Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development

East Asian Perspectives

Kim Kyong-Dong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

271 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-3466-4 (ISBN)

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This 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.

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.

Prolegomena: Alternative Discourses in Social Science as "Culturally Independent" Scholarship.- The Yin-Yang Dialectic and Principles of Social Change: Culturally Independent Alternative Sociological Ideas.- Selective Modernization and Alternative Modernities: In Search of an Alternative Theory.- From The "Culture of Development" Toward "Cultured" Development: An Alternative Theoretical Approach.- Postscript.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 271 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	academia in late-modernizing societies • evolution of capitalism in East Asia • modernization and development in East Asia • non-Western academia • values and ethics in academic discourse • yin-yang dialectic and East Asian classical thought
ISBN-10	981-10-3466-4 / 9811034664
ISBN-13	978-981-10-3466-4 / 9789811034664
Zustand	Neuware