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2020, Rethinking Filipino Millennials: Alternative Perspectives on a Misunderstood Generation
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the state of Filipino millennials. It adopts a critical perspective that challenges the general discourse about them. That the discourse is imported from Western writings and reinforced by the local advertising industry needs to be called into question. In my view, these writings still echo the functionalist take in Filipino youth studies that treats them as a problem that must be corrected. In the latter half, I will discuss the fragmentations among Filipino millennials brought about by inequality. It is important to recognize these fragmentations to demonstrate that the stereotypes that both celebrate and problematize them are inadequate. At the same time, recognizing the vulnerabilities of these youths is crucial in understanding the different responses they have towards various social issues. Cornelio, Jayeel. 2020. "The State of Filipino Millennials: An Alternative View." In Rethinking Filipino Millennials: Alternative Perspectives on a Misunderstood Generation, edited by Jayeel Cornelio. Manila: UST Publishing House.
Philippine Sociological Review, 2021
Review of Rethinking Filipino Millennials: Alternative Perspectives on a Misunderstood Generation, edited by Jayeel S. Cornelio. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2020.
2019
Meet the Filipino Generation Z (Gen Z-ers): the latest addition to the Philippine workforce, and what now accounts for about 20% of the country's current population. They are also known as the digital natives those that have been born and reared towards the beginning of the 21st century where rapid technological advancements took place. This study aims to fill the gap in the literature to better understand the Filipino Generation Z and how their values, norms, and ideologies shape the country's businesses, and everyday conversations using survey method and analyzed through descriptive statistics.
Philippine Social Sciences Review, 2009
2017
The purpose of the study is to identify the views of the Filipino Millennials at the workplace as they seem to be very distinct from the previous generations of workers. The research used a short interview method (pagtatanong-tanong) to Human Resource Professionals, Millennials, and Non- Millennial workers regarding their views about millennials at the workplace in general. From the responses, the researcher created a questionnaire following the Portrait Values Questionnaire format, and administered it together with the Lyon’s Work Values Survey to test validity of the new questionnaire. Results show that millennials place greatest importance to company initiated programs that engage millennials towards the organization’s goals. Also, it is found out that millennials focus on both extrinsic and intrinsic rewards, more than social and prestige factors. Recommendations for further research include: more sample size, more questions for each domain, and include socio-economic status as another variable.
Reformare, 2011
Despite its immediate relevance to understanding contemporary students, the study of generations has not been fully employed in education research. Setting a potential agenda for Reformare, this article proposes that a novel approach to advancing education research is by drawing from the insights of the sociology of generations. Specifically, the agenda being put forward is about discerning generational consciousness or how young people today perceive and understand their cohort. Such consciousness can then be employed to problematize and assess contemporary issues of education. This proposition is illustrated using empirical material drawn from interviews with Filipino undergraduate students. From their nuances concerning family restructuring, economic vulnerability, and political detachment, a case can be made that my informants belong to an isolated generation. Based on these ideas, the article ends with directions for potential investigation by education researchers and practitioners.
Rethinking Filipino Millennials: Alternative Perspectives on a Misunderstood Generation, 2020
Are millennials apathetic? This accusation is common about Filipino millennials. But in this chapter, I provide a different way of approaching the seeming political apathy among them. Building on Mannheim’s (1952) sociological theory on generations, I argue that the politics of the youth of today is expectedly different from the previous generations’ because of differing social, economic, and political moments that may have shaped their political dispositions. To measure millennials against standards of political participation derived from the experiences of previous generations is unproductive. Following Cornelio (2016), I argue further that a general condition of social isolation that characterizes contemporary Philippine society continues to form the unique modes of political participation among young Filipinos. This chapter draws from my reflections on my experiences as a youth activist for almost a decade and our research on the political dispositions of contemporary youth as well as from studies on political participation, civic engagement, and the political motivations of Filipino youths. This chapter is divided into two sections. In the first section, I trace the social conditions and the consequent forms of political participation of the previous generations. As the approach is macro-historical, spectacular moments of participation were deliberately chosen to reflect a generation’s politics (instead of the everyday and the particular). The generational lens adopted here may have also uncritically homogenized generations. But this is far from the aim of this chapter. Some political moments discussed may have only mobilized or involved certain segments of the population. But they nonetheless occupy a valuable place in the political imagination of one’s generation. Whether the radical university students that led the anti-dictatorship struggle or the rural youth who joined the anti-Japanese guerrilla units, these particular youth populations that involved themselves in defining political moments may be argued to represent a generation’s politics because of its long-term impact and symbolic value. The second section accounts for the shared social tragedies or experiences that continue to shape the specific kind of politics of Filipino millennials. Economic vulnerability, transnationalizing family, and political detachment are significant experiences that affect this generation. In turn, they significantly influence their evolving preference for a personalized and amorphous kind of political involvement.
Paper presented in the Philippine Communication Society Conference with the theme "Children, Youth and Media"December 5, 2014 at the Philippine Information Agency
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