A Study on the Development of a Scale for Family Value of East Asia

Ahn, SeungJae; HongBaegEui,; 은석,

doi:10.16975/kjfsw.2018..60.003

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“…In contrast, the results from Chinese respondents indicate a patrilineal extended family perception in which the father's father (53.7%), father's mother (50.8%) and father's brother (35%) are much more highly perceived as family than the mother's mother (39.1%) and mother's father (36.9%). There is a conflict between the explanation that China's patrilineal characteristics are due to the influence of Confucian culture (Hu & Scott, 2016) and the perspective that it is due to the influence of the socialist period (Davis, 1989, An et al, 2018). Hu and Scott (2016), who analyzed the China General Social Survey conducted in 2006, pointed out that filial piety is still an important concept for Chinese people.…”

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“…Daughters were married off and sons lived with the family during this era (Davis, 1989). An et al (2018), who compared the family values of East Asian countries, also pointed out that while Chinese people have strong concepts of filial piety, they also have the strongest values of gender equality. That is, while it is true that Chinese people show patrilineal tendencies, it is necessary to be cautious about attributing this entirely to Confucian influence.…”

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Who is my family?: A comparative study of the family boundary in East Asia

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2023

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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This article is a comparative research to examine the family perceptions of Koreans, Chinese and Japanese. The family, a human relationship formed by blood ties, has been regarded as a basic unit of social organization which protects and reproduces its members based on love and intimacy. Despite the similarity in blood ties, however, the interaction between the array of social institutions and individuals makes differences in the perception and function of the family in each country.Many scholars have treated East Asia as a 'Confucian family-centred' society. They predict that East Asia would have paternalistic, patriarchal and extended family characteristics influenced by Confucianism. However, little empirical analysis has been done on whether East Asia possesses such common characteristics. This paper is an attempt to verify whether or not this perception is valid by analyzing and comparing the perception of family boundaries of the people in Korea, China and Japan 1 . An individual's perception of family would be affected by the individual's idiosyncratic experience as well as the common culture of a society as a form of family ideology. For these reasons, it is possible that individuals in the same society have different family perceptions based on their own experiences. In addition, individuals with similar backgrounds may have different family perceptions depending on the state's array of social institutions such as pension, eldercare/childcare, and female labour market participation. Because East Asian countries have experienced different pathways of modernisation or post-modernisation, their family experiences may have been formed in different ways. The standard life-course

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