Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2019"

TL;DR: In this article, the successive layers of policy development since the 1960s, in pensions and health benefits for some, and in social assistance programmes for the poor in the Reformasi era, are surveyed.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the current decline of insect-eating is rooted in local forms of modernity, rather than Western-dominated globalisation, and highlighted the relevance of economically-driven processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the English literature programs in Iran are promoting academic imperialism, which prompts the urgency of decolonisation of English literature and reveal how this decolonization can be taken to its ultimate conclusion.

TL;DR: This article employed a theoretical model derived from an academic and practical product development and consumer behaviour discourse to understand what makes Korean Pop music popular to Filipinos, addressing two research gaps: the lack of empirical management discourse, and a lack of focus on the Philippine KPop market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss a phenomenon that seems to point in a different direction, namely the contemporary reconfiguration of dukun/spiritual experts called paranormal, which indicate a peculiar form of pluralism.

TL;DR: The authors examined the possibilities, limitations, and challenges of religious pluralism in Indonesia today by examining Chinese Muslim dakwah (proselytisation) activities, as well as examining how Chinese Muslims engage with broader Islamic practices, gain support from various Muslim organisations and interact with various Muslim individuals.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used a mixed-research method to investigate Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) academics' perceptions of this innovative strategic plan across different types of universities, academics' ranks and locations of academic training.

TL;DR: In this paper, the essentialist critique of liberal multiculturalism highlights the fact that the latter is inadvertently wedded to a collective cultural identity politics, which has encouraged the reification and rigidification of group identities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used publicly available data from the World Bank, Credit Suisse, and Forbes Magazine for 11 countries in East Asia/South East Asia: Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam to examine whether increases in GDP/capita were accompanied by increases in wealth/adult and levels of wealth inequality between 2000 and 2016.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the answer lies not in playing diversity against unity, nor in emphasising secularism, rather, their argument is based on cosmopolitan theories and the transdifference approach to cultural plurality and takes a stand against a mere focus on national and ethnic issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the socio-political construal of innovations in rice biotechnology research in India with special reference to genetically modified (GM) technology is examined from a sociology of science and technology perspective.

TL;DR: This paper explored the ways in which young Koreans who have been living in Japan for greater or lesser lengths of time perceive the rise in hate speech directed against them there and their strategies for coping with it.

TL;DR: This paper explored why Chinese parents are eager to encourage their children to advance themselves by actively participating in elocution training, a popular form of shadow education, and argued that the purssuit of "silver tongues" is not only the articulation of parents' expectations regarding their children's personal growth, but also a critical method of constructing a utopic accessible, successful, and meaningful life for these parents, rather than their children.

TL;DR: The authors showed that potential groups are always part of representative relationships and that these are never equivalent to current constituency, and argued that compelling norms of descriptive representation for potential groups may be articulated, which justify descriptive representations for micro-diverse Koreans.

TL;DR: Agha et al. as discussed by the authors explored the representation of gender and citizenship in textbooks of Sindhi language used at the secondary level and found that women are represented much less in terms of being the main actors, involved in productive actions in society, or present in the public sphere.

TL;DR: In this article, a co-constructive relationship of sense of place and social capital is investigated in the context of post-disaster recovery in Yamamoto, Japan, where the 3.11 disaster greatly damaged, if not entirely destroyed, built environments and dislocated predisaster community networks.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative methodology was employed to understand the contexts and asylum seeker experiences and found that extraordinary institutional pressure is exerted on asylum seekers who cannot settle in Hong Kong but who are forced to rely on inadequate social protection to survive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the evolution and development of the phenomenon of SHG in the eastern Indian state of Odisha from the social movement perspective and examine the applicability of resource mobilisation theory to study it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place bullying and violence in South Korea within its life-course context by applying classic findings from developmental criminology conducted in Western societies to the South Korean case-file material.

TL;DR: The authors assess the state of theorising in Philippine sociology via the pages of the Philippine Sociological Review (PSR) and conclude that the climate of sociological theorizing in the Philippines is essentially synchronous in the global trend along such areas of concern.

TL;DR: In this article, the mixing of three or more languages in casual conversations, a hallmark of Chinese Malaysian informal speech, expresses a range of sociological and ideological meanings in the ongoing construction of Chinese Malaysia heteroglossic identities.