Korean Modernization and Uneven Development

Alternative Sociological Accounts

Kim Kyong-Dong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-3493-0 (ISBN)

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Offering an alternative discourse on modernization and development viewed specifically from the East Asia perspective, this book focuses its analysis on the Korean experience of modernization and development. It considers the broad range of societal transformations which have occurred over the past half century, utilizing the vernacular language of Korea extracted from everyday life to interpret, characterize, globalize and pedagogically broaden the understanding and the human meaning behind these complex social changes.

Dr Kim Kyong-Dong is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Seoul National University, South Korea. The preeminent sociologist in Korea, he has devoted his career to analyzing and comparing "east" and "west" issues from a cultural perspective. After gaining his PhD at Cornell University in the US, Professor Kim was a visiting scholar in the US, Taiwan, France and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, as well as President of the Korean Sociological Association. He has widely published in English, Korean, Japanese and French on issues of development and modernization, social change and industrialization, sociological theory, education and religion.

Prologue.- What Made Korea Tick? Alternative Accounts of the Distinctive Features of Korea's Economic Modernization.- What Has Transpired in the Process of Korean Modernization? A Thematic Approach to the Nature of Social Change.- The Myths of Korean Democracy: Cultural-Structural Lag in Korean Politics.- Political and Cultural Selectivity in the Dynamics of Industrial Relations in Korea: An Alternative Sociological Approach.- Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	29 Illustrations, black and white; XXIV, 286 p. 29 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	academic scholarship and eastern philosophy • impact of scholarship on social issues • modernisation and uneven development • modernising society in Korea • societal transformation in Korea and Asia • tradition of Confucianism and global development.
ISBN-10	981-10-3493-1 / 9811034931
ISBN-13	978-981-10-3493-0 / 9789811034930
Zustand	Neuware