Kyung-Sup Chang

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 a

1.Compressed Modernity and Its Familial Basis 2. Accidental Pluralism 3. The Social Investment Family and Educational Politics 4. The Nuclear Family and Welfare Politics 5. Women's Labor and Gendered Industrialization 6. The Peasant Family and Rural-Urban Relations 7. Chaebol: the Logic of Familial Capitalism 8. Politics of Defamiliation 9. The Sustainability Crisis of Familial Modernity

The purpose of this article is to analyze the complex relationships among economic development, democracy, and citizenship as they have been manifested in the South Korean context since the late 1980s. It begins by examining the structural relationship between economic development and political democratization in South Korea with an analytical focus on the substantive function of democratic politics in delivering various citizenship rights. Then, the citizenship ramifications of the national eco

In previous issues of Economy and Society, Somerville and Durham debated the moralization of neo-liberal family policy. The conservative politics of the family has been moralized not only in Anglo-American societies but also in South Korea. From a neo-Confucian perspective, many conservative politicians and even scholars have found a convenient scapegoat in the nuclear family as the main cause of many recent social problems, in particular, widespread poverty and psychological difficulties among

Introduction: Neoliberalism and Developmental Politics in Perspective C.Kyung-Sup , L.Weiss B.Fine PART I: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM: CRITICAL ISSUES The Myth of the Neoliberal State L.Weiss Kicking Away the Ladder: Neoliberalism and the 'Real' History of Capitalism C.Ha-Joon Neo-Liberalism in Retrospect? - It's Financialisation, Stupid B.Fine Predicaments of Neoliberalism in the Post-Developmental Liberal Context C.Kyung-Sup European Welfare States: Neoliberal Retrenchment, Devel

(1997). Modernity through the family: Familial foundations of Korean society. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 51-63.

Rural industrialisation in China in the post‐Maoist era involves the social transformation of the peasant population into a new class, which is partially detached from agriculture and employed in diverse non‐state enterprises ranging from family‐run businesses to village and township‐run enterprises. The peasant family internalises this transformation, as it reallocates labour and capital into new industrial and tertiary sectors while maintaining agricultural production as a first and last means

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As a critique of the popular perspective on China's rural reform centered on microinstitutional problems of collective farming such as work incentive and monitoring, this paper places an alternative emphasis on the distinct organizational characteristics of the peasant family in production, distribution, and welfare. What the Chinese state saw in family-based peasantry was not a typical market-oriented private economy operating mainly in pursuit of short term profits, but a multipurpose, morally