Typology of Asian societies : bottom-up perspective and evidence-based approach / Takashi Inoguchi.
Inoguchi, Takashi.
2022
DS32.5
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Title Typology of Asian societies : bottom-up perspective and evidence-based approach / Takashi Inoguchi.
Author Inoguchi, Takashi.
ISBN 9789811954665 (electronic bk.)
9811954666 (electronic bk.)
9811954658
9789811954658
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5466-5
Published Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-5466-5 doi
Call Number DS32.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.095
Summary This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis. It adopts an evidence-based approach in typologizing and a bottom-up rather than a top-down perspective. Thus, the books position is against Hegel (freedom for one person), Marx (the Asiatic mode of production), Weber (Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism), Wittfogel (Asiatic autocracy), and Rostow (Western-led modernization). These classical and modern authors tend to see Asian societies with somewhat fixated eyes and categorize Asian societies in a top-down manner. When random-sampled respondents are questioned about their satisfaction with daily life in terms of life domains, aspects, and styles, public policy and institutions as well as survival and social relations are inevitably touched uponthe latter two being the key dimensions common to the World Values Survey and other cultural surveys. This book proposes a new mode of typologizing societies, Asian or non-Asian, not immediately familiar to human geographers, cultural anthropologists, or sociologists, but revealing many complex unknowns with the easy-to-learn typologizing method.
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Available in Other Form TYPOLOGY OF ASIAN SOCIETIES.
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The Need for a Bottom-Up Perspective about Asian Societies
The Need for an Evidence-Based Approach to Asian Societies
Two Methodological Issues
Attending Holistically and Analytically
Are Asian Societies One Type
Choosing Indicators and Typologizing of Societies
Factor Analysis Results
Twenty-Nine Types of Asian Societies
Strength and Weakness of the Proposed Typology
Corroborative Analysis and Empirical Validation
Conclusion.

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