Political Implications of Confucian Familism

Rappa, Anthonio; Tan, Sor‐hoon

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“…A value system that is often cited as the core element of Korean culture and families is familism (K.-S. Chang, 2009Chang, , 2010Ok, 2011). In general, familism refers to a familycentered worldview (Rappa & Tan, 2003) and is defined as ''a form of social organization in which the interests of the individual are subordinated to those of the family group'' (Heller, 1970, p. 73). Familism prioritizes the family as a group and can be understood as a type of collectivism that also focuses on other groups, such as the community, society, or nation (Killian & Ganong, 2002;Yang & Rettig, 2003).…”

Section: Familism Bilateralization and Intergenerational Supportmentioning

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Motivations for Providing and Utilizing Child Care by Grandmothers in South Korea

Lee

Bauer

2013

J of Marriage and Family

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The purpose of this study was to construct a conceptual understanding of the motivations of grandmothers and mothers to provide and utilize child care by grandmothers in Korea. Grounded theory methods were used to collect and analyze interview data with 21 matched pairs of caregiving grandmothers and employed mothers. The grandmothers' motivations were concern for their adult children's well‐being and a feeling of responsibility to fulfill their parental responsibility for support. The mothers' motivations were the benefits they received as employed mothers and their trust of family care with prior expectations of the grandmothers' support. The core category integrating the findings was bilateral familism supporting traditional gender role ideology. The results suggest that changes from patrilineal to bilateral kinship interactions have been largely based on the influence of familism, which has created a cultural setting of expectations for downstream intergenerational support to maintain traditional gender roles despite increased maternal employment.

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Section: Familism Bilateralization and Intergenerational Supportmentioning

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Motivations for Providing and Utilizing Child Care by Grandmothers in South Korea

Lee

Bauer

2013

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Of course, a strong emphasis on the family is hardly peculiar in neo-Confucianism, since "Confucian familism" (Rappa and Tan 2003) is the defining characteristic of Confucianism. LIU Qingping even argues, though somewhat controversially, that original Confucianism is essentially "consanguinitism" (Liu 2003).…”

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“…Or, we can imagine, the family and filial piety excuse was judiciously utilized by the Confucian scholarofficial who was not willing to serve the incumbent king, because "not serving" could be taken as indicating his view of the ruler a sad case of the Way not prevailing, which was obviously never a safe thing to say.30 Fingarette, Hall and Ames, and Tan agree that ancient Confucian virtues were social/relational virtues unadulterated with transcendental metaphysics (seeFingarette 1972, Hall and Ames 1987, and Tan 2003.…”

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Trouble with Korean Confucianism: Scholar-Official Between Ideal and Reality

Kim

2009

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This essay attempts a philosophical reflection of the Confucian ideal of "scholarofficial" in Joseon Korea's neo-Confucian context. It explores why this noble ideal of a Confucian public being had to suffer many moral-political problems in reality. It argues first that because the institution of Confucian scholar-official was actually a modus-operandi compromise between Confucianism and Legalism, the Confucian scholar-officials were torn between their ethical commitment to Confucianism and their political commitment to the state; and second, that because the Cheng-Zhu neo-Confucianism vigorously imported and indigenized by Joseon Koreans exalted the family over the state, Joseon neo-Confucian scholar-officials were torn between two competing moral obligations, filiality and loyalty. The essay concludes by discussing whether, given the problems with which the ideal of the Confucian scholar-official was frequently entangled, liberal individualism should be pursued as its normative alternative.

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“…Within the ecological/exchange framework, cultural value orientations guide certain expectations about how marriages are structured, experienced, and evaluated in a given society. For example, collectivistic values in Korea are manifested in an emphasis on familism, which refers to a family-centered worldview (Rappa & Tan, 2003).…”

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Toward a Culturally Robust Measure to Assess Marital Relationships

Lee

2020

Journal of Family Issues

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Despite the increased use of measures developed in the United States in countries with different cultural value orientations, researchers often do not examine whether scales show invariance across cultures. The goal of this study was to discuss the importance of measurement invariance when conducting research with cultural groups that differ from U.S. populations. As an illustration of this issue, the Marital Comparison Level Index (MCLI; Sabatelli, 1984 ) was revised in a culturally relevant way to be used to study Korean couples and the measurement properties of the scale was explored in samples drawn from the United States and Korea ( N = 676). Results showed that there was a second-order factor, which is marital complaints, that underlies the five first-order factors (i.e., emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, marital conflicts, intergenerational relationships, and complaints about partner’s lifestyle). The identified second-order factor structure showed an adequate level of measurement invariance, indicating the potential for using the measure to examine marital issues within and between couples from these two countries. Taken together, the present study serves as an impetus for international scholarship that could promote cultural and racial diversity in relationship research.

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Political Implications of Confucian Familism

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Motivations for Providing and Utilizing Child Care by Grandmothers in South Korea

Motivations for Providing and Utilizing Child Care by Grandmothers in South Korea

Trouble with Korean Confucianism: Scholar-Official Between Ideal and Reality

Toward a Culturally Robust Measure to Assess Marital Relationships

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