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Formative Assessment: Metacognitive Activity PILS Sociological Imagination

The document summarizes key ideas and concepts learned from listening to a PILS Sociological Imagination lecture by Dr. Batan. 1. Some new ideas learned were unlocking sociological imagination to understand Filipino youth and looking beyond individual problems to see broader social forces at play. 2. An interesting idea was viewing Filipino youth today like a kaleidoscope - diverse with different perspectives rather than judging based on expectations. 3. A familiar concept was that things are not always as they seem and suspending prejudices to see issues more clearly. 4. An initially difficult to understand concept was sociological imagination as grasping history and biography and how individual issues intersect with broader social and historical

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Formative Assessment: Metacognitive Activity PILS Sociological Imagination

The document summarizes key ideas and concepts learned from listening to a PILS Sociological Imagination lecture by Dr. Batan. 1. Some new ideas learned were unlocking sociological imagination to understand Filipino youth and looking beyond individual problems to see broader social forces at play. 2. An interesting idea was viewing Filipino youth today like a kaleidoscope - diverse with different perspectives rather than judging based on expectations. 3. A familiar concept was that things are not always as they seem and suspending prejudices to see issues more clearly. 4. An initially difficult to understand concept was sociological imagination as grasping history and biography and how individual issues intersect with broader social and historical

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Camille Anne D.

Adriano Sir John Allenber Genese

2020024451 October 10, 2020

Formative Assessment: Metacognitive Activity

PILS Sociological Imagination

1. What are the NEW ideas I learned from this topic?

In listening to Dr. Batan’s PILS, I have discovered new exceptional ideas such as unlocking
some sense of Sociological Imagination to understand the Filipino youth. As explained by Dr.
Batan, “Social Imagination is an invitation to everyone that when you start to think about young
people, we use some kind of Sociological Imagination.” Meaning, if we know how to look at
things, we have to discover and practice how to look beyond things. But the thing is that it asks
the questions amongst us, such as our psychological issues and problems. We tend to think that
the problem that we are experiencing is just our own problems, but there really are existing
social forces present that have a lot to do with the problem itself. This presents the fact that we
lack some kind of Sociological Imagination that makes us see beyond ourselves. We should
remember that it has something to do with the fact that the world we are into is enmeshed with
responsibility because you want to help with the different aspects of our lives, whether it be on
our families, our surroundings, and especially, ourselves.

2. What are the INTERESTING ideas I learned from this topic?

A concept from Dr. Batan’s PILS that interests me the most is the idea of how is it to be a
children of youth in the contemporary Philippines. He flashed a picture on the screen, which
depicts a kaleidoscope. Therefore, he views the Filipino youth in the modern Philippines as
diverse and broad, just like a kaleidoscope. Children of youth in the contemporary Philippines
tend to have different perspectives. When one is beyond other people’s expectations, there is
always a big problem. People usually have one way of looking at a particular thing; thus, for the
Filipino youth to be understood, Dr. Batan encourages to look at young people and their growing
process like a kaleidoscope. Our problem is that we think our country is the same as other
developing countries, but that is not the case. To use their standard to young people and to us is
extremely problematic. As a result, representations of the youth are abused in many other ways,
and it does not depict what a Filipino youth is. That is why we should understand our social
world by deciding to have a wider perspective. Things are not what they seem, and we should
remember that the way to look at the world should be done with some sense of Sociological
Imagination.

3. What are the FAMILIAR ideas in this topic?

In listening and watching the PILS of Dr. Batan, I have been very familiar with what he had
said about the first wisdom of sociology, “Things are not what they seem.” Growing up, I have
observed that people tend to judge even if people do not actually know the person they have
prejudices and judgments with. As a Filipino youth, one example would be our Filipino relatives'
prejudices in terms of education. When one does not choose a “practical” career or would not
generate more money, they tend to judge and think that us Filipino youth will not be able to have
a bright future. Typical jobs they want the youth to have would be becoming lawyers, doctors,
etc. Having prejudices that are not essential would only lead to conflicts. The first wisdom of
sociology suggests that, as Dr. Batan had said, “We have to suspend our prejudices in order for
us to be able to see a particular phenomenon clearly.” When we talk about young people, this is
the first thing that we have to do. We have to stop thinking about things that we know currently,
and we should look at the bigger picture for us to see clearly.

4. What are the DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND IDEAS/CONCEPTS in this topic?

At first, it was honestly hard for me to understand the concept of Sociological Imagination,
particularly the explanation of Dr. Batan about this concept as “A quality of mind that enables
one to grasp history and biography.” When I heard this, I had difficulty understanding it because
I have no background about the idea and it was also new to me. When I continued listening to
Dr. Batan’s PILS, I have discovered that one should understand that when we look into your
respective problems, certain historical forces shape it; and it interacts with our individual
biography. Sociological Imagination is the capacity of the person to look at the connection of
both historical and biographical aspects in order for an individual to fully understand what life is
all about. One way to understand young people as mentioned by Dr. Batan is to understand it
from what we call the "Life Course Perspective.” This expounds the idea that we have to realize
that we cannot understand being young if we do not have a reference of being a child and our
expectations of the future.

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