Overview
Analyses the interaction between Confucian ideas, modernization and development in East Asia
Advances how scholarship in late-modernizing societies endeavors to gain 'cultural independence'
Considers how the culture of Confucianism has contributed to the historical dynamics of emergence and evolution of capitalism in the three East Asian nations
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About this book
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.
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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: Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development
Book Subtitle: East Asian Perspectives
Authors: Kim Kyong-Dong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3467-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3466-4Published: 18 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9880-2Published: 29 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3467-1Published: 08 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 271
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Asian Culture, Development and Social Change