Title | The Quality of Life in Korea [electronic resource] : Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives / edited by Doh Chull Shin, Conrad P. Rutkowski, Chong-Min Park |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0281-2 |
Descript | VI, 537 p. online resource |
The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives -- I. The Transformation of Korean Life -- Demographic Trends and Their Social Implications -- Social Change and Stratification -- Economic Crisis and Its Consequences -- Democratization and Its Consequences -- Stability and Change in Korean Values -- II. Quality of Life Across Life Domains -- Family Structure and Relations -- Religious Influences on Personal and Societal Well-Being -- Health and Health Care -- Educational Attainment and Policy -- Income, Consumption, and Poverty -- Changing Conditions and Quality of Housing -- Crime and Crime Control -- Social Welfare System -- Quality of Local Government and Democratic Citizenship -- Environmental Conditions and Governmental Fiscal Policy -- Media, The Public, and Freedom of the Press -- III. Quality of Life Across Population Groups -- Women in the Workplace: Gender and Wage Differentials -- Quality of Life Among Government Employees -- Value Consensus and Diversity Between Generations and Genders -- Patterns of Family Support and the Quality of Life of the Elderly -- Subjective Weil-Being Among College Students -- IV. The Quality of Korean Life in Comparative Perspective -- Objective Quality of Life in Korea and the OECD Countries -- Subjective Quality of Korean Life in 1981 and 2001