Hello, welcome to the special edition of Greg’s InsighTalk. This video will bring you an insight into celebrating a personal milestone in a more meaningful way. We celebrate our personal milestones in various ways that will bring us happiness and great memories. Others just let it pass as an ordinary day for some reason. But … Continue reading Celebrating a Personal Milestone: A Special Edition
Welcome to my lecture about realizing today’s family system. This lecture is the first part of our discussion on major social institutions. Let us start by thinking about our families. Then, let us reflect on families in today’s contemporary times. Now, you might agree with me that there is no perfect or faultless family. However, … Continue reading The Major Social Institutions (Part1): Realizing Today’s Family
Introduction Globalization is a societal process of ongoing interconnected economic, cultural, social, and political changes. This globalization project mobilizes people of different backgrounds or demographics across national borders by transferring goods and services, technology and information, skills and knowledge, and the flow of investments. In addition, it allows cultural fusion from various regions of the … Continue reading Non-Recognition of Credentials: A Barrier to the Successful Economic Integration of Canadian Immigrants
Introduction Society’s progression processes continue to change along with risks in a gradual to swift manner over time. Discussions and debates about modernity primarily focus on the effects and changes in social structures, mainly the economy, government, and education, specifically science and technology. Such modernization changes people’s way of life, creating new cultures. To the … Continue reading The Risk Family: A Disturbing Cost of Post-Modernity
Introduction An adult acquiring higher education is exceptionally challenging because typical university students are in their early twenties. There are various reasons individuals ceased to attend schooling and become mature-age learners in later life. Because higher education is an expensive human capital investment, many could not afford to enter university right away. However, one of … Continue reading Mature-age Students: Their Motivations and Challenges in Pursuing Higher Education
The media is a powerful tool to feed information and awareness of any social issues in our modern time. It has a multi-platform mechanism to reach every corner of the world with significant social impact. However, with the proliferation of online media in diverse modern forms, such as social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, … Continue reading An Analysis of Anti-Asian Racism on Media Outputs
When we talk about the Negro or Black people, a stigma is always attached to it. It has been centuries that Negro stereotyping or systemic racism is an ongoing social issue in the Western world, specifically in North America. Until now, many White people do not fully understand the plight of people of colour. … Continue reading Systemic Racism: The Problem of the Color Line
The story of the Good Samaritan and the life of St. Teresa of Calcutta, known as Mother Teresa and the Living Saint during her time in this world, inspire me about giving, love and compassion. Today, in all aspects of human existence, it would be good to reflect on her words: “Love cannot remain by … Continue reading A Seed of Compassion
When you are living and working abroad, for most Filipinos, you are affluent. A common mindset which do not consider the underlying factors to validate such assertion. In spite of countless documentaries regarding migrants’ plight and glory, news, social media posts and the likes, it is an unalterable viewpoint of our compatriots that overseas migrants … Continue reading The Two Sides of the Buck
CLICK the hyperlink below to view and read the conference paper. SWSD2014 Conference Paper (Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia) CLICK download for the power point presentation of the conference paper (swsd.ppt-australia)Download During the paper presentation with Emely D. Dicolen, PhD. CLICK download for the conference paper in (PDF file) portable document format (swsd2014-conference-paper)Download
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