Social Development In Taiwan Research Articles

Welfare regime and labour migration policy for elderly care: new phase of social development in Taiwan

Unique aspect of elder care in Taiwan is the existence of large number of migrant care workers in the informal labour market before the formation of universal welfare provision. The migrants were introduced in the 1990s, as part of the labour policy to increase more women into the labour market. The democratisation has led to the expansion of welfare state but the issue of labour migration and the human rights of the migrants were set aside. Although migrants share proportionate amount of care work, they are segregated in the informal labour market. The paper examines the recent developments in Taiwan’s welfare state, including its effort to formalise care, and highlight the issue of migrant care workers within the familialistic welfare regime.

Using Social Quality as a Framework for Analyzing Social Development in Taiwan

This study applies social quality framework to analyze the current social development of Taiwan by utilizing governmental database as secondary dataset and using meta-analysis as further check in data collection. This study found that the social development of current Taiwan society basically keeps progressing along with requirements and indicators of social quality. Among them, Taiwan’s performance of social development in dimension of social economic security goes best. And in social inclusion and social empowerment dimensions, the indicators obviously show much progressive. However, the biggest room for further improvement and development is in social cohesion.

Grassroots Elections in Taiwan: Origin, Reform and Its Controversy

Taiwan’s rural grassroots election has been held for more than 50 years, accumulated wealthy experience, not only promoted the transformation of the Kuomintang, but also promoted the local social development in Taiwan. Taiwan’s academics focus on the high cost of elections, local factions, black gold politics and parties an political interference which was influenced the grassroots selections. From “Problem-solving” to “Select System” is a good path of reform option sin grassroots selections.

Are you Healthy and Happy? Does Sport Participation Matter?

The aim of this study was to explore the influence of sport participation during free time upon the perceived health and happiness of a large sample of Taiwanese citizens, using secondary data from the Taiwan Social Development Trend Survey conducted in 2004. Time spent in sport participation, perceived health and perceived data were analyzed using t-tests, correlations, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis. The results indicate that sport participation time (SPT), perceived health and perceived happiness are differently correlated for groups at six life stages. The relationship between sport participation time and happiness is stronger than that between SPT and health. In the six life stages, the relationship between sport participation and happiness is more positive for the ‘young’ and ‘elderly’ groups than for the ‘middle-aged’.

The Silenced Technology—the Beauty and Sorrow of Reassembled Cars

Reassembled cars can be seen everywhere in Taiwan. In the past few decades, the government has repeatedly clamped down on them. It has also taken measures such as negative persuasion, technical requirements, alienation, phaseout, and developed standard agricultural vehicles to eradicate reassembled cars. But they are able to take advantage of the social context and rationalize their existence. Reassembled cars have not only gained support or sympathy but also overturned the conventional concept of safety, which allows them to fight against official clampdown. To compete against mass-manufactured vehicles, their best strategy is to respond to the circumstances of Taiwan's rural area and offer the best solution. Their external advantages include their services, adaptability to all kinds of environments, not to mention that they are license-free and tax-free. Internal advantages include their safety, low prices, and flexibility in production and use, thanks to the collaborated network consisting of salvage yards and reassembled car makers. By making good use of all the aforementioned advantages and following Taiwan's social development, reassembled cars have gained a competitive niche that has failed the clampdown actions over and over again. But most importantly, they have supported Taiwan's economic development in many sectors.

Taiwan's Social Development in an Age of Uncertainty

Abstract After the mid-1990s, both global and Taiwan's domestic economic conditions have brought about unprecedented changes. It is no longer an easy task for Taiwan to maintain the high level of economic development as before. With the deteriorating economic situations, Taiwan also faces new social problems such as increasing unemployment rates. This paper will examine Taiwan's main economic problems and their effects problems on social development. Policy discussions on government actions for tackling new social problems as well as future directions for social welfare development in Taiwan also will be presented.

Parental Values and Practices Relevant to Young Children’s Social Development in Taiwan and the United States

Self-reported parental values and child-rearing practices, and teacher-reported and observed children’s social skills, were compared among families of 40 preschool and kindergarten children in each of three cultural groups: Chinese in Taiwan, first-generation Chinese in the United States, and European Americans in the United States. As expected, both samples of Chinese parents more strongly endorsed traditional Chinese values and exerted more parental control over their children than did American parents. Observations of child social competence during a videotaped family interaction revealed no significant differences among the three ethnic groups. Ratings of parental directiveness and warmth during the videotaped family interaction showed that Chinese American parents, as compared to European American parents, were rated as significantly more directive but equally warm.