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South Korea under Compressed Modernity

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South Korea under Compressed Modernity

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South Korea under Compressed Modernity book

Familial Political Economy in Transition

South Korea under Compressed Modernity

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South Korea under Compressed Modernity book

Familial Political Economy in Transition
ByKyung-Sup Chang
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 12 April 2010
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203854396
Pages 192
eBook ISBN 9780203854396
Subjects Area Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Social Sciences
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Chang, K.-S. (2010). South Korea under Compressed Modernity: Familial Political Economy in Transition (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203854396

ABSTRACT

The condensed social change and complex social order governing South Koreans’ life cannot be satisfactorily delineated by relying on West-derived social theories or culturalist arguments. Nor can various globally eye-catching traits of this society in industrial work, education, popular culture, and a host of other areas be analyzed without developing innovative conceptual tools and theoretical frameworks designed to tackle the South Korean uniqueness directly.

This book provides a fascinating account of South Korean society and its contemporary transformation. Focusing on the family as the most crucial micro foundation of South Korea’s economic, social, and political life, Chang demonstrates a shrewd insight into the ways in which family relations and family based interests  shape the structural and institutional changes ongoing in South Korea today. While the excessive educational pursuit, family-exploitative welfare, gender-biased industrialization, virtual demise of peasantry, and familial industrial governance in this society have been frequently discussed by local and international scholarship, the author innovatively explicates these remarkable trends from an integrative theoretical perspective of compressed modernity. The family-centered social order and everyday life in South Korea are analyzed as components and consequences of compressed modernity.

South Korea under Compressed Modernity is an essential read for anyone studying Contemporary Korea or the development of East Asian societies more generally.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|13 pages

Compressed modernity and its familial basis

chapter 2|13 pages

Accidental pluralism

chapter 3|24 pages

The social investment family and educational politics

chapter 4|17 pages

The nuclear family and welfare politics

chapter 5|14 pages

Women’s labor and gendered industrialization

chapter 6|19 pages

The peasant family and rural–urban relations

chapter 7|28 pages

Chaebol: The logic of familial capitalism

chapter 8|13 pages

Politics of defamiliation

chapter 9|7 pages

The sustainability crisis of familial modernity

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