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.
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