Politics and Culture of Citizenship
The condensed social change and complex social order governing South Koreans' life cannot be satisfactorily delineated by relying on West-derived social theories or culturalist arguments. Nor can various globally eye-catching traits of this societ...
Theories of citizenship from the West - pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall - provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory - juridical, political and social rights - was not repeated in Asia and the...
Chang Kyung-Sup is a professor of sociology at Seoul National University, specialized in institutional sociology and comparative political economy. He has recently authored South Korea under Compressed Modernity (2010) and edited Contested Citizenship in East Asia (with Bryan S. Turner, 2012) and Developmental Politics in Transition (with Ben Fine and Linda Weiss, 2012).