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One of the main problems faced by teachers and students who have a scholarly interest in Southeast Asia is the lack of general, user-friendly texts in the social sciences. The absence of an introduction to the sociology of Southeast Asia is especially unfortunate. This volume attempts to meet these needs. This is, then, the first sole-authored introductory sociology text on Southeast Asia that focuses on change and development in the region, provides an overview of the important sociological and political economy writings, and considers the key concepts and themes in the field since 1945. Some multiauthored works do exist but these either are outdated or focus on specialized topics. Aimed primarily at undergraduates up to the final year, it will also be a useful reference work for post-graduates and researchers who lack such a general work.

Social change --- Social values --- Changement social --- Valeurs sociales --- Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Southeast asia --- Social science

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Dans un siècle marqué par la déchristianisation et l'individualisme, il est intéressant de voir qu'en Grande-Bretagne on assiste à un retour aux valeurs traditionnelles et à la définition de nouvelles valeurs pour vivre mieux en société. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage s'attachent à montrer comment certaines valeurs victoriennes comme l'amour de la campagne ou un intérêt pour la condition féminine se sont développées au xxe siècle pour donner naissance à de nouvelles valeurs comme l'égalité des sexes ou la protection des espaces verts ou ruraux. Par ailleurs d'autres valeurs sont nées de la transformation de la société britannique dans l'après-guerre avec, notamment, la création d'un service national de santé ou l'utilisation grandissante de la publicité. Ces différentes études de cas (sur les jardins, la campagne, la publicité, l'égalité des sexes, la santé, le sida) intéressent à divers titres le sociologue, le politiste ou tout lecteur curieux d'étudier la transformation de la société britannique.

Equality --- Public health --- Social values --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Santé publique --- Valeurs sociales --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Civilization --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Civilisation --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Values --- Angleterre --- nouvelles valeurs --- campagne --- femmes --- égalité

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This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernisation is a process of human development, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely. The authors present a model of social change that predicts how the value systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.

#SBIB:324H71 --- Social change. --- Social values. --- Democratization. --- Democracy. --- 174.5 --- 316.3 --- 174.5 Economische ethiek. Speculatie --- Economische ethiek. Speculatie --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Values --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- 316.3 Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Democracy --- Democratization --- Social change --- Social values --- Political systems --- Sociology of culture --- Changement social --- Valeurs sociales --- Démocratie --- Culture --- Développement économique --- Sociologie van de cultuur --- Sociale verandering --- Politieke systemen --- Changement social. --- Démocratie. --- Développement économique. --- Valeurs sociales. --- Culture. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West co-operation. Dr Woodiwiss's sociological and post-structuralist approach to the concept of rights, and his incorporation of the transnational dimension into sociological theory, enable him to demonstrate how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls 'enforceable benevolence'. His studies of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore highlight similarities between Pacific-Asian and Western societies and offer a positive view of the social forces obtaining in these territories.

Human rights --- Social values --- Labor laws and legislation --- Employees --- Employment law --- Industrial relations --- Labor law --- Labor standards (Labor law) --- Work --- Working class --- Industrial laws and legislation --- Social legislation --- Values --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Valeurs sociales --- Travail --- Droit --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- International economic relations --- Social law. Labour law --- Southeast Asia --- Social Sciences --- Sociology

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How does a discourse of ‘valuing others’ help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people ‘belong together’, as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings. Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse. Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.

Social values --- Difference (Philosophy) --- Group identity --- History --- Greece --- Rome --- Civilization --- Difference (Philosophy). --- Civilization. --- Valeurs sociales --- Différence (Philosophie) --- Identité collective --- History. --- Histoire --- Grèce --- Civilisation --- Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C. --- Group identity - Greece - History. --- Group identity - Rome - History. --- Rome - Civilization. --- Social values - Greece. --- Social values - Rome. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Values --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Philosophy --- E-books --- Social values - Greece --- Social values - Rome --- Group identity - Greece - History --- Group identity - Rome - History --- Rome - Civilization