{"id":9665,"date":"2011-03-09T19:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T10:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/?p=9665"},"modified":"2020-03-14T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:25:30","slug":"fy2011iv-5yanagisawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/en\/fy2011iv-5yanagisawa\/","title":{"rendered":"IV-5.”Comparative Study of Rural Social Structure in Asia: Interplay between Community, State Authority and Development Policy”(H22-23 FY2010-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
In order to compare rural social structures in various parts of Asia, this project in the fiscal year of 2011 will focus on the following aspects,
\n1) human capital of local government,
\n2) amount of direct tax, taxable persons, and taxation formulas by local governments,
\n3) managing bodies of small scale infrastructures
\n4) informal monetary social structures
\n\t5) formal monetary services<\/p>\n
Through analyzing the points mentioned above, we will find region-specific features of rural social structures in Asia and their recent transformations.<\/p>\n
Rural societies in various parts of Asia, based on their \u2018prototypes\u2019 formulated in their long historical process have recently experienced a large transformation through rapid economic development, urbanization the progress of aging, and so forth. In East Asia, the prototype of \u2018peasant society\u2019 (tight community formed by peasants) established in the pre-modern era, brought about hardworking habits among people and even affected the organizational structure of modern non-agricultural enterprises, and thus had decisive power to determine the identical historical development paths different from Western countries. In South Asia, the question of how the prototype of \u2018job and entitlement distributional\u2019 in rural society based on castes is transforming, is now receiving much attention in amidst rapid economic development and urbanization. In Southeast Asia \u2018open\u2019 and \u2018loosely structured\u2019 rural societies were formed in small population situations, and are now slowly changing under decentralization policies and rural development policies. This project will focus on the five aspects mentioned above as well as other specific topics in each region, and find region-specific features of rural social structures in Asia and their recent transformations.<\/p>\n