{"title":"Raghunath, N. (2021). Shaping the futures of work: Proactive governance and millennials. McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP. 256 pases. ISBN: 978-0228008804","authors":"T. Willems","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 133-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41475103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Globalization and state size in East Asia: How do international NGOs cushion the effect of trade?","authors":"X. Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How does globalization influence the size of the state? Many studies examine the effect of economic globalization or the impact of International NGOs (INGOs, hereafter) on state size but fail to acknowledge the interdependent and antagonistic associations between them. This paper addresses this gap by examining the interaction of trade and INGOs and identify how this interaction differs in democratic and nondemocratic countries. In drawing on panel data from 6 East Asian countries in the period 1971-2009, this paper finds that the negative impact of trade on state size can be alleviated by the engagement of INGOs, and INGOs’ effect is much stronger in democratic countries. In addition, health INGOs have a similar pro-state effect which is also stronger in democracies. This suggests that INGOs help cushion the negative consequences of trade by collaborating with domestic actors, which is more likely to occur in democratic settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 107-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45198475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kristina Simion, (2021). Rule of law intermediaries. Brokering influence in Myanmar, Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108830867, 280 pages","authors":"E.L. Rhoads","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 135-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43574075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governance of social science research: Insights from Southeast Asia","authors":"D.S. Fussy","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper focuses on examining the governance mechanisms of social science research in Singapore and Vietnam, as selected cases in Southeast Asia. Documentary research, underpinned by a five-step analytical framework, was used to obtain relevant data and draw a comparative analysis. Both countries use similar mechanisms to manage and develop social science research. They integrate research into career policies and practices, establish national bodies to oversee the peer-review system, restrict access to and sharing of data, and use competitive funding in Singapore and mainly block funding in Vietnam. Some governance mechanisms are observed to have unintended consequences, including downplaying the role of domestic research and escalating precarious, individualistic and less creative working environment. The paper advances our understanding of the governance mechanisms of social science research in Singapore and Vietnam, which is crucial to inform the debate on the evolution of research systems in low- and middle-income countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 71-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44346317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rise of the social?: Socialization of care and gendered social economy in South Korea","authors":"H. Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2022.09.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2022.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper sheds light on the recent increase in social enterprises and cooperatives in the care services sector, in particular, in the context of socializing care from the family in South Korea. This paper pays attention to the dynamics between marketization and social protection and the emancipatory efforts to build rich market relationship. In this paper, first I explore the changes in the care regime and the development of the care labor market with a focus on Long Term Care Insurance for the elderly in South Korea. Then I review the care provision through Social and Solidarity Economy and various attempts to build rich market relations. Finally, I evaluate the range of efforts for socialization of care with gender perspective by using the framework which is derived from Fraser's (2013) scenario for emancipation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 80-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48730770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India's internal migrants and the first wave of COVID-19: The invisibility of female migrants","authors":"K. Saldanha , C. D'Cunha , L. Kovick","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article highlights the plight of India's internal migrants during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, when media images depicted scores of these migrants hustling to return home. Using literature and newspaper searches, the article describes background factors influencing the large flows of internal migrants and the complexities of accurately defining and studying them. The study spotlights the lack of attention paid to female migrants and how gender remains a neglected dimension of migration, even though the challenges faced by female migrants are far more acute during migration, postmigration, the pandemic lockdown, and the economic fallout likely to occur following the pandemic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 116-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergence of opposition to political correctness among Korean youth","authors":"H. Lee, M.-J. Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aimed to identify the factors underlying the emergence of opposition to political correctness (PC) among South Korean youth. PC opponents generally note that PC encourages intolerance and reverse discrimination. This study investigated certain factors potentially correlated with antipolitical correctness. A web survey was conducted among Korean youth (aged 20–29) to identify certain value-related and identity-related background factors of antipolitical correctness. The survey results revealed that (a) ideological conservatism, that is, a strong belief in conservative values, was positively correlated with antipolitical correctness, and (b) meritocracy was positively correlated with antipolitical correctness, but only among those who were familiar with the concept of PC. The results suggest that among PC debates in Korea, there may be inconsistent ideological orientations or different viewpoints on distributive justice among youth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 87-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44073958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teo, M. C. (2020). Crosslinguistic influence in Singapore English: Linguistic and social aspects. Routledge","authors":"Y. Sun, L. Liang, Y. Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Page 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42991474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exner, E. (2022). Comics and the origins of manga: A revisionist history. Rutgers University Press","authors":"D. Shamoon","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Page 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45418725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zachary M. Howlett (2021). Meritocracy and its discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China. Cornell University Press","authors":"G. Kristina","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Page 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47501743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}