The Risk of Compressed Modernity (eBook)
242 Seiten
Polity (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6964-9 (ISBN)
In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic growth very quickly, but it also harbored unexpected risks and costs that threatened further development. The very mechanisms and strategies that made their explosive modernization possible tended to produce existentially hazardous consequences in virtually all areas of public and private life, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to sustained advances in the future.
Focusing on South Korea and other Asian countries, this book presents a critical account of compressed modernity and its key structural risks. These include endemic political crises, distorted industrial governance, widespread labor displacement, worsening intellectual and cultural dependency, rampant environmental and physical hazards, and even abrupt demographic meltdown. However, these risks and contradictions have also stimulated structural reforms and adaptations, opening up the possibility for the kind of radical change that Ulrich Beck described as 'the metamorphosis of the world.'
Chang Kyung-Sup is SNU Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University.
In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic growth very quickly, but it also harbored unexpected risks and costs that threatened further development. The very mechanisms and strategies that made their explosive modernization possible tended to produce existentially hazardous consequences in virtually all areas of public and private life, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to sustained advances in the future. Focusing on South Korea and other Asian countries, this book presents a critical account of compressed modernity and its key structural risks. These include endemic political crises, distorted industrial governance, widespread labor displacement, worsening intellectual and cultural dependency, rampant environmental and physical hazards, and even abrupt demographic meltdown. However, these risks and contradictions have also stimulated structural reforms and adaptations, opening up the possibility for the kind of radical change that Ulrich Beck described as the metamorphosis of the world.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie |
| Schlagworte | Chang Kyung-Sup • Chang Kyung-Sup new book • compressed modernity • Development • Development Studies • East Asian Studies • environmental hazards in South Korea • industrial accidents in South Korea • industrial governance in South Korea • Korea • Korean Peninsula • Korean sociology books • low birth rate in South Korea • Modernity • Modernization • political crises in South Korea • Politics • postcolonial society • postcolonial studies • Sociology • sociology of South Korea • South Korea • suicide in South Korea • the logic of compressed modernity • what is compressed modernity? • why does South Korea have a high suicide rate? • why does South Korea have a low birth rate? |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-6964-2 / 1509569642 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-6964-9 / 9781509569649 |
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