ABSTRACT
Challenging social institutions in terms of opposing the government, occupying in protest, and radicalism is prevalent in the Chinese society of Hong Kong. In addition to discontent with China and its agency in Hong Kong, class consciousness, struggle, or uprising is another cause of challenge to government and other social institutions. Despite the apparent significant surpluses of the emerging adult in all the indicators of challenging social institutions, the net effects due to emerging adulthood were significant only in commitment to occupying protest and radicalism, but not in opposition to government. Emerging adulthood appeared to show significantly more positive effects on the challenge to social institutions in the latest survey date. Apart from emerging adulthood, background characteristics that consistently manifested some significant effects on challenging social institutions were gender, family size, residency in Hong Kong, self-employment, unemployment, and private housing ownership.
