Товч агуулга:This book diagnoses and analyzes social phenomena that are currently of central concern in East Asia and the world, such as globalization and East Asia, inequality, multiculturalism, social movements, and risk society, from an East Asian perspective. Alternative concepts such as the East Asian community, the Beijing consensus, polarization, multicultural society, transnational movements and global civil society, and multidimensional re-recognition of risk are examined from theoretical or empirical perspectives.