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Westernization
About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The authors explores the arguments that accompany the advocacy of democracy for all, with a specific focus on the limitations and links of its meaning among Western and non-western nations, to acknowledge the existence of non-Western ideas of democracy.
Abstract: This article explores the arguments that accompany the advocacy of democracy for all, with a specific focus on the limitations and links of its meaning among Western and non-Western nations, to acknowledge the existence of non-Western ideas of democracy.
21 citations
TL;DR: The authors argued that the accelerating sense of time reflected Japan's desperate efforts to catch up with the western level of industry in the shortest possible time, where time was equated with profit.
Abstract: Over the past century, Japanese society has undergone a radical change in its temporal experience, moving from one following the rhythms of nature to one of mathematical precision, namely, the western time system. Why did Japan westernize its time? This paper argues that it was for the sake of industrialization, where time was equated with profit. The accelerating sense of time reflected Japan's desperate efforts to catch up with the western level of industry in the shortest possible time.
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TL;DR: This article argued that the concepts of "sanskritization" and "social mobility" are irrelevant as employed in regard to the associations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that their uncritical application forces upon historical material interpretations at variance with empirical evidence.
Abstract: Anthropologists have looked at caste associational activities at the turn of the century in terms of the concepts of "sanskritization" and "social mobility," while seeing post-Independence ascriptive-constituency associations devoted to "secular" or "western" interests and postulating a sequential, evolutionary development from "sanskritization" to "westernization" to account for the difference. This essay examines these three concepts and argues not only that they are irrelevant as employed in regard to the associations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also that the concepts themselves are faulty and that their uncritical application forces upon historical material interpretations at variance with empirical evidence. The use of such culturally-specific terms as "sanskritization" further mitigates against possibly fruitful lines of comparative inquiry and analysis by implying that the phenomena to which reference is made are uniquely and solely Indian.
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TL;DR: This article explored the changing discursive forces that competed to define Korean women's identity and roles within the context of the new spaces created by colonialism and modernity, and argued that a small coterie of literate women seized the initiative to enhance their education, define the politics of physical aesthetics and con-tribute to the debate about the changing gender roles and expectations in Korean society all under the guise of 'Westernisation' and progress.
Abstract: This study seeks to explore the changing discursive forces that competed to define Korean women's identity and roles within the context of the new spaces created by colonialism and modernity. It argues that a small coterie of literate women seized the initiative to enhance their education, define the politics of physical aesthetics and con-tribute to the debate about the changing gender roles and expectations in Korean society all under the guise of 'Westernisation' and progress. The emergence of these 'new women' challenged traditional notions of Korean womanhood and brought the 'woman question' to the forefront of public discourse.
21 citations
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26 Apr 1995
TL;DR: The authors look at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westernization of the 19th and early-20th centuries.
Abstract: A look at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westernization of the 19th and early-20th centuries.
21 citations