Research Catalog

Title

Singapore : society in transition / edited by Riaz Hassan.

Publication

Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hassan, Riaz, 1937-2022.

Description

xix, 371 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

East Asian social science monographs

Uniform Title

East Asian social science monographs.

Subject

• Ethnology > Singapore
• 74.00 (human) geography: general
• Economic history
• Ethnology
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Gesellschaft
• Singapore > Social conditions
• Singapore > Economic conditions
• Singapore > Politics and government
• Singapore
• Singapur

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [348]-358.

Contents

I. Social structure : core institutions -- The economic system / Lee Soo Ann -- The political system and political change / Chan Heng Chee -- The Singapore bureaucracy and the issues of transition / Seah Chee Meow -- Towards a national educational system / S. Gopinathan -- The Singapore legal system / G.W. Bartholomew -- II. Aspects of Singapore culture -- The cultural logic of Singapore's 'multiracialism' / Geoffrey Benjamin -- A sociolinguistic profile / Eddie C.Y. Kuo -- The language of survival / Shirley Chew -- 'Buddhism' in Singapore / Vivienne Wee -- Patterns of Hinduism / Lawrence A. Babb -- Ethnic outmarriage and socio-cultural organization / Riaz Hassan and Geoffrey Benjamin -- III. Urban habitat -- Planning and land use / Rory Fonseca -- Public housing / Riaz Hassan -- IV. Other aspects of social structure -- The changing socio-demographic profile / Chang Chen-Tung -- Women as a minority group / Aline K. Wong -- The status and role of youth / Tham Seong Chee -- Growth, equity and race / Pang Eng Fong -- Symptoms and syndrome of the developmental process / Riaz Hassan.

ISBN

• 0195803523
• 9780195803525

LCCN

77151870

OCLC

• ocm03107293
• 3107293
• SCSB-8979508

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library