTION OF PAMPANGAN SOCIETY: A Case Study of Social

and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines.

The dissertation examines the people of Pampanga that live beyond Manila's immediate
influence and have their own separate historical development. The economic and social
changes in the province ultimately rely more on its people's needs, their desires and their
temperament than on external authorities. Pampanga caused social unrest in the 20th
century and became a very attractive subject for historical research in its social and
economic background. Thus, the paper concluded the emphasis entirely on social change
in the province when events are mentioned outside and only if they directly affect internal
change. The focus of the study was on the gradual evolution of institutions as they adapt
to changing conditions, particularly problems of anthropology and sociology.

Van den Muijzenberg, O. (2003). A Short History of Social Connections between the Philippines
and the Netherlands. Philippine Studies, 51(3), 339-374. Retrieved May 20, 2021, from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/42633660

The paper focuses on the 17th century social relations that began, in the form of a
fifty-year conflict between the Philippines and the Netherlands. Cooperation connections
were established in the 20th century alone. This article presents the background of a
variety of activities in the Philippines of Dutch people and in the Netherlands of the
Philippines beginning at the end of the 19th century. People in the Philippines have come
to work in the last thirty years to study, marry, or reunite in the Netherlands with a family
member, with many residing there. Hundreds of Dutch, mainly as residents, arrived in the
Philippines at the same time. The Netherlands has become an important economic partner
for the Philippines. It was first used in the traditional and more recently in the
non-traditional product sectors as a major destination for Philippine export. In
 conclusion, the paper emphasizes the social relationship of the countries and its
development towards economic and social aspects.

McCoy, A W (1984). Survey 1: Social History of the Philippine Archipelago - Problems of Time
and Space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2(1), 107–112.
doi:10.1068/d020107

The study emphasizes on the social history of the Philippines that began as local or
provincial in the early 1970s. Opened to researchers in the late 1960s, the archival
records thus forced scientists to study the province and then discovered a spatial element
that had been ignored in the search for a national culture and history. Provincials and
local studies proliferated suddenly, and in 10 years, every major region of the Philippines
was the object of one or more detailed social stories. However, the article’s objective
doesn’t only revolve around the social history but also its economic boundaries. In
summary, the way the Philippine social history is being built on these promising
foundations is not clear from the work in progress. The future course is by far unclear and
the field can fragment into incoherence. Whether the interaction between space, society,
and history, which in the initial studies is so important yet unclear in so many ways.