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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300593003321

Autore

Kuah Khun Eng

Titolo

Social Cultural Engineering and the Singaporean State / / by Khun Eng Kuah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-10-6971-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture

Ethnology

Economic development

Social change

Public policy

Sociology of Culture

Cultural Anthropology

Development and Social Change

Public Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering. It deals with the relationship between the Singaporean state and local agencies and how the latter negotiated with the state to establish an acceptable framework for social cultural engineering to proceed. The book also highlights the tensions and conflicts that occurred during this process. The various chapters examine how the Singaporean state used polices and regulatory control to conserve and maintain ethno-cultural and ethno-religious landscapes, develop a moral education system and how the treatment of women and its morality came into alignment with the values that the state espoused upon from the 1980s through the 1990s.