Filipinization

of Social
Science
Learning Objective:
Evaluate the roles and
significance of Filipinos’
indigenous social ideas to
national development
Filipino Social Science
Why do we need to have a
Filipino social science – an
Agham Panlipunang Pilipino?
Why do we need to make the
systematic study of society
more attuned to the Filipino?
 Filipino Social Science
The struggle for a Filipino-led
academic social science is about
believing in the idea that the Filipino
has something to offer to global
study of society.
Philippine Social Science or
Indigenized Social Science
Indigenization is a process in
which there is a purposive and
conscious effort to translate and
interpret foreign academic
concepts, canons and methods.
Philippine Social Science or
Indigenized Social Science
The word “indigenization” refers to a
process, in fact, a tedious and long
process, of acceptance and
understanding, in which those foreign
concepts and idea are made
relevant to a specific group of people
whose culture and history differ very
much from the originators of the said
“imported” ideas.
Three Strands of Agham Panlipunang
Pilipino ( Filipino Social Science)
• Pantayong Pananaw/Bagong Kasaysayan by
Zeus Salazar (History)
• Pilipinolohiya by Prospero Covar (Anthropology)
• Sikolohiyang Pilipino by Virgilio Enriquez
(Psychology)
 Pantayong Pananaw
It posits that history is
not only about recording
of events, much like the
tradition of
historia/histoire/history
of the West but also
Zeus Salazar about finding meaning
(Historian-Ethnologist) in past events.
Salazar went on to propose a
new timeline or periodization
of Philippine history, which he
calls Bagong Kasaysayan (or
new history) based on the
internal logic of historical
events and not on the
traditional and colonial
parameters of periodization
such as the coming of the
colonizers in successive
periods.
 Pilipinolohiya
(Philippine Studies)
It states that the
Philippines and the
Filipinos must be studied
and investigated using
methodologies and
conceptual tools drawn Prospero Covar
from Filipino culture, (Anthropologist)
society, and experience.
Pilipinolohiya maintains that
we should have our own
purpose, set our own
intellectual course, and steer
our own ideology in the
service of the Filipino and for
the betterment of our society.
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
The scientific study
derived from the
experience, ideas, and
cultural orientation of
Virgilio Enriquez the Filipinos (Yacat 2013).
(Psychologist)
Sikolohiyang Pilipino or
Indigenous Filipino
Psychology is also known as
Kapwa Psychology. Kapwa
Psychology draws from folk
practices as much as from
modern theory.
It includes in its study the IKSP of
healing from the Babaylan and
Albolaryos (native shamans and
healers) as well as the religio-
political approaches of the Filipino
mystics and folk heroes and other
ancestral ways of knowing. Kapwa
psychology implies a call for social
action. Scholars and students are
encouraged to go to the villages to
learn from the people and in turn,
serve them with the gain knowledge.
 Accommodative Values (Colonial):
Hiya (propriety/dignity)
Utang na loob (gratitude/solidarity)
Pakikisama (esteem/companionship)

Core Value: Linking socio-personal value:

Pivotal interpersonal value:
KAPWA Kagandahang loob
Pakikiramdam
(shared identity) (shared humanity)
(shared inner perception)

Confrontative values (surface):

Bahala na (determination)
Lakas ng loob (guts/courage)
Pakikibaka (resistance)
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
Core Value or Kapwa (Togetherness)
• shows how the Filipino psyche is community-
oriented.
• Ibang tao (outsider) and hindi ibang tao (insider/one
of us)
• Pakikibagay (act of conformity)
• Pakikipagkaisa (being one with others)
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
Pivotal Interpersonal Value
• Pakikiramdam (shared inner perception)
• Filipinos use their inner perception of the other’s
emotion in order to efficiently interact with them.
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
Linking Sociopersonal Value
• Pakikipagkapwa/kagandahang loob (shared
humanity)
• This value allows for acts of charity towards others,
based on the ideal that we belong to the same
community.
• Bayanihan or community based action
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
Accommodative surface Values
• Hiya (propriety/dignity)
• Utang na loob (debt of gratitude)
• Pakikisama (esteem /companionship)
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
Confrontative surface Values
These values are exhibited by Filipinos when confronted
by adversity.
• Bahala na (determination)
• Lakas ng loob (guts/courage)
• Pakikibaka (resistance)
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino
(Filipino Psychology)
Societal Values (Pagpapahalagang panlipunan)
• Karangalan (Honor)
• Katarungan (Justice)
• Kalayaan (Freedom)