Theses - Sociology: Recent submissions
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Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave in South Korea: Determinants and Aftermaths
While interest in fathers’ uptake of leave is increasing internationally, the extant literature on fathers’ leave primarily documents Western, especially Nordic contexts. Against such a backdrop, my thesis investigates the ... -
Labour Market Dynamics of Self-employment in China: The Interplay of Institutions and Gender
Self-employment has been regarded as a possible means of job creation and economic stimulation by the central government of China. While self-employed individuals acted as the forerunners of private enterprises in the early ... -
Intergenerational Childcare Arrangements in Urban China: Negotiations across Gender, Generations, and Socioeconomic Status
As a result of the economic reforms in the 1980s, publicly funded childcare services for children under three have largely disappeared in contemporary China. This thesis focuses on the intergenerational childcare arrangements ... -
Jumpstart: The Literary Utopia in the Aftermath of the Future
At first glance, the association between utopia and the future is obvious. The rise of the modern time regime in the eighteenth century positioned the future as the realm of the new and the better. This triggered a ...
