Randy David

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Randolf David

Nationality:	Filipino
Field/s of Study:	general sociology, political sociology and development sociology

Randolf David, better known as Randy David, is a Filipino journalist, sociologist and TV personality.

1 Career
2 Accomplishments
3 List of publications
4 Conferences attended
5 Awards and recognitions
6 External links
7 References
8 See Also
9 Citation

[edit] Career

He is currently a professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of the Philippines. He has been part of the UP Faculty since 1967. He teaches courses on general sociology, political sociology and development sociology. He was a member of the UP Board of Regents who represented the faculty in 1999. His column, “Public Lives,” has appeared every Sunday in the ‘’Philippine Daily Inquirer’’ from 1995 up to the present. He holds a degree in sociology from the University of the Philippines and is director of the Third World Studies Center (TWSC) and the editor of ‘’KASARINLAN."

During the Martial Law era under Ferdinand Marcos, he chose to remain in the country rather than pursue his doctoral studies at the University of Manchester.

Over eleven years he has made himself a household name, hosting the popular multi-awarded public affairs program “Public Forum” on GMA7. It tackles issues about government and policy, the economy, business, and non-governmental organizations. He promoted the use of Filipino as a medium of serious political and social discourse, since his was the only public affairs show in Filipino at the time. The Cultural Center of the Philippines even chose it as one of the ten outstanding television programs. He was also a newscaster and hosted “Public Life with Randy David” and “Off the Record” with Katrina Legarda.

[edit] Accomplishments

David was named one of the UP Centennial Fellows for his valuable contributions to Philippine sociology and social awareness. He was a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1996, lecturing on Philippine development and democracy. In 1990, he was also a Visiting Professor at the Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan where he lectured and conducted research about Filipino migrant workers. He has also been appointed by the United Nations University in Tokyo as the Southeast Asian Coordinator on its Asian Perspectives Program, where he organized a network of young scholars from the ASEAN countries to undertake joint research and to offer alternative views on the region’s development experience.

He has authored several books including ‘’Reflections on Sociology and Philippine Society”, published in 2001, and ‘’Nation, Self, and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology," published in 2002, that won the National Book Award in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Most of his writings featured a broad range of topics including the cabo system on the Manila waterfront, the social roots of Philippine poverty, the role of transnational corporations in the banana industry, language and consciousness, culture and development, Filipino workers in Japan, political parties and the financing of electoral campaigns.

[edit] List of publications

‘’Reflections on Sociology and Philippine Society”. (University of the Philippines Press, 2001)
‘’Nation, Self, and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology”. (University of the Philippines Dept. of Sociology, 2002)
”Leadership and the Experimentalist Imagination”, paper presented at the SEACA Leaders Forum
”Public Forum on the UP Presidency”. June 1999

[edit] Conferences attended

Speaker, Philippine International Migration: Issues and Concerns of Filipino Migrants in the Netherlands. Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the Netherlands, 24 November 1997
Speaker, “Modernity and the UP: The First 100 Years”. University of the Philippines, Baguio, 29 August 2008