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The Logic of Compressed Modernity

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Most theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries but in decades.  Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits.

In this important book, Chang Kyung-Sup provides a systematic account of this compressed modernity and uses it to analyse the extreme social changes, complexities and imbalances found in South Korea and other East Asian societies. While these changes enabled South Korea to modernize very quickly and achieve high levels of economic growth, they also created a society that is haunted by various developmental and civilizational costs, such as endemic generational conflicts, overloaded family responsibilities and exceptionally high suicide rates. As with other societies that have experienced compressed modernity, the South Korean “miracle” is replete with extreme and contradictory social traits.

This pioneering work of the nature and consequences of compressed modernity will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics and development studies, as well as anyone interested in South Korea, Asia and postcolonial societies.

Author: Kyung-Sup Chang
Publisher: POLITY PRESS
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781509552894
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2022

List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations

Preface

Part I. Compressed Modernity in Perspective

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Compressed Modernity: Constitutive Dimensions and Manifesting Units

Chapter 3. Compressed Modernity in the Universalist Perspective

Part II. Structural Properties of Compressed Modernity

Chapter 4. Internal Multiple Modernities: South Korea as Multiplex Theater Society

Chapter 5. Transformative Contributory Rights: Citizen(ship) in Compressed Modernity

Chapter 6. Complex-Culturalism vs. Multiculturalism

Chapter 7. Productive Maximization, Reproductive Meltdown

Chapter 8. Social Institutional Deficits and Infrastructural Familialism

Chapter 9. The Demographic Configuration of Compressed Modernity

Part III. After Compressed Modernity

Chapter 10. The Post-Compressed Modern Condition

Notes

References

Index 

Chang Kyung-Sup is a Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University.

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