Table of Contents

Contents


Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Figures and Tables


Notes on Contributors





Introduction: Post-Western Sociology


 Laurence Roulleau-Berger





part 1: Post-Western Social Sciences: From East Asia to Europe


section 1: Toward Post-Western Social Sciences


1 Toward Post-Western Sociology


 Laurence Roulleau-Berger





2 The Emergence and Characteristics of Chinese Sociology


 Li Peilin





3 What Are Post-Western Sociologies?


 Xie Lizhong





4 The Oneness Logic: Toward an East Asian General Theory


 Kim Seung Kuk





5 To Create a Post-Western Sociology: A Brief Sketch of Japanese Sociology


 Yazawa Shujiro





section 2: Non-hegemonic Traditions and Pluralism in Asian Social Sciences


6 Chinese Sociology: Traditions and Dialogues – Localized Knowledge Production as Post-Western Sociology


 Li Youmei





7 Development of Sociological Thought in the Early Modern Period of Japan


 Yama Yoshiyuki





8 Sociological Sinicization: A Chinese Effort in Post-Western Sociology


 Zhou Xiaohong and Feng Zhuqin





9 Proposing a Global Sociology Based on Japanese Theories


 Shoji Kōkichi





10 De-Westernization or Re-Easternization: Towards Post-Western Conceptualization and Theorization in the Sociology of Korea


 Lim Hyun-Chin





11 Cosmopolitan Sociology: A Significant Step But Not the Final Task for Post-Western Sociology


 Kim Mun Cho





section 3: Heritages and “Re-Asiatization” of Social Sciences


12 Chinese Economic Sociology: From the Perspective of Post-Western Sociology


 Yang Dian





13 Thirty Years of Labor Sociology in China


 Shen Yuan





14 Voice of the Dead: Hibakusha Collective Memory against the Western Ethos


 Nomiya Daishiro





15 COVID-19 and Hegemonic Modernity: Post-Western Sociological Imaginations


 Han Sang-Jin





16 Wanderers and the Settled: Perspectives of Kunio Yanagita and Kazuko Tsurumi on Social Change


 Okumura Takashi





section 4: Epistemic Autonomies and Located Knowledge


17 Case Studies towards the Analysis of Total Social Construction


 Qu Jingdong





18 Risk Governance, Publicness, and the Quality of the Social


 Yee Jaeyeol





19 The Korean Wave as a Glocal Cultural Phenomenon: Addressing the New Trends in Korean Studies


 Jang Wonho





20 Development of Critical Theory Based on the Analysis of Literary Works on Tenderness: Habermas’s Thesis and Akira Kurihara’s Work


 Deguchi Takeshi





21 From Social Equilibrium to Self-Production of Society: The Transition of China’s Sociological Recognition on China’s Society


 Sun Feiyu





22 Sociology without Society: The Dreyfus Affair, the Taigyaku Affair, and the Sociology of Life


 Kikutani Kazuhiro





23 Weber “Fever” in China (1980–2020): Scholarly Communication and Discipline Construction


 He Rong





Part 2: Translation and Ecologies of Knowledge: Dialogues East–West


Section 5: Globalization and Social Classes


24 Wealthization and Housing Wealth Inequality in China


 Li Chunling





25 Squeezing the Western Middle Class: Precarization, Uncertainty and Tensions of Median Socioeconomic Groups in the Global North


 Louis Chauvel





26 A New Approach to Social Inequality: Inequality of Income and Wealth


 Shin Kwang-Yeong





27 Globalization and Social Inequality in the Context of Japan


 Sato Yoshimichi





Section 6: Youth and Education


28 Educational Expansion and Its Impacts on Youth in Transitional China


 Wu Yuxiao





29 Exploring Educational Institutions’ Major Roles and Norms to Understand Their Effects: The Example of France


 Agnès van Zanten





30 Youth and Transition from School to Work in Japan


 Asano Tomohiko





31 Education as an Institution and a Practice: Issues and Perspectives in Korean Sociology


 Kim Byoung-Kwan





Section 7: State and Governance


32 Urban Renewal, Urban Restructuring: The City as Inescapable Western Representation


 Agnès Deboulet





33 State and Society in Urban Renewal and Social Governance


 Shi Yunqing





34 The State, Civil Society, and Citizens through Local Governance in Japan


 Yamamoto Hidehiro





Section 8: Ethnicity and Space


35 The Border of Ethnicity Worlds


 Ahmed Boubeker





36 Ethnicity, Space, and Boundary-Making among the Hui in Nanjing


 Fan Ke





37 Considering Super-diversity in Immigration: Post-Western Sociology and the Japanese Case


 Tarumoto Hideki





38 Spatial Confinement of Migrant Workers in Korea


 Choi Jongryul





Section 9: Social Movements and Collective Action


39 Contributions of Japanese Environmental Sociology in Non-Western Contexts


 Hasegawa Koichi





40 Social Movements and Collective Action


 Lilian Mathieu





41 State’s Temperament and the Control of Collective Action in Contemporary China


 Feng Shizheng





Section 10: Gender and Inequalities


42 Gender and Inequalities in France


 Christine Détrez





43 Changing Gender Dynamics and Family Reinstitutionalization in Contemporary China


 Ji Yingchun





44 Revisiting Comparative Frameworks and Gender Inequality in Japan


 Nemoto Kumiko





45 Two Contradictory Trends in Korea in the COVID-19 Era: “Condensed Radicalization of Individualization” and “Community Orientation”


 Shim Young-Hee





Section 11: Environment and Mistrust Crisis


46 How Ecological Civilization Contributes to Post-Western Sociology


 Wang Xiaoyi and Anier





47 The Post-Western Anthropocene


 Paul Jobin





48 East Asian Compressed Ecological Modernization: Modus of Developmental State and Technological Response to the Environmental Crisis


 Satoh Keiichi





49 The Legacy of the Developmental State and the Rise of Fragmented Green Growth


 Hong Deokhwa and Ku Dowan





Section 12: Individuation, Self, and Emotions


50 Management, Experience, and Performance: Emotional Regimes in Contemporary Society


 Cheng Boqing and Wang Jiahui





51 The Individual and Society: The End of an Alliance and the Burden of Emotions


 François Dubet





52 From the Deepest Dimension to Society


 Yazawa Shujiro





53 Emotions of Fear, Anger, and Disgust in Contemporary Korean Society


 Kim Wang-Bae





Section 13: Cities, Migration, and Work


54 Beyond “Post-Western” Urban Studies


 Machimura Takashi





55 Sociology of Migration and Post-Western Knowledge


 Laurence Roulleau-Berger





56 Social Integration of China’s Floating Population


 Wang Chunguang and Lu Wen





Section 14: Global Health and New Future


57 Global Health Challenges and a New Future


 Zhao Yandong and Hong Yanbi





58 East–West Dialogue for Global Health Care Challenges in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond


 Hosoda Miwako





59 Expanding Epidemic Preparedness to Include Population Memory: A Key for Better Epidemic Management


 Frédéric Le Marcis





60 South Korea Has Controlled the COVID-19 Outbreak But Failed to Prepare Accountable Hospitals and Doctors


 Cho Byong-Hee





Conclusion


 Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Li Peilin, Kim Seung Kuk and Yazawa Shujiro





Postface


 Sari Hanafi





Index

About the Author

Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Ph.D. University Lyon 2 (1982) and Ph.D. Supervisor in sociology (2001), is Research Director at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. She has published many books, articles and chapters, including Post-Western Revolution in Sociology. From China to Europe (2016), Young Chinese Migrants, Compressed Individual and Global Condition (2021), and Sociology of Migration and Post-Western Theory, co-edited with Liu Yuzhao (2022).



LI Peilin, Ph.D. University Paris 1 (1987), is Chair Professor of sociology at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Academic member and Director of law, social and political division of CASS. He has published many books, articles and chapters, including in English: Social transformation and Chinese Experience (2017), Urban Village Renovation: The Stories of Yangcheng Village (2020), and Handbook of Social Stratification in the BRIC Countries (co-editor, 2013).



KIM Seung Kuk, Ph.D. Indiana University, is Professor emeritus of Pusan National University. He served as the President of Korean Association of Ocean Sociology, East Asian Sociological Association, Korean Sociological Association, and Korean Society for Social Theory. He has published many books, articles and chapters, including: Toward an Ocean of Hybridisation (2022), Solipsist and Spiritualist Individualism (2018), and The Rise of Hybrid Society and Its Friends (2015). He won the Korean Academy of Sciences Award (2017).



YAZAWA Shujiro is Emeritus Professor of Hitotsubashi University and Seijo University, Tokyo. He served as the President of Japan Sociological Society and is the President of East Asian Sociological Association. He has published many books, articles and chapters, including: Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic Social Science: Beyond the Social Sciences with M.Kuhn (2015), The Frontiers of Reflexive Sociology (2017), and "The Indigenization of American Sociology and Universalization of Japanese Sociology," Journal of History of Sociology (2021).