The great transformation: social change in Taipei, Taiwan since the 1960s
In: Taiwan in the modern world
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In: Taiwan in the modern world
In: An East Gate book
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In: Social science quarterly, Band 95, Heft 4, S. 1001-1021
ISSN: 1540-6237
ObjectiveOne relatively neglected question raised by Amartya Sen's theory of human development is: Why do people and societies differ in their capacity to convert income and commodities into valuable human achievements ("functionings" in Sen's terminology)? I focus upon the degree to which people in developed and developing societies realize each of the six diverse types of valued functionings: long life, schooling, living in a society with less income inequality and less gender inequality, more political freedom, and greater life satisfaction.MethodsUsing data from all societies with a population of over 1 million (N= 156), I first regress each type of functioning on societies' GDP per capita to obtain the residual scores. These scores indicate which societies do better than expected, as expected, or worse than expected on the basis of their level of economic development.Results and ConclusionTo explain these differences, I then estimate an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model whose independent variables are economic growth rate, ethnolinguistic fractionalization, civil war fatalities, corruption, and several dummy variables for cultural regions of the world.
In: Comparative sociology, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 29-63
ISSN: 1569-1330
AbstractValues are conceptions of the desirable in various domains of life. This study tests the hypotheses that (1) when Muslims are a minority living in a non-Islamic society (e.g., India, Singapore, Uganda), their values are more similar to those of the non-Muslim majority religion in their society than to those of Muslims in Muslim-majority Islamic societies (e.g., Iran, Morocco, Pakistan); and (2) this tendency toward value assimilation is more pronounced when the Muslim minority is socially included, rather than excluded, by the non-Muslim majority. Data from representative samples of the population of nine Muslim-majority societies and nine Muslim-minority societies in the 2000 (fourth) wave of the World Values Surveys are used to construct scales for three domains of cultural values: religious values, family values, and gender values, and measures of social exclusion. The findings largely confirm hypothesis 1 and lend some support to hypothesis 2.
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 797-824
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 593-615
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 109, Heft 4, S. 1006-1008
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 37-59
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 37-59
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 106, Heft 2, S. 281-302
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Armed forces & society, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 608-611
ISSN: 1556-0848
In: Armed forces & society: official journal of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society : an interdisciplinary journal, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 608-611
ISSN: 0095-327X