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Title

Understanding Singapore society / edited by Ong Jin Hui, Tong Chee Kiong, Tan Ern Ser.

Publication

Singapore : Times Academic Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Ong, Jin Hui.
• Tan, Ern Ser
• Tong, Chee Kiong.

Description

xxiv, 608 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Collectively, the essays in the volume paint a comprehensive portrait of the evolving Singapore society through an examination of [1] its fundamental social structure and the sources of social division in terms of class, ethnicity, gender and culture; [2] its basic social institutions - religion, politics, marriage and the family - and their interconnections; and [3] the policies relating to and consequences of its key social, economic and developmental processes - industrialization, urbanization and community development, and demographic changes." "Understanding Singapore Society is geared to a wide audience. For the general readers, it makes available a broad range of sociological writings which would contribute to public discourse on social and cultural issues in Singapore. For students or undergraduates, the collection offers local data and findings from which to understand Singapore society and learn Sociology through examples drawn from the Singapore context. Needless to say, the volume can also serve as a source-book to graduate students and researchers (especially those from other cultures) seeking to build up an understanding of the theoretical perspectives, hypotheses and new ideas generated in the Asian context in general, and Singapore in particular."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Singapore > Economic conditions
• Singapore > Social conditions
• Sociology > Singapore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 562-591) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Structure. Class and stratification. Power elite in Singapore / Peter S.J. Chen -- Planned development, social stratification and the sexual division of labour in Singapore / Aline K. Wong -- Occupational prestige and occupational structure / Chiew Seen Kong, Ko Yiu Chung and Stella R. Quah -- Race and ethnic relations. Cultural logic of Singapore's "multiracialism" / Geoffrey Benjamin -- Socio-cultural framework of politics / Chiew Seen Kong -- Phenomenology of ethnicity: a Singapore case study / Sharon Siddique -- pt. 2. Institutions. Religion and society. Buddhism in Singapore / Vivienne Wee -- Patterns of Hinduism / Lawrence A. Babb -- Adaptation and response: the Christian charismatic renewal / John Clammer -- Rationalization of religion in Singapore / Tong Chee Kiong -- Marriage and the family. Some social concomitants of inter-ethnic marriage in Singapore / Eddie C.Y. Kuo and Riaz Hassan -- Some observations on the study of family change in Singapore / Eddie C.Y. Kuo and Aline K. Wong -- Urban kinship network in Singapore / Aline K. Wong and Eddie C.Y. Kuo -- Social significance of marriage and parenthood in Singapore / Stella R. Quah -- Politics and society. Politics in an administrative state: where has the politics gone? / Chan Heng Chee -- Not depoliticized by ideologically successful: the public housing programme in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- Citizen orientation towards political participation in Singapore / Tan Ern Ser and Chiew Seen Kong -- pt. 3. Processes and policies. Industrialization. Emergence of bureaucratic-authoritarian corporatism in labour relations ; Creating industrial community: towards a corporate paternalist society / Frederic C. Deyo -- International production and social change: an analysis of the state, employment and trade unions in Singapore / Noeleen Heyzer -- Theorizing the dynamics of industrial relations and trade unionism: lessons from the Singapore case / Tan Ern Ser -- Urbanization and community. Territorial patterns among Chinese secret societies in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia: some tentative findings / Mak Lau Fong and Aline K. Wong -- Modernism and the vernacular: transformation of public spaces and social life in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- Dimensions of HDB community / Aline K. Wong, Ooi Giok Ling and Rennis S. Ponniah -- Community security / Ong Jin Hui -- Culture and society. Culture, values and modernization in Singapore: an overview / John Clammer -- Culture and the state: manufacturing traditions for tourism / Leong Wai Teng -- Women and knowledge/power: notes on the Singaporean dilemma / Nirmala Purushotam.

ISBN

9812100520

LCCN

^^^97945801^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library