Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia

Chang, Kyung‐Sup

doi:10.1163/9789004264359_003

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“…The existence of individualization is empirically verified in numerous studies, which show that the ways in which the individual deals with individualization may vary among different societies and social groups and across gender lines (e.g., Blossfeld, Buchholz, and Hofacker, 2009;Botterill, 2014;Chang, 2014;Hansen and Pang, 2010;Yan, 2012). However, the existing studies are carried out either through quantitative approaches, which reveal patterns but not causes, or only in certain specific contexts, neglecting social and cultural and, to some extent, nonurban contexts (with a few exceptions, e.g., Pang, 2010, Yan, 2016).…”

Section: Individualization Mobility and Family Tiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“Roots with Wings”: Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process

Feng

2023

Modern China

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This article looks at the impacts of mobility on individuals and their family ties in tourist destination communities, paying attention to the individualization process among the rural, ethnic minority population in contemporary China. Based on my decade-long ethnography in Fenghuang county, Hunan province, I explore how the rapid rise of tourism-induced mobility has brought individual autonomy and collective morality under constant negotiation among previously clan-based people, and what the course and consequences of ongoing individualization are for the non-Han population in China. I argue that individuals’ greater mobility may enhance, rather than diminish, the importance of family, and that this is especially true for the rural, ethnic minority population in China. Their experience of dealing with individualization also reveals that the effect of social structure is to some extent unchanged, representing a case of “embedded individualization.”

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Section: Individualization Mobility and Family Tiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“Roots with Wings”: Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process

Feng

2023

Modern China

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“…When driven to the extreme, East Asians may even completely forgo mating by remaining single and childless (Chang, 2014;Cheng, 2020;Raymo, Park, Xie, & Yeung, 2015). East Asian individuals increasingly report being too busy to socialize, comfortable with singlehood, and disinterested in dating (Ghaznavi et al, 2020;Pei & Ho, 2009;Wang & Jiang, 2016).…”

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When social status gets in the way of reproduction in modern settings: An evolutionary mismatch perspective

Yong

Lim²,

2024

CultEv

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Low fertility is a growing concern in modern societies. While economic and structural explanations of reproductive hindrances have been informative to some extent, they do not address the fundamental motives that underlie reproductive decisions and are inadequate to explain why East Asian countries, in particular, have such low fertility rates. The current paper advances a novel account of low fertility in modern contexts by describing how modern environments produce a mismatch between our evolved mechanisms and the inputs they were designed to process, leading to preoccupations with social status that get in the way of mating and reproductive outcomes. We also utilize developed East Asian countries as a case study to further highlight how culture may interact with modern features to produce ultralow fertility, sometimes to the extent that people may give up on parenthood or even mating altogether. Through our analysis, we integrate several lines of separate research, elucidate the fundamental dynamics that drive trade-offs between social status and reproductive effort, add to the growing literature on evolutionary mismatch, and provide an improved account of low fertility in modern contexts.

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“…Some researchers call the current state of family and marriage relations a crisis, as more and more people favour nontraditional families. Thus, K. Chang admits that in developed Eastern countries, the family is going through a phase of decline due to the individualisation of the community, linking this process with the dynamic restructuring of society [1]. Extensive research has been conducted within the framework of the "New Family Structure Study" in same-sex parental relationships and their role in stabilising the family phenomenon.…”

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Compliance of the Goals of Modern Family Policy with the Development Processes of the Modern Family

Ignatyeva¹,

Bukhalova²

2022

Proceedings of the IX International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Problems of Social and Labour Relations" (ISPC

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The article analyses the legislation of the Russian Federation and several developed countries in the field of marital and family relations, as well as the goals and directions of the development of the social institution of the family within the framework of strategies and concepts approved by the state. The article presents data and opinions of researchers on the current state and forms of family relations. Hypotheses about the crisis of traditional family relations, nuclearisation and atomisation of the family are considered. The authors conclude that the attempts made to correlate the goals of state demographic and economic policy with the achievement of social justice are not effective in the absence of a full-fledged and functioning set of mechanisms for supporting the family institution in legislative and executive practice, taking into account the trends existing in society to abandon the accepted understanding of the family.

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Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia

Cited by 8 publications

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“Roots with Wings”: Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process

“Roots with Wings”: Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process

When social status gets in the way of reproduction in modern settings: An evolutionary mismatch perspective

Compliance of the Goals of Modern Family Policy with the Development Processes of the Modern Family

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