The Social Sciences in the Philippines: Reflections on Trends and Developments Maria Cynthia Rose Banzon Bautista
This is a Hand-out on one of our discussions. Reporter: Jerone Avel S. Cansino MAED Soc Sci The Paper is about: u Preliminary thoughts on the development of the social sciences in the Philippines from the American colonial period to 1990’s. u How the study of social science grew from an unknown discipline to an institutionalized one. American Colonial period to the 1960s u Pioneer thinkers: u Pigafetta, Loarca, Plasencia, Chirino (Anthropology) - Abaya u Marcelo H. del Pilar, Jose Rizal (Political Science)- Agpalo u Gregorio Sanciano y Joson (Economics)- De Dios u Teachings of Social Philosophy, Social Ethics and Penology in UST at the end of the century - Abad and Eviota u Although there are related thinkers, the Social Science is still not considered an Academic discipline with theoretical and methodological perspectives before the 1900s. u “The Philippine Social Sciences emerged as specialized disciplines with the esta