John Lie was born in Seoul, grew up in Tokyo and Honolulu, and studied in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He teaches social theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution an... more Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machination of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Parsons (1951), for example, treated the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a sociological subfield, with its distinct concerns and fashions. Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, or Montesquieu may rightfully claim to be the founder of political sociology insofar as they highlighted the social bases of power relations and political institutions. However, most contemporary scholars trace their intellectual lineage to Marx or Weber. Political sociology emerged as a distinct subfield in the 1950s, especially in the debate between pluralists and elite theorists. In the 1980s and 1990s political sociologists focused on social movements, the state, and institutions.
In the 2010s, the world is seemingly awash with waves of populism and anti-immigration movements.... more In the 2010s, the world is seemingly awash with waves of populism and anti-immigration movements. Yet virtually all discussions, owing to the prevailing Eurocentric perspective, bypass East Asia (more accurately, Northeast Asia) and the absence of strong populist or anti-immigration discourses or politics. This chapter presents a comparative and historical account of East Asian exceptionalism in the matter of migration crisis, especially given the West’s embrace of an insider-outsider dichotomy superseding the class- and nation-based divisions of the post–World War II era. The chapter also discusses some nascent articulations of Western-style populist discourses in Northeast Asia, and concludes with the potential for migration crisis in the region.
Page 1. EAST ASIA & PACIFIC REGION SERIES World Bank Discussion Papers Korean Industrial ... more Page 1. EAST ASIA & PACIFIC REGION SERIES World Bank Discussion Papers Korean Industrial Policy Legacies of the Past and Directions for the Future Danny M. Leipziger Peter A. Petri Page 2. Recent World Bank Discussion Papers No. ...
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2013
Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking Un... more Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking University (Nee and Layman 1969) and his ethnographic foray in Chinatown (Nee and Nee 1973), he has generated scores of impressive and influential articles and books on Chinese America and China in particular, but also more general and theoretical studies of ethnicity and immigration as well as economic sociology (e.g., Alba and Nee 2003; Nee and Swedberg 2007). Making a major contribution to one subfield is an accomplishment enough; that he has done so in several distinct ones—and repeatedly to boot—speaks to his intellectual reach and scholarly prowess. Indeed, Nee’s oeuvre may very well constitute a scholarly subfield in and of itself. One therefore waits in eager anticipation for Nee to elucidate China’s recent and ongoing transformation. Very few questions exercise the powers that be more than the ‘‘rise of China.’’ Professional sociologists have of course been privy to tantalizing previews. In a path-breaking article, Nee propounded the ‘‘market transition theory,’’ which conceptualized China’s shift from a system of state redistribution to that of market allocation (Nee 1989). Capitalism From Below, written with the Swedish economist Sonja Opper, is a culmination of his string of articles on Chinese economic change over the past two decades.
RACE, NATION, CLASS Ambiguous Identities ETIENNE BALIBAR and IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Forty years aft... more RACE, NATION, CLASS Ambiguous Identities ETIENNE BALIBAR and IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decoloniz- ation, how is it that racism remains a growing ...
movement itself. There could have been more discussion on the limits of rational choice perspecti... more movement itself. There could have been more discussion on the limits of rational choice perspectives in accounting for the phenomenon to be observed. However, this is not the intention of the author, as she states. There remains the problem of whether individual life histories and subjective ideological orientations are an adequate tool for analyzing the role of culture and symbolic forms in the making and unmaking of violent protest. All in all, this is an empirically solid, theoretically clear and, in substantive terms, extremely informative book on a topic that deserves much more theoretical attention. Donatella della Porta’s book could provide the encouragement and an empirical base for a larger theoretical debate on the formation and function of collective phenomena and situational dynamics in social life.
Although there has been a growing number of works on Korean residents in Japan (zainichi), this l... more Although there has been a growing number of works on Korean residents in Japan (zainichi), this largest ethnic minority of Japan hardly matters to students of modern Japan beyond the context of disproving the myth of Japan's homogeneity. With the increased ...
The post–World War II growth of area studies, and Asian studies in particular, posed a serious ch... more The post–World War II growth of area studies, and Asian studies in particular, posed a serious challenge to the mainstream social sciences. Yet the epistemic and institutional foundations of area studies were never well articulated or justified, and the post–Cold War years brought a pervasive sense of crisis to its intellectual mission and justification. In particular, the author focuses on the tensions, if not contradictions, between social science disciplines and area studies. In advocating a more integrated human science, which depends more on mobile networks of scholars than on fixed fields of discipline-bound professors, the author suggests global studies as a fitting field of inquiry in the age of globalization. Introduction The field upon which one strides is perforce self-evident and self-explanatory. Bizarre would be a person who examines the solid ground, who hesitates to take the next step. More troublingly, reflections on a field of study smack of irrelevance, something ...
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution an... more Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machination of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Parsons (1951), for example, treated the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a sociological subfield, with its distinct concerns and fashions. Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, or Montesquieu may rightfully claim to be the founder of political sociology insofar as they highlighted the social bases of power relations and political institutions. However, most contemporary scholars trace their intellectual lineage to Marx or Weber. Political sociology emerged as a distinct subfield in the 1950s, especially in the debate between pluralists and elite theorists. In the 1980s and 1990s political sociologists focused on social movements, the state, and institutions.
In the 2010s, the world is seemingly awash with waves of populism and anti-immigration movements.... more In the 2010s, the world is seemingly awash with waves of populism and anti-immigration movements. Yet virtually all discussions, owing to the prevailing Eurocentric perspective, bypass East Asia (more accurately, Northeast Asia) and the absence of strong populist or anti-immigration discourses or politics. This chapter presents a comparative and historical account of East Asian exceptionalism in the matter of migration crisis, especially given the West’s embrace of an insider-outsider dichotomy superseding the class- and nation-based divisions of the post–World War II era. The chapter also discusses some nascent articulations of Western-style populist discourses in Northeast Asia, and concludes with the potential for migration crisis in the region.
Page 1. EAST ASIA & PACIFIC REGION SERIES World Bank Discussion Papers Korean Industrial ... more Page 1. EAST ASIA & PACIFIC REGION SERIES World Bank Discussion Papers Korean Industrial Policy Legacies of the Past and Directions for the Future Danny M. Leipziger Peter A. Petri Page 2. Recent World Bank Discussion Papers No. ...
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2013
Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking Un... more Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking University (Nee and Layman 1969) and his ethnographic foray in Chinatown (Nee and Nee 1973), he has generated scores of impressive and influential articles and books on Chinese America and China in particular, but also more general and theoretical studies of ethnicity and immigration as well as economic sociology (e.g., Alba and Nee 2003; Nee and Swedberg 2007). Making a major contribution to one subfield is an accomplishment enough; that he has done so in several distinct ones—and repeatedly to boot—speaks to his intellectual reach and scholarly prowess. Indeed, Nee’s oeuvre may very well constitute a scholarly subfield in and of itself. One therefore waits in eager anticipation for Nee to elucidate China’s recent and ongoing transformation. Very few questions exercise the powers that be more than the ‘‘rise of China.’’ Professional sociologists have of course been privy to tantalizing previews. In a path-breaking article, Nee propounded the ‘‘market transition theory,’’ which conceptualized China’s shift from a system of state redistribution to that of market allocation (Nee 1989). Capitalism From Below, written with the Swedish economist Sonja Opper, is a culmination of his string of articles on Chinese economic change over the past two decades.
RACE, NATION, CLASS Ambiguous Identities ETIENNE BALIBAR and IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Forty years aft... more RACE, NATION, CLASS Ambiguous Identities ETIENNE BALIBAR and IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decoloniz- ation, how is it that racism remains a growing ...
movement itself. There could have been more discussion on the limits of rational choice perspecti... more movement itself. There could have been more discussion on the limits of rational choice perspectives in accounting for the phenomenon to be observed. However, this is not the intention of the author, as she states. There remains the problem of whether individual life histories and subjective ideological orientations are an adequate tool for analyzing the role of culture and symbolic forms in the making and unmaking of violent protest. All in all, this is an empirically solid, theoretically clear and, in substantive terms, extremely informative book on a topic that deserves much more theoretical attention. Donatella della Porta’s book could provide the encouragement and an empirical base for a larger theoretical debate on the formation and function of collective phenomena and situational dynamics in social life.
Although there has been a growing number of works on Korean residents in Japan (zainichi), this l... more Although there has been a growing number of works on Korean residents in Japan (zainichi), this largest ethnic minority of Japan hardly matters to students of modern Japan beyond the context of disproving the myth of Japan's homogeneity. With the increased ...
The post–World War II growth of area studies, and Asian studies in particular, posed a serious ch... more The post–World War II growth of area studies, and Asian studies in particular, posed a serious challenge to the mainstream social sciences. Yet the epistemic and institutional foundations of area studies were never well articulated or justified, and the post–Cold War years brought a pervasive sense of crisis to its intellectual mission and justification. In particular, the author focuses on the tensions, if not contradictions, between social science disciplines and area studies. In advocating a more integrated human science, which depends more on mobile networks of scholars than on fixed fields of discipline-bound professors, the author suggests global studies as a fitting field of inquiry in the age of globalization. Introduction The field upon which one strides is perforce self-evident and self-explanatory. Bizarre would be a person who examines the solid ground, who hesitates to take the next step. More troublingly, reflections on a field of study smack of irrelevance, something ...
Well we know where we're goin'But we don't know where we've been And we know what... more Well we know where we're goin'But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowin'But we can't say what we've seen And we're not little children And we know what we want Give us time to work it out.—Talking Heads1
... PART V Social Change 20 Population and Urbanization 578 21 Collective Action and ... the Four... more ... PART V Social Change 20 Population and Urbanization 578 21 Collective Action and ... the Four Theoretical Perspectives: The Problem of Fashion 20 A Sociological Compass 23 Equality ... Culture and Ethnocentrism: A Functionalist Analysis of Culture 72 Box 3.1 Sociology at the ...
1 Introduction: Multiethnic Korea John Lie
2 Migration, Discourse, and the Politics of Multi... more 1 Introduction: Multiethnic Korea John Lie
2 Migration, Discourse, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in South Korea: a Comparative Perspective 31 Timothy C. Lim
3 Korea: Multiethnic or Multicultural? 58 Nora Hui-Jung Kim
4 Tolerance, Tamunhwa, and the Creating of the new Citizens 79 EuyRyung Jun
5 Makeshift Multiculturalism: the transformation of Elementary School teacher training 95 Nancy Abelmann, Gayoung Chung, Sejung Ham, Jiyeon Kang, and Q-Ho Lee
6 The needs of others: revisiting the nation in north Korean and Filipino Migrant Churches in South Korea 119 Hae Yeon Choo
7 North Korean Migrants in South Korea: From heroes to Burdens and First unifiers 142 Jin-Heon Jung
8 Beyond Motherlands and Mother love: locating Korean adoptees in global Korea 165 Eleana Kim
9 Diverging Paths, Converging Ends: Japan’s and Korea’s low-Skilled Immigration Policies, 1990–2010 184 Keiko Yamanaka 10 Race-ing toward the real South Korea: the Cases of Black Korean nationals and African Migrants 211 Nadia Y. Kim
11 Almost Korean: Korean amerasians in an Era of Multiculturalism 244 Sue-Je L. Gage
12 Can the union of Patriarchy and Multiculturalism Work? Family Dynamics in Filipina-Korean rural households 277 Minjeong Kim
13 Korean Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective 301 Jack Jin Gary Lee and John D. Skrentny
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2 Migration, Discourse, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in South Korea: a Comparative Perspective 31 Timothy C. Lim
3 Korea: Multiethnic or Multicultural? 58 Nora Hui-Jung Kim
4 Tolerance, Tamunhwa, and the Creating of the new Citizens 79 EuyRyung Jun
5 Makeshift Multiculturalism: the transformation of Elementary School teacher training 95 Nancy Abelmann, Gayoung Chung, Sejung Ham, Jiyeon Kang, and Q-Ho Lee
6 The needs of others: revisiting the nation in north Korean and Filipino Migrant Churches in South Korea 119 Hae Yeon Choo
7 North Korean Migrants in South Korea: From heroes to Burdens and First unifiers 142 Jin-Heon Jung
8 Beyond Motherlands and Mother love: locating Korean adoptees in global Korea 165 Eleana Kim
9 Diverging Paths, Converging Ends: Japan’s and Korea’s low-Skilled Immigration Policies, 1990–2010 184 Keiko Yamanaka 10 Race-ing toward the real South Korea: the Cases of Black Korean nationals and African Migrants 211 Nadia Y. Kim
11 Almost Korean: Korean amerasians in an Era of Multiculturalism 244 Sue-Je L. Gage
12 Can the union of Patriarchy and Multiculturalism Work? Family Dynamics in Filipina-Korean rural households 277 Minjeong Kim
13 Korean Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective 301 Jack Jin Gary Lee and John D. Skrentny