Rowena V. Mende Abstract The present study explored the phenomenon of women choosing younger men—seemingly a violation of evolved mate preferences of males preferring young mates and females preferring resource-laden mates who are usually older. The study explored this issue through two perspectives: evolved preferences and social learn-ing. Study 1 investigated the possibility that couples where the female is older may have been conforming to...

Rogelio Alicor L. Panao and Ronald A. Pernia Abstract This paper examines speechmaking on a contentious policy by arguably one of the most controversial figures to have assumed the Philippine presidency. Drawing on quantitative textual approaches on a corpus of 845 presidential speeches delivered between June 2016 and July 2020, we provide evidence that Rodrigo Duterte’s evocative utterances against drug lords and criminals are not just...

Phoebe Zoe Maria Sanchez Link to the Article https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Public-Sociology/Hossfeld-Kelly-Hossfeld/p/book/9780367518837

Author   Francis Michael C. AbadCollege of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu To address the problem of overwhelming cases pending before the judiciary, mediation has been sought as a means to settle disputes speedily and amicably. This article argues that much of the success or failure of a mediator to reach a settlement among litigants is owed to the role of lawyers who assist the parties in mediation conferences....

The Philippine case Phoebe Zoe Maria Sanchez ABSTRACT A major question asked in this chapter is this: ‘how do Filipino sociologists engage in public sociology in the Philippines?’ Hence, the chapter deals with lived experiences in public sociology. First, the study accounts on the context of Philippine society as situated in a perpetual state of authoritarianism via narratives of human rights violations in Cebu, Central Visayas, the...

Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento & Piyapong Boossabong ABSTRACT Strengthened by rigorous developments in foundational principles and methods, the technocratic-vs-deliberative debate has long lapsed in policy analysis discourse. We attempt to remedy this debate by illustrating the case of Fah Ham smart city planning in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We argue that the assimilation of both technocratic and deliberative modes is feasible in policy...