{"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}
{"title":"Review essay: A few good men: Economists in public service in South Asia","authors":"H. Khondker","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 123-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42218820","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":"The politics of meaning: Modern Chinese nationalists’ efforts to redefine the English word “nation”","authors":"X. Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A semantic transformation of the English word “nation” has occurred in recent China. The once popular “ethnic group” connotation of “nation” has been dropped, while the “state-nation” connotation has become increasingly prominent. The change can be attributed to the efforts of Chinese intellectuals who wished to redefine the word—an endeavor which began nearly 100 years ago. The dynamics behind this redefinition has arisen from a nationalist desire to eliminate the threat to the territorial unity of China brought about by the idea of “national self-determination.” By manipulating the politics of meaning, that is, redefining “nation” as “state-nation,” Chinese intellectuals have eventually converted the original separatist slogan into a slogan of maintaining national unity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 100-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49303765","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":"Rafael, V. L. (2022). The sovereign trickster: Death and laughter in the age of Duterte. Duke University Press, 192pp","authors":"V.L. Gregorio","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Page 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47245189","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":"Ibrahim, F. (2021). From family to police force: Security and belonging on a South Asian border. Cornell University Press","authors":"Yingying Li, Yogeswaran Doraisingham","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 2","pages":"Pages 130-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47587939","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":"Biomedical doctor as acupuncturist: The business of Chinese medicine in the Philippines","authors":"Md. Nazrul Islam","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2022.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2022.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Acupuncture, a specialty of Chinese medicine, has become increasingly popular among urban middle-class health consumers in the Philippines in recent years. Professionalized training courses have started up and bio-medical doctors and nurses are the largest group of trainees enrolled in various programs. They are also the largest group of service providers cum trainers in the formal and private healthcare system. Based on a qualitative study approach, this study conducted face-to-face interviews with a questionnaire among trainees and practitioner cum trainers at the Ateneo de Manila University, the SMIC Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the St. Luke Medical Center- Quezon City, and the St. Luke Medical Center-Global City. This study finds that biomedical doctors and nurses from various ethnic groups have switched to practice acupuncture not only because of their fascination with Chinese medicine but also to respond to the market demand. Their entry is driven by a range of factors including, but not limited to: financial incentives, the limitations of biomedicine and the advantages of acupuncture, family tradition, and the idea of holism that is attached to Chinese medicine. The advantages to becoming an acupuncturist appear to be professional, economic and personal despite the challenges regarding the social and political circumstances. This paper concludes that biomedical professionals are in control of Chinese medicine specialties, which are being professionalized in the Philippines, and are making the industry a private multicultural and urban middle-class phenomenon, thus fulfilling the demand created by the market economy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 1","pages":"Pages 1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45220561","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":"‘Boys play soccer, girls watch on the corner’: Gendered play and spaces in Jakarta public playgrounds","authors":"F. Arlinkasari , D.F. Cushing , E. Miller","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2022.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2022.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper draws on a qualitative case study conducted between 2018 and 2019 with 34 children aged 6–12 years in two designated child-friendly public spaces in Jakarta, known as Ruang Publik Terpadu Ramah Anak (RPTRA), in the communities of Cililitan and Rawa Badak Selatan (Rasela). This article illustrates ways in which children construct and embed their gender identities through play and within playground spaces. The findings of this study speak the geography and spatial organizations of the public playgrounds in Jakarta that nourish male hegemonic practices, which impacted girls’ participation in play. Interestingly, this hegemonic culture was also reinforced by both the physical features and social structures of the playgrounds. We argue it is time to design and inject gender-sensitive policy into public playgrounds, wherein all children can equally participate in play and access their playground spaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 1","pages":"Pages 32-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43306278","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}