From kiasu to kiasi : the workings of a social habitus in post-independence Singapore

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tan, Josiah Zhi Xian
• مؤلفون آخرون: Michael Stanley-Baker
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• الموضوعات: Humanities::History
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155958

Today, bring up the terms “kiasu” and “kiasi” and it can be said that no Singaporeans could deny association or affiliations to this said mentality. Borrowing the sociological theories of the field and the habitus, this thesis argues that the Singaporean state during this 1980s saw the necessity for...