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UNINA9910252702403321 |
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Autore |
Kyong-Dong Kim |
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Titolo |
Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development : East Asian Perspectives / / by Kim Kyong-Dong |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXV, 271 p. 5 illus.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology |
Ethnology - Asia |
Culture |
Economic development |
Asian Culture |
Development Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prolegomena: Alternative Discourses in Social Science as "Culturally Independent" Scholarship -- The Yin-Yang Dialectic and Principles of Social Change: Culturally Independent Alternative Sociological Ideas -- Selective Modernization and Alternative Modernities: In Search of an Alternative Theory -- From The "Culture of Development" Toward "Cultured" Development: An Alternative Theoretical Approach -- Postscript. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, |
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