David S. G. Goodman

Bio: David S. G. Goodman is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Politics. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 116 publications receiving 2107 citations. Previous affiliations of David S. G. Goodman include University of Technology, Sydney & Nanjing University.

The Campaign to “Open Up the West”: National, Provincial-level and Local Perspectives

Abstract: The campaign to Open Up the West that started in 2000 has been presented as a major state project of nation-building directed at the interior provincial-level jurisdictions in order to encourage endogenous economic growth, to reduce socio-economic inequalities, and to ensure social and political stability in non-Han areas of the PRC. Despite appearances to the contrary it is more of an adjustment to the PRC's regional development policy than a radical change, not least because of debate and imprecision about its goals, processes and finance. Its impact is perhaps best viewed from provincial and local perspectives. These stress not only the importance of the west's varied social and economic ecology, but also the significance of the sub-provincial as a focus for analysis.

The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle Class Revolution

Abstract: This is the first volume in the The New Rich in Asia series which examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' in the countries and territories of East and South East Asia, as well as their impact internationally. From a western perspective the rise of the emergent business and professional class may seem very familiar. However, it is far from clear that those newly enriched by the processes of modernization in East and South East Asia are readily comparable with the middle classes of the West. For example, civil and human rights seem to play a different role in social, political and economic change, and the State is clearly more central as an agent of economic development. This volume is the essential introduction to the series, and identifies the 'new rich' phenomenon in Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The contributors demonstrate that the key to understanding the 'new rich' is to realise that they are neither a single category or class, but in each setting a series of different socio-political groups who have a common inheritance from the process of rapid economic growth.

The New Rich in China: Future rulers, present lives

Abstract: Part 1: Introduction 1 The New Rich in China: The consequences of social change, David Goodman and Xiaowei Zang Part 2: Class, Status, and Power 2 Why there is no new middle class, David Goodman 3 Class and Stratum: The politics of description, Yingjie Guo 4 Social status, Xiaowei Zang Part 3:Agencies and Structures 5 CEOs and the corporate sector, Colin Hawes 6 Women Entrepreneurs and Local Politics, Minglu Chen 7 The Professional Middle Classes: Management and politics, Ivan Cucco 8 Lawyers, Doctors and Professors, Jingqing Yang 9 Small town entrepreneurs, Beatriz Carrillo 10 National minority entrepreneurs and activists, Tim Oakes and Wu Xiaoping Part 4: Life styles 11 "What's in a high-class neighbourhood?" Housing and ethical self-government for Beijing's new rich, Luigi Tomba 12 Cultural constructions, Stephanie Helmyrk Donald 13 New Symbolic Wealth: The Best Things Come in Small Boxes, Carolyn Cartier 14 The Maid's story: New rich family life styles, Sun Wanning 15 Women in Public, Louise Edwards 16 For love or money? Commercial sex and the new rich in reform-era China, Elaine Jeffreys

Nations and Nationalism

Abstract: Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

Paradoxes of gender

Abstract: In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist-who is also the founding editor of Gender & Society-challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.

The Third Wave

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Why is son preference so persistent in East and South Asia? a cross-country study of China, India, and the Republic of Korea

Abstract: Son preference has persisted in the face of sweeping economic and social changes in China, India, and the Republic of Korea. The authors attribute this to their similar family systems, which generate strong disincentives to raise daughters while valuing adult women's contributions to the household. Urbanization, female education, and employment can only slowly change these incentives without more direct efforts by the state and civil society to increase the flexibility of the kinship system such that daughters and sons can be perceived as being more equally valuable. Much can be done to this end through social movements, legislation, and the mass media.