{"id":19478,"date":"2026-03-30T01:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=19478"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:51:47","slug":"social-value-survey-in-asian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/social-value-survey-in-asian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Value Survey in Asian Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;19479&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Authors: <\/strong>Jungwon Huh, Woo Jin Shim, Dubey Abhisheka, Sungjin Park<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> Feb <strong>\/ <\/strong>2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:\u00a0<\/strong>Zininzin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"678a7e7b-8959-4223-a2cd-6e6905680256\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"836\">Values are not merely matters of personal taste or abstract belief. Questions such as what counts as fairness, what constitutes a good life, how family, the state, the market, and democracy should be evaluated, and how far one can trust others and the community function as the language through which social conflicts and policy choices are articulated. In particular, the deepening inequality, growing precarity of life, declining birthrates and crises of care, increasing migration and multicultural contact, and widening generational political divides experienced simultaneously across Asian megacities often surface in the form of \u201cvalues,\u201d and are justified in different ways. Value surveys, therefore, provide comparative material that reveals how contemporary societies explain themselves through particular norms and sentiments.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1647\">Changes in Asia are often narrated at the national level, yet the speed and density of these transformations are most intensely condensed in large cities. Population mobility, the restructuring of housing and labor, educational competition and class stratification, the expanding networks of digital media, and changing norms surrounding family and intimacy are experienced most directly in urban everyday life. Cities are the sites where institutions are implemented and where values collide; they are \u201claboratories of values\u201d in which different classes, generations, genders, and migration experiences intersect. Comparative research on megacities thus reveals heterogeneity that national averages tend to obscure, allowing us to capture the diversity and contemporaneity within Asia with greater precision.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"2482\">This book is based on data from the Asian Megacity Values Survey, conducted by the Data Storytelling Cluster of the Mega-Asia Research Project at SNUAC. Rather than presenting a single indicator or a definitive conclusion from the outset, the book is structured around more than 200 charts so that readers can follow their own paths of comparison and reconstruct the value landscapes of each city. Here, charts are not \u201cconclusions\u201d but \u201csentences.\u201d Each chart forms the minimal unit of narration that generates questions, enables comparison, and stimulates discussion. Data storytelling is not about turning numbers into stories; it is about translating the structure of differences contained in numbers into forms that readers can understand. This book is the result of that translation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2484\" data-end=\"3128\">At the same time, it is important to clarify what this book aims\u2014and does not aim\u2014to do. We do not rank cities. The book is designed to reveal patterns, not hierarchies. Differences in values are not immediately reduced to notions of superiority or inferiority, nor do we assume cultural essentialism or fixed urban characteristics. The same response distribution may emerge from entirely different institutional experiences and living conditions across cities, and similar averages may conceal very different internal distributions\u2014such as the expansion of extremes, the shrinking of the middle, or distinct directions of polarization.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3130\" data-end=\"3324\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Comparison is not only an academic method but also a social skill for understanding one another more precisely. We hope that this book will serve as a small contribution to expanding that skill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;19479&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Authors: Jungwon Huh, Woo Jin Shim, Dubey Abhisheka, Sungjin Park Publication Date: Feb \/ 2026 Publisher:\u00a0Zininzin [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Values are not merely matters of personal taste or abstract belief. 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