Jose Rizal and the Birth of the Social Sciences in the Philippines

• Main Author: Mojares, Resil B.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Jose Rizal; Filipino scholarship; disciplinary histories; social sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol16/iss2/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1022/viewcontent/Budhi_2016.2_202_20Article_20__20MOJARES.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The paper narrates jose Rizal’s sojourn in Berlin in 1887 as a defining moment in the emergence of the social sciences as a Filipino discipline. it situates this moment in a much wider history, in which such factors as the expansion of the economy, civil bureaucracy, education, and nationalism gave...