random points

• trite = palasak
• spinning wheel = India's symbol for economic self-sufficiency
• commitment of oneself = pagtataya ng sarili
• simbahan = sambayanan ng sumasampalataya
• Republic of Korea = South Korea (SoKor)
  
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea (NoKor)
• DMZ = demilitarized zones
• thought process = includes expectation, attitude,
  feeling, perception and interpretation (Source: Susan Cave)
• learned helplessness = belief that the situation
  is beyond ones control and that one has no
  means to influence what will happen to him/her
• dysfunctional institution =
  dysfunctional governance + patronage politics
  (Source: Randy David)
• SO = significant others
• GO = generalized others
• sociological imagination =
  biography + history, and their interplay (C.Wright Mills)
• social statics = pertains to social order (Auguste Comte)
  
• social dynamics = pertains to social change (Auguste Comte)
• twin tasks after WW II =
  nation-building & economic growth (Wilfredo Carada)