Fragmentation versus Symbiosis between Natives and Immigrants in Local Communities : Analyzing the Dynamics of Social Class and Ethnicity

Kyungju Kim

doi:10.21562/kjs.2021.11.55.4.71

Fragmentation versus Symbiosis between Natives and Immigrants in Local Communities : Analyzing the Dynamics of Social Class and Ethnicity

Korean Journal of Sociology ◽

10.21562/kjs.2021.11.55.4.71 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 71-117

Author(s):

Kyungju Kim

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Local Communities

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Exploring the Determinants of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Its Impact on Local Communities

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211057127 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 215824402110571

Author(s):

Nadeem Akhtar ◽

Hidayat Ullah Khan ◽

Muhammad Asif Jan ◽

Cornelius B. Pratt ◽

Ma Jianfu

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Public Support ◽

Well Being ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Development Project ◽

Local Communities ◽

University Education ◽

Highly Educated ◽

High Level ◽

The Impact

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a major development project in China’s fast-evolving Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is arguably the most comprehensive of the six BRI economic and infrastructure corridors on land. For Pakistan, it is perceived “as the harbinger of a new era of connectivity and integration” that will not only transform the region’s economic development but also the well-being of Pakistanis. It investigates the impact of CPEC as perceived by the local communities in its ZoI. It also evaluates CPEC’s potential challenges: public support and local communities’ concerns such as their awareness, acceptance, and ownership of CPEC. To accomplish our research objectives, we analyze original microdata from 1,585 respondents living proximate to propose CPEC route(s) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. After aggregating the data on the basis of age, education, income, and social status, we conduct descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses in an attempt to answer three research questions. We find significantly high level of awareness of CPEC across the board in the older age group of respondents (i.e., 40 years or older), hereinafter referred to as mature, highly educated, that is, respondents with university education. Older respondents expect more environmental and economic benefits than younger respondents, even as the latter expect lower social change and effect on migration than do the former. However, those in the upper social class expect higher economic and political benefits from CPEC, compared with those in the lower social class—an early indication of possible elite capture.

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The Rise and Decline of Soviet Morality: Culture, Ideology, Collective Practices

Changing Societies & Personalities ◽

10.15826/csp.2020.4.3.106 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 372

Author(s):

Victor S. Martianov ◽

Leonid G. Fishman

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Local Communities ◽

Political Order ◽

Social Regulation ◽

Soviet Society ◽

Big Society ◽

Universal Values ◽

Soviet Ideology ◽

Legitimation Problem

In the article, it is proposed that the collapse of Soviet society was presaged by a growing crisis in late Soviet morality. On the periphery of late Soviet morality, collective cultural practices are seen to have successfully functioned based on a limited ethics of virtue. In the absence of an alternative to Soviet ideology, social regulation started to draw upon values intended for the reproduction of local communities. A growing contradiction between the limited values of the new social class/corporate entities and the need to develop universal values for a big society is currently the key ideological legitimation problem facing the Russian political order.

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