Situating

Contemporary
Issues in the JHS
Curriculum
As a Social Studies teacher, how
do you situate the Contemporary
Issues in our JHS Curriculum?

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 The
ability
to think
outside
the
box.

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C. Wright Mills

• Coined the famous phrase “Social Imagination”,

which is used throughout sociology today.
• The Sociological Imagination is the
concept of being able to
“think ourselves away” from the familiar
routines of our daily lives in order to
look at them anew.
• It is the ability to see things socially and how they interact
and influence each other.
• To have a Sociological Imagination, a person must be able to pull away
from the situation and think from an alternative point of view.
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Weird Phenomena That Perfectly Sum
Up Today’s Filipino Culture:

Every country in the world has its own range of social phenomena which makes
its culture unique; in the Philippines, it’s the same
as well.

With such a diverse demographic, it’s no wonder so many social phenomena

abound in the country and which give us our unique
Pinoy identity.

And as we are about to find, these social phenomena make the Philippines the
country as it is today—without them, Pinoy culture just wouldn’t feel the same
anymore.

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The “My Way Killings.”

While the Philippines is not the only karaoke-crazy nation on the

planet, only it can lay claim to a crime so bizarre it’s known internationally
as the “My Way Killings.” Specifically, singing Frank Sinatra’s timeless
classic has a higher chance of igniting a barroom brawl (and an early death)
than any other song.

The Aswang Phenomenon

As to why the myth of the aswang remains so prevalent even today, it now
has something more to do with a concept rather than an actual monster.

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The Pacquiao Phenomenon

A phenomenon with a no-brainer explanation, this happens every

time “Pambansang Kamao” Manny Pacquiao fights. Traffic is non-existent,
crime rates practically drop to near zero percent and Moro guerrillas tempo-
rarily lay down their arms – all just to watch Pacquiao’s fight.

The Filipino Ability To Smile During Disasters

If the Japanese are disciplined during disasters, then the Filipinos are
happy go-lucky. We have proven it so many times in the face of disasters, especially
with floods as the Philippines happens to be a typhoon magnet. Even though our
homes are flooded and our properties are destroyed, we will just smile away and laugh
(and make countless memes). By extension, we smile and laugh at our personal, social,
and economic troubles.
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The Istambay Phenomenon

Believe it or not, there really is such a thing as an “istambay phenomenon”

and is unfortunately prevalent among Filipino youth (especially males).
And contrary to popular belief, istambays are not neighborhood toughies too
lazy to get a job as we often like to stereotype them.
As concluded by sociologist Clarence Batan in his exhaustive research
into the phenomenon, the lack of socio-economic opportunities, the inability of
government to fully address social problems, and the close familial ties prevalent
in Filipino culture all contribute to the proliferation of istambays in the country.

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The Filipino Text Messaging Phenomenon

As the perennial “Texting Capital Of The World,” Filipinos have sent out
more than a billion text messages daily since 2008.
The phenomenon even gave rise to the sub-culture known as “Generation Txt”
whose adherents have developed their own unique language.
According to sociology professor Josephine Aguilar, the art of texting
provides Filipinos a convenient vehicle with which to express themselves things
that could not normally be said easily face-to face.

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The Filipino Social Media Phenomenon

Aside from being big fans of texting, Filipinos also love being online, so much
so that we have also earned the title of “Social Networking Capital of the World.”
Just like with texting, social media affords Filipinos a measure of privacy
they need to express themselves without being confrontational and allows family
members and friends to keep in touch despite the distance. Additionally,
social media resonates well with the Filipino concept of “kapwa and pakikisama”
since we are generally a very social people. It is also in line with the Filipino’s inclination
towards close family ties.
Situating the Contemporary Issues to the
JHS curriculum will be made meaningful
and much more clearer and interesting if
we will awaken our students Sociological
Imagination.
As Wright Mills said, Sociological
Imagination is the vivid awareness of the
relationship between experience and the
wider society.

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 Private Issues and Public Issues

There is a strong tendency in liberal democracies towards

seeing human behaviour in terms of individual
characteristics, abilities, choices and preferences.

We tend to experience whatever happens in our lives as unique and

private, and also interpret what happens to other people as unique and
private to them.
These are seen as “private troubles.”

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 Private Issues and Public Issues
Sociologist, on the other hand, are more interested in the
relationship between what happens to
Individuals in their lives and the large processes or social, economic
and political change that might be said to lie underneath or behind
those happenings.

The discipline of Sociology encourages you to look for the social

processes and structures that give a generalised pattern to those
private troubles and thus turn them into “public issues”.

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 Child Labor
Private Trouble Public Issue

If one child is working for the family When there are 2.1 million child laborers
because his parents were incapable of in the Philippines as of Jan 2011 census.
working.

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 Using your sociological imagination will help
you better understand why personal crises are
often rooted in social circumstances.

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 The Contemporary Issues, face by the Society today
doesn’t have to be taken as a Social Issue.
Looking at it using the Sociological Imagination of C. Right
Mills, the issues and concerns of the society may have rooted from
the private issues face by every individuals.
The Araling Panlipunan 10 topic will give students insights
of why they have to face this issues and how should they tackle it.
It is easy to relate what happens in the personal to what
happen in the public and even blame everything to others. But will it
not be only fair to let our students see this issues on the other side
of the view?

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To sum up:
Using the Social Imagination
Means………….
• Refusing to take any aspect of human life for granted.
• Making comparisons of the human experience across societies
and across time.
• Asking whether human experiences vary by the kind of person in
question – for instance, by race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion,
disability status, sexuality and political ideology
• Considering the possibility that social forces – institutions, norms,
demographics, policies, rituals, groups and interactions – might be
at least partial causes of these human experiences
• Always recognizing that humans are naturally social.
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