Pub Date : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100205
Balu Sunilraj , Aashti Salman
This article scrutinises the distinct political methods employed by the CPI(M) within the Malabar and Cochin-Travancore regions of Kerala, underlining the influence of regional dynamics in CPI(M)’s political praxis. Through a comprehensive comparative analysis, the research elucidates 2 principal findings: Firstly, the character of party-society affiliations exhibits considerable variation across the regions, incorporating both transactional (distributive) and nontransactional aspects that resist reductive vertical categorisation. Secondly, the CPI(M)'s political interaction with caste operates under fundamentally disparate logics within each region. In Cochin-Travancore, it is deemed an operational imperative, leading to negotiations with caste organisations, whereas the socio-political history of Malabar renders such negotiations superfluous.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100204
Lena Obermaier
{"title":"Massacre in the clouds: An American atrocity and the erasure of history (2024), by Kim A. Wagner","authors":"Lena Obermaier","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 3","pages":"Article 100204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144481289","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}
Pub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100202
J. Yang , L. Zhang , J. Zhu
The impact of educational inequality on social trust is a crucial yet often overlooked issue in social science research. We use the China General Social Survey (CGSS) dataset from 2010 to 2015 to construct city-level indices for both inequality of outcome and inequality of opportunity, and match them with micro data to explore the impact of educational inequality on residents’ social trust. The findings reveal significant disparities in educational development across cities. In each city, inequality of outcome, measured by the Theil index, ranges from 0.02 to 0.15, while educational attainments caused by inequality of opportunity account for 15% to 52% of the overall differences in educational outcome. Inequality of opportunity, rather than inequality of outcome, is found to undermine the social trust of residents. This effect is pronounced among disadvantaged individuals characterized by lower income, less education or a rural hukou. The results remain robust after conducting a series of robustness checks. Mechanism analysis further suggests that self-perceived economic situations and changes in social status serve as significant pathways through which inequality of opportunity affects social trust.
{"title":"Educational inequality and residents’ social trust in China: The role of inequality of opportunity","authors":"J. Yang , L. Zhang , J. Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The impact of educational inequality on social trust is a crucial yet often overlooked issue in social science research. We use the China General Social Survey (CGSS) dataset from 2010 to 2015 to construct city-level indices for both inequality of outcome and inequality of opportunity, and match them with micro data to explore the impact of educational inequality on residents’ social trust. The findings reveal significant disparities in educational development across cities. In each city, inequality of outcome, measured by the Theil index, ranges from 0.02 to 0.15, while educational attainments caused by inequality of opportunity account for 15% to 52% of the overall differences in educational outcome. Inequality of opportunity, rather than inequality of outcome, is found to undermine the social trust of residents. This effect is pronounced among disadvantaged individuals characterized by lower income, less education or a rural hukou. The results remain robust after conducting a series of robustness checks. Mechanism analysis further suggests that self-perceived economic situations and changes in social status serve as significant pathways through which inequality of opportunity affects social trust.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 3","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366633","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}
Pub Date : 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100201
Yafeng. Li, Shengbing. Gao
Christian culture, primarily shaped by adherents of Christianity, forms the core of Christian civilization. This religious culture was introduced to China through various channels, including language, Western missionaries, and translated texts. Over time, it has accumulated religious cultural capital, ultimately establishing the authority of Christian culture within China. During the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Western missionaries played a crucial role in the spread of Western civilization into China and Chinese civilization to the West, especially in spreading Christian religious culture in China. Based on the theory of cultural capital by Bourdieu, this paper discusses the preaching activities of Christian religious culture of Western missionaries during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, revealing the mission of Western missionaries as translators. On this basis, the article shows that how preaching strategies of Western missionaries as gospelers, were influenced by social field, clerisy, and symbolic capital. Furthermore, it finds that there is a strong correlation between translation and society, with both mutually influencing each other. Therefore, this article argues that Western missionaries in China, whether as translators or gospelers, is a reflection of the pursuit of religious authority and the capital competition for religious power in the religious field during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
{"title":"Translators and gospelers: The roles of western missionaries in China during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties from the perspective of cultural capital","authors":"Yafeng. Li, Shengbing. Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Christian culture, primarily shaped by adherents of Christianity, forms the core of Christian civilization. This religious culture was introduced to China through various channels, including language, Western missionaries, and translated texts. Over time, it has accumulated religious cultural capital, ultimately establishing the authority of Christian culture within China. During the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Western missionaries played a crucial role in the spread of Western civilization into China and Chinese civilization to the West, especially in spreading Christian religious culture in China. Based on the theory of cultural capital by Bourdieu, this paper discusses the preaching activities of Christian religious culture of Western missionaries during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, revealing the mission of Western missionaries as translators. On this basis, the article shows that how preaching strategies of Western missionaries as gospelers, were influenced by social field, clerisy, and symbolic capital. Furthermore, it finds that there is a strong correlation between translation and society, with both mutually influencing each other. Therefore, this article argues that Western missionaries in China, whether as translators or gospelers, is a reflection of the pursuit of religious authority and the capital competition for religious power in the religious field during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 3","pages":"Article 100201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144241728","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}
Pub Date : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100200
Jung Wook Son , Dong-Joon Jung
This study explores factors influencing legislative initiatives in the sharing economy, focusing on the interaction between traditional industry power and legislators' policy incentives. We identify four politician types: (a) constituency-centered legislators from districts with strong traditional groups, (b) constituency-centered legislators from districts with weak traditional groups, (c) party-centered legislators from districts with strong traditional groups, and (d) party-centered legislators from districts with weak traditional groups. Analyzing Uber’s operations in Seoul, South Korea, from 2012 to 2016 reveals the impact of legislators’ constituency-centered initiatives driven by strong traditional groups on regulatory outcomes concerning Uber. In contrast, legislators in the other three categories adopted a position of deliberate nonaction regarding Uber-related regulations, perceiving Uber’s early market entry as not beneficial to the general public. Our findings contribute to bridging the gap in existing literature by highlighting the significance of the supply side of policymaking in the sharing economy.
{"title":"The politics of the sharing economy: Evidence from Uber in South Korea","authors":"Jung Wook Son , Dong-Joon Jung","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100200","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores factors influencing legislative initiatives in the sharing economy, focusing on the interaction between traditional industry power and legislators' policy incentives. We identify four politician types: (a) constituency-centered legislators from districts with strong traditional groups, (b) constituency-centered legislators from districts with weak traditional groups, (c) party-centered legislators from districts with strong traditional groups, and (d) party-centered legislators from districts with weak traditional groups. Analyzing Uber’s operations in Seoul, South Korea, from 2012 to 2016 reveals the impact of legislators’ constituency-centered initiatives driven by strong traditional groups on regulatory outcomes concerning Uber. In contrast, legislators in the other three categories adopted a position of deliberate nonaction regarding Uber-related regulations, perceiving Uber’s early market entry as not beneficial to the general public. Our findings contribute to bridging the gap in existing literature by highlighting the significance of the supply side of policymaking in the sharing economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144137883","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}
Pub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100196
Xixi Wang, Bernadette Maria Watson
Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong are typically afflicted with various health issues. Research on foreign domestic workers’ experiences utilizing healthcare services remains scarce, especially on their communication with ethnic-discordant healthcare providers. By invoking Street’s ecological model (2003), this research elicits foreign domestic workers’ perspectives and seeks to identify how organizational and cultural factors shape their perceptions of communication with healthcare providers. Thirty female foreign domestic workers participated in semi-structured interviews. They reported that their communication with healthcare providers was susceptible to language-related issues and perceived power distance, which were embedded within the cultural context. Additionally, foreign domestic workers’ narratives confirmed that time constraints and types of healthcare settings, within the organizational context, affected their engagement in medical consultations. These findings support that culturally- and organizationally-pertinent factors affect foreign domestic workers’ perceptions of medical consultations. Intervention strategies to improve communication between foreign domestic worker patients and healthcare providers are recommended.
{"title":"“If doctors ask me to talk, I will talk”: What influences Hong Kong foreign domestic workers’ perceived involvement in healthcare?","authors":"Xixi Wang, Bernadette Maria Watson","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong are typically afflicted with various health issues. Research on foreign domestic workers’ experiences utilizing healthcare services remains scarce, especially on their communication with ethnic-discordant healthcare providers. By invoking Street’s ecological model (2003), this research elicits foreign domestic workers’ perspectives and seeks to identify how organizational and cultural factors shape their perceptions of communication with healthcare providers. Thirty female foreign domestic workers participated in semi-structured interviews. They reported that their communication with healthcare providers was susceptible to language-related issues and perceived power distance, which were embedded within the cultural context. Additionally, foreign domestic workers’ narratives confirmed that time constraints and types of healthcare settings, within the organizational context, affected their engagement in medical consultations. These findings support that culturally- and organizationally-pertinent factors affect foreign domestic workers’ perceptions of medical consultations. Intervention strategies to improve communication between foreign domestic worker patients and healthcare providers are recommended.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143950453","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}
Pub Date : 2025-05-11DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100199
George B. Radics
{"title":"Lamchek, Jayson S. (2018) Human Rights-Compliant Counterterrorism Myth-making and Reality in the Philippines and Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. 250 pages. ISBN: 978-1108-49-233-1","authors":"George B. Radics","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100199","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100199"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931396","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}
Pub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100197
Charrlotte Adelina , Jenny Yi-Chen Han
Our study identifies the relationships between entrepreneurial urbanization and masculine identities through the case study of smart city development in Khon Kaen, a secondary city in Thailand. We studied the planning and governance structure of the smart city plan, vis-à-vis the motivations, experiences, and responses to urban development in poor communities. We interviewed men and women from different livelihood, age, and class groups to answer the following questions: (a) How do masculine identities and roles shape entrepreneurial modes and processes of urbanization? Specifically, how is urban governance gendered? (b) How does urban development reinforce, reconfigure, or alienate masculine identities? We argue that while technocratic business masculinities are reinforced in an age of neoliberal urbanization, the spurring of privatized smart enclaves and knowledge economies threaten the identities of working-class men and their gendered experience of belonging in the city. The masculinization of urban elite networks accompanied by the feminization of the civil society further enables exclusionary modes of city governance to operate. This is brought about through the tokenizing of poor communities’ participation in planning processes and a manufacturing of cohesion through the appropriation of technocratic and evidence-based approaches by elite networks that typify technocratic masculine ideals, as opposed to the ‘feminine’ affective and consultative strategies employed by civil society groups.
{"title":"Entrepreneurial urbanization and masculine identities: an exploratory study of Khon Kaen, Thailand","authors":"Charrlotte Adelina , Jenny Yi-Chen Han","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our study identifies the relationships between entrepreneurial urbanization and masculine identities through the case study of smart city development in Khon Kaen, a secondary city in Thailand. We studied the planning and governance structure of the smart city plan, vis-à-vis the motivations, experiences, and responses to urban development in poor communities. We interviewed men and women from different livelihood, age, and class groups to answer the following questions: (a) How do masculine identities and roles shape entrepreneurial modes and processes of urbanization? Specifically, how is urban governance gendered? (b) How does urban development reinforce, reconfigure, or alienate masculine identities? We argue that while technocratic business masculinities are reinforced in an age of neoliberal urbanization, the spurring of privatized smart enclaves and knowledge economies threaten the identities of working-class men and their gendered experience of belonging in the city. The masculinization of urban elite networks accompanied by the feminization of the civil society further enables exclusionary modes of city governance to operate. This is brought about through the tokenizing of poor communities’ participation in planning processes and a manufacturing of cohesion through the appropriation of technocratic and evidence-based approaches by elite networks that typify technocratic masculine ideals, as opposed to the ‘feminine’ affective and consultative strategies employed by civil society groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143894913","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}
Pub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100198
Lina Sun
This paper critically examines the "lying flat" movement as a sociocultural phenomenon of the Chinese youth within their form of passive resistance against the dominant work ethic and societal expectations. Drawing on narrative inquiry, this study foregrounds the personal stories and reflections of the involved with the movement, understanding their motivations, experiences, as well as the larger implications that accompany the decision to "lie flat." The study uses qualitative interviews in various urban centers in China to bring to light the sensitivity with which young people are re-envisaging work, success, and independence in the wake of contemporary pressures of life. The findings reveal an intricate landscape of resistance, resignation, and creative adaptation in which "lying flat" is not just a story of withdrawal but becomes a statement about personal agency and social critique. This tendency is signaling a huge problem in discourse related to labor, leisure, and the meaning of a fulfilled life, contesting the unsustainable demands towards the younger generation. Implications of this study extend to policy makers, educators, and societal stakeholders that ask us to reflect on the values which define success and achievement.
{"title":"Beyond resistance and resignation: A narrative inquiry into the \"lying flat\" movement and the reimagining of work, success, and autonomy among Chinese urban youth (AJSS-100198)","authors":"Lina Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper critically examines the \"lying flat\" movement as a sociocultural phenomenon of the Chinese youth within their form of passive resistance against the dominant work ethic and societal expectations. Drawing on narrative inquiry, this study foregrounds the personal stories and reflections of the involved with the movement, understanding their motivations, experiences, as well as the larger implications that accompany the decision to \"lie flat.\" The study uses qualitative interviews in various urban centers in China to bring to light the sensitivity with which young people are re-envisaging work, success, and independence in the wake of contemporary pressures of life. The findings reveal an intricate landscape of resistance, resignation, and creative adaptation in which \"lying flat\" is not just a story of withdrawal but becomes a statement about personal agency and social critique. This tendency is signaling a huge problem in discourse related to labor, leisure, and the meaning of a fulfilled life, contesting the unsustainable demands towards the younger generation. Implications of this study extend to policy makers, educators, and societal stakeholders that ask us to reflect on the values which define success and achievement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143892144","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}
Pub Date : 2025-04-18DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100195
Jane M Jacobs
{"title":"Chee, Lilian 2023 Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces. Oxford and New York: Routledge","authors":"Jane M Jacobs","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100195"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843070","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}
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