SOCSCI 14 Module 1

How does Diokno define citizenship?

“the processes by which citizens negotiate the nature and extent of their rights as individuals and their obligations to the community”

In the reading, this was how citizens identified citizenship Vs a legalist definition

How does March and Olsen define citizenship?

• “An identity defined by a bundle of rights and duties and by an awareness of others in a similar position.”

This is the definition matched by Diokno

How does Bernas define citizenship?

“capacity to enjoy political rights

[...] the right to participate in government principally

through the right to vote, the right to hold public office,

and the right to petition the government for redress of

grievances

”the duty of allegiance to the political community”

(Bernas, 2009: 629)

What were the other types of identity mentioned in the diokno article as competing with the state?

family, ethnicity, religion, social class all

compete with identity with the state

Encapsulate, what does it mean for citizenship to be a two way street?

Government’s responsibility to exercise rule of

law and hold itself accountable (good

governance) and ”ensure that social requisites

for the practice of democracy are present: a

decent standard of living, employment,

education, health, and other services, and

access to opportunity and a better life” (Diokno,

1997:21)

Basically: A real “citizenship” requires the state to make good on its promises of economic growth, with citizens also participating in the process of making that happen.

What does it mean for citizenship to be effective?

Leadership not just as individual excellence & capacity, but also reinvention given new realities » This needs to be the work of citizens basically

“The work of citizens is to reclaim politics and

make it the public work of citizens”

What is the “Clear Moral identity” that according to David, the young must possess. What is this identity’s relationship to Rizal?

“Who we are, where we came from, and what we shall try to be” an attempt to continually reinvent the country based on the moral pillars of who we are and where we came from

This is why Rizal wrote, because he wanted to be clear that the Filipino was in control of their destiny

What is David’s "two main goals vis a vis the moral identity we should created — what is the tie this has to effective citizenship

• 1) Economic + national freedom

  • This is framed as “national freedom and material progress” because cronyism and economic growth are two crossing issues

• 2) Individual emancipation

  • We create institutions that allow citizens to “break free” from inherited circumstances → THese are “Social class, race and ethnicity, gender, etc.”

Does the David reading call for the young to be shackled to the past?

No, just take it as a reference point