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Week II:
October 11th and 13th: Lineages and Social Change
Tuesday: Rural development and the New Village Movement.
Thursday: Migration and social change in the 1970s and 1980s. Was it proletarianization?
Discussion Topic (reading summary due)
- How might you apply lessions from South Korea's rural development to a country that is currently preodminantly peasant? Are there lessons for North Korea?
- How does understanding the structure of Korean stem families help us understand the ways the family survival strategies of rural residents changed over the 1980s and 1990s as Korea iindustrialized.
- How did industrialization of the 1970s and 1980s create rural-urban political differences?
Reading: (reading summary due)
- Sorensen, Over the Mountains, chaps 5, 6 and 7.
- Joo-Hee Kim, Dynamics of a Rice Cultivating Village in Korea, 1977-2015 (Seoul National University Press, 2018), chapter 7, "Changes in Family Survival Strategies" pp195-212 (available electronically in UW library).
- Recommended
- Sorensen, "Rural Modernization under the Park Regimes in the 1960s" in Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-79, edited Hyung-A Kim and Clark W. Sorensen (UW Center for Korean Studies) pp145-65 (links posted on UW web site)
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