What Holds Asian Societies Together

Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783867937726

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What Holds Asian Societies Together? by Bertelsmann Stiftung Pdf

Social cohesion has become an important public goal in many countries across the globe, not only in the Western hemisphere, but also in Asia. Despite the growing political and academic interest in the concept, there is no generally accepted definition of social cohesion. As a result, empirical insights are lacking. Against this backdrop, the Bertelsmann Stiftung has initiated the "Social Cohesion Radar" which now, for the first time, presents empirical findings on South, Southeast and East Asia. The study provides an analysis and review of social cohesion in 22 Asian countries in a comparative perspective. It presents a valid and reliable measurement of current and past levels of social cohesion and explores its most important determinants and outcomes. As an extension of the Social Cohesion Radar series the study will be of interest and value to policy makers, academics, think tanks and civil society organizations.

Author : Stiftung, Bertelsmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 3867937710

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What Holds Asian Societies Together? by Stiftung, Bertelsmann Pdf

Author : Aurel Croissant,Peter Walkenhorst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000752137

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Social Cohesion in Asia by Aurel Croissant,Peter Walkenhorst Pdf

This book explores the historical origins, contemporary dynamics and future challenges of social cohesion in South, Southeast and East Asia—one of the most dynamic and at the same time heterogeneous regions in the world, in terms of economic, political and human development. The comparative case studies in this volume develop a better understanding of social cohesion in Asia by exploring how social cohesion is understood, analyzed and sometimes politically instrumentalised. Examining different dimensions and qualities of social cohesion and how they are linked together, it also discusses the challenges of social cohesion in individual societies. The case studies include examples from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea and Mainland China and building on the conceptual work and empirical findings of the Asian Social Cohesion Radar, this book provides detailed cross-country analyses over the past 15 years. Combining rigorous conceptual and theoretical reasoning with a systematic empirical analysis of trends across the region, Social Cohesion in Asia will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations, political sociology, comparative politics and Democratization Studies.

Author : Merviö, Mika Markus
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466650329

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Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres by Merviö, Mika Markus Pdf

While the balance between private and public sectors are based primarily on the experiences of the wealthy societies in Western Europe and North America, the global reach and increased political weight of East Asian economies is bound to influence other societies as well. Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres focuses on modern highly developed East Asian societies and their social issues, particularly ones that are related to family, institution, and health. By examining the modernized global society and its connectedness, this book is a vital resource for researchers, students, and academicians interested in the distinctive features connected with local, social and cultural traditions of East Asian society.

Author : Takashi Inoguchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811954665

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Typology of Asian Societies by Takashi Inoguchi Pdf

This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals’ satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis. It adopts an evidence-based approach in typologizing and a bottom-up rather than a top-down perspective. Thus, the book’s position is against Hegel (freedom for one person), Marx (the Asiatic mode of production), Weber (Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism), Wittfogel (Asiatic autocracy), and Rostow (Western-led modernization). These classical and modern authors tend to see Asian societies with somewhat fixated eyes and categorize Asian societies in a top-down manner. When random-sampled respondents are questioned about their satisfaction with daily life in terms of life domains, aspects, and styles, public policy and institutions as well as survival and social relations are inevitably touched upon—the latter two being the key dimensions common to the World Values Survey and other cultural surveys. This book proposes a new mode of typologizing societies, Asian or non-Asian, not immediately familiar to human geographers, cultural anthropologists, or sociologists, but revealing many complex unknowns with the easy-to-learn typologizing method.

Author : Juan Francisco Martinez,Kwangsuk Yoo,Brian Byrd
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666721096

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The Role of Religious Culture for Social Progress in East Asian Society by Juan Francisco Martinez,Kwangsuk Yoo,Brian Byrd Pdf

Religious culture is an important keyword for understanding rapidly changing East Asian society, especially China, Japan, and Korea. Despite the common influence of Confucian culture on these countries, each has shown a very different pattern of social progress in modern and postmodern times. Although surveys report a low ratio of religious identification and membership in this region, people in this area are religious in a different way from Western societies, and religious culture is closely related to political, economic, and social subsystems. A real force of changing East Asian society is not only political powers or economic classes, but also an invisible culture based on religious belief and practice. This book focuses on the dynamic relationship between social progress and religious culture, organization, or movements in each society since 1945.

Author : Doris Bühler-Niederberger,Xiaorong Gu,Jessica Schwittek,Elena Kim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803822839

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The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies by Doris Bühler-Niederberger,Xiaorong Gu,Jessica Schwittek,Elena Kim Pdf

The 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.

Author : Boria Majumdar,J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317998945

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Sport in South Asian Society by Boria Majumdar,J A Mangan Pdf

A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian sport cannot be understood by simply looking at the history of the game in one province or region. Furthermore, it demonstrates that it would be wrong to understand sport in terms of the exigencies of the colonial state. Drawing inspiration from C.L.R. James' well-known epigram, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' the findings suggest that South Asian sport makes sense only when it is placed within the broader colonial and post-colonial context. The book demonstrates that sport not only influences politics and vice versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political, it is politics, intrigue, culture and art. To deny this is to denigrate the position of sport in modern South Asian society. This volume was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Adrian J. Bailey,Ricardo K. S. Mak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501505553

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Asia and China in the Global Era by Adrian J. Bailey,Ricardo K. S. Mak Pdf

China's strong economic growth occurring alongside modernization across the great majority of Asian societies has created what many see as a transnational space through and by which not only economic, social and cultural resources, but also threats and crises flow over traditional political boundaries. The first section of the work lays out a clear conceptual framework. It draws on arguments about nation no longer being the only container of society, about trans-disciplinary thinking, and about knowledge being context-bound. It identifies and discusses distinctive features of China and Asia in the global era. These include population, urbanization and climate change; the continuing reach of Orientalist shadows; cultural politics of knowledge. It closes by arguing how global studies adds value to existing accounts. The second, and longer, section applies this framework through a series of original empirical case-studies in three areas: migration/poverty/gender; culture/education; well-being. Both the conceptual framework and case-studies are drawn from research presented at HKBU since 2011 under the auspices of the Global Social Sciences Conference Series and supplemented by additional papers.

Author : Merviö, Mika Markus
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799818090

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Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies by Merviö, Mika Markus Pdf

East Asian societies continue to react to developments occurring in the Western part of the world as well as influence development elsewhere due to the global reach of East Asian economies and the increased political weight of East Asian societies. These systems have distinctive features often connected with local social and cultural traditions. However, these traditions are constantly being reinterpreted, and the changing meanings attached to them must be taken into account. Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies is an essential research book that explores various social, environmental, and cultural issues challenging modern East Asian cultures and their implications on society. Featuring a wide range of topics such as local identity, social risk, and government policy, this book is ideal for researchers, policymakers, sociologists, managers, anthropologists, politicians, diplomats, academicians, and students.

Author : Edward Vickers,Krishna Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135007263

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Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship by Edward Vickers,Krishna Kumar Pdf

In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where efforts to modernize – spurred on by the spectre of foreign domination – have often been accompanied by determined attempts to stamp national variants of modernity with the brand of local authenticity: ‘Asian values’, ‘Chinese characteristics’, a Japanese cultural ‘essence’ and so forth. Highlighting (or exaggerating) associations between the more unsettling consequences of modernization and alien influence has thus formed part of a strategy whereby elites in many Asian societies have sought to construct new forms of legitimacy for old patterns of dominance over the masses. The apparatus of modern systems of mass education, often inherited from colonial rulers, has been just one instrument in such campaigns of state legitimation. This book presents analyses of a range of contemporary projects of citizenship formation across Asia in order to identify those issues and concerns most central to Asian debates over the construction of modern identities. Its main focus is on schooling, but also examines other vehicles for citizenship-formation, such as museums and the internet; the role of religion (in particular Islam) in debates over citizenship and identity in certain Asian societies; and the relationship between state-centred identity discourses and the experience of increasingly ‘globalized’ elites. With chapters from an international team of contributors, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, Asian education, comparative education and citizenship.

Author : John Chi-Kin Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134127290

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The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies by John Chi-Kin Lee Pdf

Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge, students need to be docile and conformist, assessment needs to sift and sort the bright from the not-so-bright, and rewards will be given to those who successfully negotiate this regime. But are these the kinds of places that can meet the needs of the ‘net generation’? The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies is concerned with the debate about the nature of modern schooling in Asia. Traditionally schools are historical constructions reflecting the social, economic and political needs of the societies that invest in them. As Asia faces the challenges posed by the ‘knowledge economy’, its schools have taken on a new and quite different importance. This informative book outlines the broad policy contexts in which these transformations are taking place and the practical strategies that are needed to meet this objective. The authors argue that the future of Asian societies depends on a transformation that requires a fundamental restructuring of schools as we know them while maintaining their long-held cultural values. This valuable insight: provides an overview of educational issues in Asian societies establishes a broad theoretical framework in which these issues can be understood contextualizes issues by providing country case studies acknowledges the important role of culture influencing educational priorities. It should be of interest to all those working in education policy and comparative education.

Author : Aat Emile Vervoorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111881525

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Re Orient by Aat Emile Vervoorn Pdf

In a lively and accessible way, Re-Orient describes the major issues facing societies in Asia towards the end of the twentieth century, and uses contemporary Asian societies as an exercise in thinking about societies in general.

Author : Ming Xie,Chin-Chung Chao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000962406

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Mobile Communication in Asian Society and Culture by Ming Xie,Chin-Chung Chao Pdf

Xie and Chao present a collection of research on mobile communication in Asian communities and countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, and South Korea. With chapters written by scholars from diverse cultural and institutional backgrounds, this book provides both localized and comparative perspectives on mobile communication research. Exploring the way mobile apps are used in daily life in Asian countries, Xie, Chao, and their contributors analyze how mobile apps improve lives, help people build relationships, sustain communities, and change society for the better. They look at areas including the role of mobile apps in public service delivery and access, family communication, cultural norms and identities, organizational communication, and intercultural communication. The investigation of these topics elevates the understanding of the cultural, familial, interpersonal, organizational, and intercultural consequences of mobile communication in a global context. Through examining mobile apps use in regard to scale, scope, depth, complexity, and distinctiveness within the Asian context, this book furthers the research agenda of mobile communication and enriches our understanding of current practice and future direction of mobile communication. This book serves as a useful reference for scholars and students interested to learn more of the development and application of mobile communication from a global and comparative perspective.

Author : Edward A Olsen,Stephen Jurika
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000314731

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The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies by Edward A Olsen,Stephen Jurika Pdf

First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in sixteen Asian countries, examining the interplay of these factors and their bearing on each society's civil-military relations. The authors explore the history, current status, and potential future course of each country. Analyzing all key Asian armed forces, they provide a comprehensive view of the military's domestic role-a crucial factor in assessing the foreign and defense policy options facing Asia as a whole.