Typology of Asian Societies: Bottom-Up Perspective and Evidence-Based Approach

by Takashi Inoguchi

Book Overview

This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals' satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis. It adopts an evidence-based approach in typologizing and a bottom-up rather than a top-down perspective. Thus, the book's position is against Hegel (freedom for one person), Marx (the Asiatic mode of production), Weber (Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism), Wittfogel (Asiatic autocracy),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811954682
• ISBN13: 9789811954689
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"