Lih-Rong Wang

　　This book has invited scholars from UK, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong to address the social quality reality in Taiwan and South Korea. The main themes and discussion in this book include 4 dimensions of social economic security, social inclusion, social cohesion and social empowerment. Taiwan and South Korea has been advocated as “developmental welfare state” and recognized as 2 of 4 dragons in Asia with similar track in social and economic development in last few decades. It is very precious to see that book has its focus on unique investigation as stated above in two societies. More importantly, most of the chapters are written mainly based on the utilization of social quality theories and using the data derived from the same questionnaires (by different languages) and investigation done in two countries. And the book by using comparative study method and scientifically -based data to address the similarities and difference between Taiwan and South Korea in societal situation and trend is quite unique as well. Finally, the main content is highly consistent in addressing the social/political/economic and well-being of these societies with social policy implication, which is the strength of this book in particular

作者簡介

Byong-Hee Cho

　　Professor of School of Public Health, Seoul National University
 
Cherng-tay James Hsueh（薛承泰）

　　Professor of the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
 
David Fu-Keung Ip（葉富強）

　　Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
 
Jin-Ho Jang

　　Assistant Professor of the School of General Studies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
 
Sangchul Jang

　　Ph.D. in Sociology, Yonsei University
 
Bih-Hearn Virginia Lee（李碧涵）

　　Professor of the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University
 
Chao-Yin Lin（林昭吟）

　　Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work, National Taipei University
 
Eun Young Nam

　　Senior researcher of Seoul National University Asia Center
 
Shih-Jiun Shi（施世駿）

　　Associate Professor of the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University
 
Alan Walker

　　Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield
 
Lih-Rong Wang（王麗容）

　　Professor of Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University
 
Yun-Tung Wang（王雲東）

　　Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work,  National Taiwan University