Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan

Tang, Denise Tse-Shang; Khor, Diana; Chen, Yi-Chien

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“…For example, co-authors of the article "Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships" Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Yi Chien Chen, Diana Khor are sure, that "Despite the variations in the structure and practice of kin relations, same-sex unions cannot be detached from the kinship institution. Our study points to a different perspective on same-sex marriage that goes beyond the binary of assimilation to/dismantling of the heterosexual marriage institution by attending to the structural and symbolic significance of the family and community" (Tang et al, 2020). As Gilding noted, the sociology of personal life there is nowadays a tendency to overemphasise the deinstitutionalisation of family "over and above convention" (2010).…”

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confidence: 86%

A Family Without Marriage - Marriage Without a Family: The Transition of the Institutional Foundations of the Family and Diversification of Social Reality

Yatsyna

2020

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This article explains the relationship between practices of marriage and family partnership and fatherhood and discursive self-referential identities. Self-reference of identity is considered as a way of self-expression of one's personality in interpersonal relationships. The task is to comprehend the post-modern filling content of the studied practices, where the discursive of the selfreferential identity plays a key role. The above, according to the author, allows to explain the social transition of the institutional foundations of the family and the diversification of social reality. The practices of marital and family partnership and parenthood reproduce the intentional meaningful motives of the subjects of practice and reveal the distinctive identities in them. According to the results of the analysis, there is a multidimensionality of studies, which proves the importance of clarifying both the reasons for their transformation and the social effect of their transformations. The "grounded theory" method was chosen to comprehend and select the tools for cognizing the studied practices as objects of analysis. The expediency of choosing a method is argued by the fact that data on nuclear categories are structured and elements that fit the goals of theoretical validation are built. A description of explicit models of self-referential identities is given, the functioning of which in the studied practices indicates the destruction of normativity. The essence of the transition of the institutional foundations of the family and the diversification of social reality is revealed. It is concluded that the paradigmatic transformation of the practice of marriage and family partnership and paternity significantly affects the structuring of sociality.

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Section: The Purposementioning

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A Family Without Marriage - Marriage Without a Family: The Transition of the Institutional Foundations of the Family and Diversification of Social Reality

Yatsyna

2020

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“…In this context, father involvement in diverse disrupted single-parent, step-, and blended families is a key but understudied area in both non-WEIRD and WEIRD societies (Balachandran & Yeung, 2020). Moreover, with the advancement of reproductive technologies, pathways to fatherhood have become increasingly diverse in Chinese societies (Tang et al, 2020). In addition to traditional pathways such as adoption, sexual minority groups, particularly in Taiwan where same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015, have become more likely to make use of such technologies to become fathers (Jeffreys & Wang, 2018;Tang et al, 2020).…”

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“…Moreover, with the advancement of reproductive technologies, pathways to fatherhood have become increasingly diverse in Chinese societies (Tang et al, 2020). In addition to traditional pathways such as adoption, sexual minority groups, particularly in Taiwan where same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015, have become more likely to make use of such technologies to become fathers (Jeffreys & Wang, 2018;Tang et al, 2020). The development of the global surrogacy industry also means that the diversification of pathways to fatherhood increasingly takes place in a transnational rather than a national context (Twine, 2015).…”

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Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies

Huang

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J of Family Theo & Revie

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Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)-centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies Fatherhood scholarship has made much theoretical progress over the past decades, yet existing models and concepts continue to draw primarily on western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD)-centric assumptions. This review uses demographically sizeable, culturally significant, yet understudied and undertheorized Chinese fathers as an example to reveal the limitations of applying WEIRD-centric perspectives when studying fathering and fatherhood. Specifically, existing models and concepts of fathering and fatherhood, with an emphasis on father involvement, especially in rough-and-tumble play, are predicated on the assumptions of nuclear family and western hegemonic masculinity. The Chinese cultural tradition, in contrast, endorses a literatus masculinity and emphasizes the family lineage, thereby encouraging fathers' educational involvement and

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“…An overview of contemporary research areas included domestic division of labour among lesbians (D. Wong, 2012), elderly gay men (Kong, 2012), lesbian sexualities among migrant workers (Lai, 2018; Sim, 2010), lesbians and urban spaces (Tang, 2011), same‐sex relationship and immigration (Suen, 2019). An emerging trend is to conduct comparative studies on sexualities such as Chinese gay identities in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan (Kong, 2011), same‐sex marriage in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan (Tang et al., 2020), older lesbians in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore (Tang, 2020), transmen in Hong Kong and Thailand. Similar to other research areas, the unique geopolitical position of the city and its relative academic freedom have allowed Hong Kong scholars to study LGBT issues in China (Choi & Luo, 2016; L. Y. L. Kam, 2019; Kong, 2011).…”

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The Production of Contemporary Sociological Knowledge in Hong Kong

Tang¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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This paper explores the development of academic sociology in Hong Kong since the expansion of higher education and increased student enrolment in the nineties. Colleges gained university titles and sociology departments matured as a result. I attempt to trace the current state of sociology in teaching programs and research directions. I conclude with a discussion of future developments with specific reference to the repositioning of Hong Kong within sociology as the former British colony continue to negotiate, navigate and grapple its relationship with Mainland China both as a productive site for sociological research and a reference point to be different in method. | CARPE DIEMIt might have been odd to begin a sociological essay using Horace's phrase "carpe diem" as an opening quote. But if one may indulge in the moment, in the sociological imagination of the day, it is perhaps befitting to understand the development of academic sociology in Hong Kong at this moment as urgent and pertinent. Academic scholarship on the historical development of academic sociology in Hong Kong is scarce. Preliminary search has often pointed to Rance Lee Pui-Leung's articles on the establishment of sociology departments in universities and their differences in approaching the subject matter, along with the research topics of the time. Two publications are particularly useful in summarizing the development of academic sociology from its beginning in the 1950s to early 1990s. The first article by R. P. L. Lee (1987) titled "Sociology in Hong Kong" was published in the journal, International Review of Modern Sociology. A later 1993 paper co-authored by Lee Pui-Leung and Lau Siu-Kai titled "The Birth and Growth of Academic Sociology in Hong Kong" was published by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Both articles provide us with a thorough description and analysis of the historical development of sociology as a discipline in Hong Kong. † I would first like to thank Chen Hon-Fai for his invitation to participate in "Facing the West: Circulation, Cooperation and Contestation in the Post-War

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Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

A Family Without Marriage - Marriage Without a Family: The Transition of the Institutional Foundations of the Family and Diversification of Social Reality

A Family Without Marriage - Marriage Without a Family: The Transition of the Institutional Foundations of the Family and Diversification of Social Reality

Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies

The Production of Contemporary Sociological Knowledge in Hong Kong

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