Overview
- Provides a useful tool to understand the experience of modernization and development in the region of East Asia and attain a balanced view of world cultures in the global effort to handle key contemporary issues
- Demonstrates the usefulness of an eclectic methodology relying on culturally specific approaches holistic, and moral-ethical approaches typical of Eastern scholarship
- Encourages a less abstract tradition of scholarship, emphasizing the relevance to real world issues impact of social research in the global modernization effort
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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.
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Reviews
“This three-volume series is a magnificent synthesis of questions and debates over modernization, development and Confucianism in the context of Korea and East Asia. … In sum, the trilogy is a great accomplishment not only for the author, but also for the Korean sociological community, channeling their distinctive experience of modernization with global academia.” (Jaeyeol Yee, Development and Society, Vol. 46 (3), December, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Korean Modernization and Uneven Development
Book Subtitle: Alternative Sociological Accounts
Authors: Kim Kyong-Dong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3494-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3493-0Published: 22 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9887-1Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3494-7Published: 10 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Non-Western Philosophy, Area Studies, Sociology of Culture