The Civil Sphere in East Asia
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The Civil Sphere in East Asia

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The Civil Sphere in East Asia

About this book

Leading sociologists who live and work in East Asia examine their region's most dangerous and explosive social problems, and some of their most stunning success stories, from the viewpoint of Civil Sphere Theory. This new and increasingly influential sociological understanding of democracy aims to describe and explain the moral codes and institutional foundations of democratic solidarity, as it manifests itself within a distinct social sphere. Part of a multi-volume project, this collection includes cases from Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, bringing together efforts by sociologists based in East Asian academic institutions. Through an extraordinary blend of sophisticated social theory and path-breaking empirical research, The Civil Sphere in East Asia aims to advance civil sphere theory by globalizing and regionalizing it at the same time.

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Yes, you can access The Civil Sphere in East Asia by Jeffrey C. Alexander,David A. Palmer,Sunwoong Park,Agnes Shuk-mei Ku in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Preface and Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: The Civil Sphere in the Cultural and Political Transformations of Modern East Asia
  11. 1 South Korea’s Presidential Scandal and Civil Repair
  12. 2 System Crisis and the Civil Sphere: Media Discourse on the Crisis of Education in South Korea
  13. 3 Boundary Tension and Reconstruction: Credit Information Crises and the Civil Sphere in Korea
  14. 4 Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong
  15. 5 Fault Line in the Civil Sphere: Explaining New Divisions in Hong Kong’s Opposition Movement
  16. 6 Three Moral Codes and Microcivil Spheres in China
  17. 7 Attempting Civil Repair in China: SACOM’s Campaigns and the Challenge to Digital Capitalism
  18. 8 Fantasy Is More Believable: The Shadow Civil Sphere in Chinese Online Fiction
  19. 9 Institutions and Civil Instantiation: The Case of Modern Japanese Police
  20. 10 What Constitutes “Autonomy” in the Japanese Civil Sphere?: The Struggle over Surrogacy
  21. 11 Developing Communicative Institutions in Local Communities: The Practice of Participatory Budgeting in Taiwan
  22. 12 Reconciliation through the Transnational Civil Sphere?: Historical Dialogue and the Tri-National Joint History Project in East Asia
  23. Commentary: Opening Up Civil Sphere Theory: From the United States through Latin America to East Asia
  24. Conclusion: Theoretical Issues in Comparative Perspective
  25. Index