Social Well-Being, Development, and Multiple Modernities in Asia
Author: Jaeyeol Yee
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9819738660
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Reflections on Multiple Modernities
Author: Dominic Sachsenmaier
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789004127975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMultiple Modernities is a departure from the "classic" sociological homogenization theories. The edition presents an interdisciplinary discussion of the topic in sociological, historical and economic dimensions. It explores culturally specific forms of modernity with a focus on China and Europe.
Social Well-Being, Development, and Multiple Modernities in Asia
Author: Jaeyeol Yee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2024-10-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789819738656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceived by the people, and how it is exploited by the state. It provides a genuine multicultural and multidimensional understanding of social well-being in an Asian context by showing the strength of comparative analysis. The idiosyncrasy of an individual society is reinterpreted through the universality of harmonized data analysis and imaginative discussion of the findings. The book offers the reader a deep understanding of how social well-being is framed in eight Asian countries, how it is contextualized in each society, and how it is correlated with the concept of development and sustainability. Articulated by carefully chosen examples, historical background, and interpretation of the latest data analysis, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek to understand the relationship among the well-being of individuals, national development, and global sustainability.
Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture
Author: Sun Sun Lim
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1317552636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Asia, amidst its varied levels of economic development and diverse cultural traditions and political regimes, the Internet and mobile communications are increasingly used in every aspect of life. Yet the analytical frames used to understand the impact of digital media on Asia predominantly originate from the Global North, neither rooted in Asia’s rich philosophical traditions, nor reflective of the sociocultural practices of this dynamic region. This volume examines digital phenomena and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives. Contributors apply a variety of Asian theoretical frameworks including guanxi, face, qing, dharma and karma. With chapters focusing on emerging digital trends in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan, the book presents compelling and diverse research on identity and selfhood, spirituality, social networking, corporate image, and national identity as shaped by and articulated through digital communication platforms.
The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies
Author: Doris Bühler-Niederberger
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2023-09-29
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 180382283X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revising established research, this handbook equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global and public and private contexts in the development of young people in Asian countries.
Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy
Author: Christian Aspalter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-07
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1000294234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces readers to the world of ideal types within the readings of Max Weber by giving a theoretical understanding of ideal types, as well as applying the development of ideal types to an array of social policy arenas. The twenty-first century has seen the development of welfare regime analysis marked by two differing strands: real-typical welfare regime analyses and ideal-typical welfare regime analysis; the latter focusing on the formation, development and application of ideal types in general comparative social policy. Designed to provide new theoretical and practical frameworks, as well as updated in-depth developments of ideal-typical welfare regime theory, this book shows how Weber’s method of setting up and checking against ‘ideal types’ can be used in a wide variety of policy areas such as welfare state system comparison, comparative social and economic development, health policy, mental health policy, health care system analysis, gender policy, employment policy, education policy and so forth. The book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in the fields of social policy including health policy, public policy, political economy, sociology, social work, gender studies, social anthropology, and many more.
Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development
Author: Kim Kyong-Dong
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-05-08
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9811034672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world.
Delimiting Modernities
Author: Sven Trakulhun
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0739199498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt’s “multiple modernities” which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different disciplines and regional settings, but who also engage with their research topics in a variety of approaches and at different levels of analysis. The volume thus transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.
New Life Courses, Social Risks and Social Policy in East Asia
Author: Raymond K. H. Chan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1317679814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many problems resulting from very much longer human life expectancy. Whereas once social policy had to be in step with a standardised, relatively stable and predictable life course, it now has to cope with non-standardised individual preferences, life courses and families, and the consequent increased risks and uncertainties. This book examines these new life courses and their impact on social policy across a range of East Asian societies. It shows how governments and social welfare institutions have been slow to respond to the new challenges. In response, we propose a life-course sensitised policy as an approach to manage these risks. Overall, the book provides many new insights which will assist advance social policy in East Asia.
Building a World Community
Author: Jacques Baudot
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2015-09-14
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0295998814
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