Resource, development and tradition : explaining persistence and costs of intergenerational marital norms in South Korea
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is comprised of an introduction and three independent papers that explore the themes of change and continuity in patrilineal marriage norms centered on patrilineal descent, patrilocal residence, and generational patriarchy in contemporary South Korea. Western European family with bilateral kinship and nuclear authority structure is taken as the default norm in the sociology of family literature, but extended family systems that embody a sex-generation hierarchy are much more common across the globe. Most extended family systems are based on patrilineality (recognition of descent only through the male links), which in turn is associated with patrilocality (residence with or near husband's kin) and generational patriarchy. Whether and to what extent the patrilineal family system has disintegrated or stayed resilient in the contemporary era is a critical issue to study, as it has important implications for gender inequality in most non-Western contexts. The three papers in this dissertation each address whether and how the traditionally patrilineal family system based on East Asian Confucianism has changed through the recent modernization processes in the context of South Korea. Collectively the findings demonstrate that although some features of the patrilineal family such as patrilocality have shifted towards bilateralism as a result of urbanization and the growing importance of economic resources, other structural aspects such as generational patriarchy and state support of the patrilineal family structure are not necessarily tied to economic development, and thus continue to be reproduced even after Korea has reached the economic status of a developed country. The findings have theoretical implications for studying family structure, economic development and gender inequality in other contexts with a patrilineal family system beyond Korea and East Asia.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kim, Soomin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Shin, Gi-Wook |
| Degree committee member | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Degree committee member | Shin, Gi-Wook |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Soomin Kim. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Soomin Kim
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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