Singapore, 1965-: Independence & Nation-Building 
Social Life & Conditions

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Alatas, Farid, Syed . Keadaan sosiologi masyarakat Melayu. Singapore: Association of Muslim Professionals, 1997. 50p. An edited translation of a lecture entitled “The state of Malay sociology in Singapore” delivered on 18 November 1995 at the AMP Centre”. [DS599.4 Aso 5/97]

Aljunied, Alwiyah, Sharifah . Minority dilemmas: the Malay community in Singapore. 86p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1991. [HM15 *1991 4]

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Chan, Foong Mun . Foreign maids in Singapore: new forms of an old tradition. 86p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1993. [HM15 *1993 2]

Chan, Jasmine S.;  Chow, Yvonne  & Elliott, John M.  Professional and public perceptions of physical child abuse and neglect in Singapore. Singapore: Singapore Children's Society, 2000. 54p. [HV800.12 Rms 3]

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Chang, Chen Tung ; Ong, Jin Hui & Chen, Peter S. J.  Culture and fertility: the case of Singapore. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1980. 95p. [HB1070.12 Cha]

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Chen, Peter S. J.  & Evers, Hans-Dieter , eds. Studies in ASEAN sociology: urban society and social change. Singapore: Chopmen Enterprises, 1978. 436p. [HN770.2 Che]

Chen, Peter S. J.  & Tai, Ching Ling . Exploratory study of social ecology in Singapore: final report (March 1975 to September 1976). Singapore: Ministry of Science and Technology, 1976. 166p. [HN770.2 Che]

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Cheng, Lim Keak . Patterns of social alignment: a case study of Hakka associations in Singapore. Southeast Asian Studies, 32(4):1-18, 1994. [DS510.7 SAS]

Cheng, Lim Keak . Reflections of the changing roles of Chinese clan associations in Singapore. Asian Culture, 14:57-71, 1990. [DS1 AC]

Cheng, Lim Keak . Social change and the Chinese in Singapore: a socio-economic geography with special reference to bang structure. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1985. 235p. Revision of author’s thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, 1979. [HN770.2 Chn]

Chew, Soo Beng . Fishermen in flats. Clayton, Vic.: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1982. 151p. [HN770.2 Che]

Chew, Soon Beng ; Leu, Mike Gwo Jiun  & Tan, Kim Heng . Values and lifestyles of young Singaporeans. Singapore: Prentice-Hall, 1998. 170p. [HQ799.12 Che]

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Chia, Boon Hock . Suicidal behaviour in Singapore. Tokyo: Southeast Asian Medical Information Center, 1981. 176p. [HV6548.12 Chi]

Chia, Boon Hock . Suicide in Singapore. 264p. Thesis (M.D.) - Faculty of Medicine, University of Singapore, 1980. [RC39 *1976 1]

Chia, Boon Hock . Too young to die: an Asian perspective on youth suicide. Singapore: Times Books International, 1999. 161p. [HV6548.12 Chi]

Chia, Felix . The Babas revisited. Rev. ed. Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1994. 192p. DS599.4 Chi]

Chiew, Seen Kong . Ethnicity, economic development and occupational change in Singapore, 1957-1980. Akademika, 30:73-89, 19987. [H8 A]

Chiew, Seen Kong . From overseas Chinese to Chinese Singaporeans. IN Suryadinata, Leo, ed. Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1997. Pp. 211-227. [DS523.4 Chi.Et]

Chiew, Seen Kong . Singaporean national identity. 227p. Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.) - Dept. of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1972. [HM15 *1972 1]

Chiew, Seen Kong . Social class disparity between Chinese and Malays in Singapore and Malaysia, 1957-1990. IN Lai, Siu-Kai., et al., eds. Inequalities and development: social stratification in Chinese societies. Hong Kong: Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 1994. Pp. 251-279.  Examines the social class attainment of Chinese and Malays in Singapore and peninsular Malaysia in the context of economic development. [HN755.2 Socc.In]

Chiew, Seen Kong . Towards a theory of transition from ethnicity to class: ethnic relations in Singapore. IN Lee, B. H. & Oorjitham, K. S. S., eds. Malaysia and Singapore: experiences in industrialization and urban change. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya, 1993. Pp. 282-304. [DS592 Msf 2]

Chiew, Seen Kong  & Tan, Ern Ser . The Singaporean: ethnicity, national identity and citizenship: Singaporean identity and citizenship. Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies, 1990. 1 vol. [DS599.4 Csk]

Choi, Alfred . The fight against wife beating in Singapore. IN H. M. Dahlan, et al., eds. ASEAN in the global system. Bangi, Selangor: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1997. Pp. 311-321. [HC497 Sou.Asn]

Choi, Alfred  & Lo, T. Wing . Fighting youth crime: success and failure of two little dragons. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 2002. 247p. A comparative study of delinquency and measures to counter it in Hong Kong and Singapore. [HV9215.12 Cho]

Chong, Li Choy . Social planning strategies in Southeast Asia: current approaches to planned development in four nations. 243p. Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.) - Dept. of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1975. [HM15 *1975 2]

Choo, Hui Lin . The ways of Taoism: religious rationalisation and change in Singapore. 128p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1998. [HM15 *1998 11]

Chua, Beng Huat . The attendant consumer society of a developed Singapore. IN Low, L., ed. Singapore: towards a developed status. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 210-225. [DS599.63 Sto]

Chua, Beng Huat . Culture, multiracialism and national identity in Singapore. Singapore: Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1995. 35p. [HM15 Sus 125]

Chua, Beng Huat . Racial-Singaporeans: absence after the hyphen. IN Kahn, J. S., ed. Southeast Asian identities: culture and the politics of representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998. Pp. 28-50. [DS526.7 Sot]

Chua, Beng Huat . Shopping for women’s fashion in Singapore. IN Shields, Rob, ed. Lifestyle shopping: the subject of consumption. London: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 114-135. [HQ2042 Lif]

Chua, Beng Huat. Singaporean’s ingesting McDonald’s. IN Chua, Beng Huat, ed. Consumption in Asia: lifestyles and identities. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. 183-201. [HC415 Con.C]

Chua, Beng Huat . Steps to becoming a fashion consumer in Singapore. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 7:31-48, 1990. [HD28 APJM]

Chua, Beng Huat . That imagined space: nostalgia for the kampungs. IN Yeoh, Brenda S. A. & Kong, Lily, eds. Portraits of places: history, community and identity in Singapore. Singapore: Times Editions, 1995. Pp. 222-241. [DS599.4 Por]

Chua, Beng Huat . World cities, globalisation and the spread of consumerism: a view from Singapore. Urban Studies, 35(5/6):981-1000, 1998. [NA9000 US]

Chua, Beng Huat  & Kuo, Eddie C. Y.  The making of a new nation: cultural construction and national identity in Singapore. Singapore: Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1991. 43p. [HM15 Sus 104]

Chua, Beng Huat  & Rajah, Ananda . Hybridity, ethnicity and food in Singapore. Singapore: Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1997. 29p. [HM15 Sus 133]

Chua, Beng Huat  & Rajah, Ananda . Hybridity, ethnicity and food in Singapore. IN Wu David Y.H. & Tan, Chee-Beng, eds. Changing Chinese foodways in Asia. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2001. Pp. 161-200. [GT2853 Asi.Ch]

Chua, Beng Huat  & Tan, Joo Ean . Singapore: new configuration of a socially stratified culture. Singapore: Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, [1995]. 38p. [HM15 Sus 127]

Chua, Beng Huat  & Tan, Joo Ean.  Singapore: where the new middle class sets the standard. IN Pinches, Michael, ed. Culture and privilege in capitalist Asia. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 137-158. [HB501 Cul]

Chua, Chong Jin . A nation at play: 25 years of the Singapore Sports Council. Singapore: Published for the Singapore Sports Council by Times Editions, 1998. 118p. [GV663.12 Chu]

Chua, Frank M.  Culture of consumption: the emergence of the global market culture in Singapore, 1960-1990. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 2000. 337p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Pennsylvania State University, 1999. [HD30*UMI 348]

Chun, Allen . Discourses of identity in the changing spaces of public culture in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Theory, Culture & Society, 13(1):51-75, Feb. 1996. [H1 TCS]

Clammer, John . Chinese ethnicity and political culture in Singapore. IN Gosling, L. A. Peter & Lim, Linda Y. C., eds. The Chinese in Southeast Asia. Vol. 2. Identity, culture and politics. Singapore: Maruzen Asia, 1983. Pp. 266-284. [DS523.4 Chi.Ci]

Clammer, John . Ethnicity and the classification of social differences on plural societies: a perspective from Singapore. IN Paranjpe, Anand C., ed. Ethnic identities and prejudices: perspectives from the Third World. Leiden: Brill, 1986. Pp. 9-23. [GN496 Eth]

Clammer, John . Framing the other: criminality, social exclusion and social engineering in developing Singapore. Social Policy and Administration, 31(5):136-153, 1997. [HF1 SPA]

Clammer, John . The institutionalization of ethnicity: the culture of ethnicity in Singapore. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 5(2):127-139, 1982. [GN301 ERS]

Clammer, John . Malay society in Singapore: a preliminary analysis. Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 9(1/2): 19-32, 1981. [H8 SAS]

Clammer, John . The politics of memory: rethinking culture and identity. Commentary, 14:40-49, 1997. Examines the issue of memory, culture and identity among Chinese Singaporeans. [DS599.1 C]

Clammer, John . Race and state in independent Singapore, 1965-1990: the cultural politiics of pluralism in a multiethnic society. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1998. 291p. [DS599.4 Cla]

Clammer, John . Religion and society in Singapore: ethnicity, identity and social change. IN Seyschab, C.-A.; Sievers, A. & Szynkiewicz, S., eds. Society, culture and patterns of behaviour. Unkel/Rhein, Germany: Horlemann, 1990. Pp. 157-182. [DS523.2 Soc]

Clammer, John . Singapore: ideology, society, culture. Singapore: Chopmen Publishers, 1985. 169p. [HN770.2 Cla]

Clammer, John . Straits Chinese society: studies in the sociology of the baba communities of Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1980. 168p. [HN770 Cla]

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Davidson, Gillian  & Drakakis-Smith, David . The price of success: disadvantaged groups in Singapore. IN Dixon, C. & Drakakis-Smith, D., eds. Uneven development in South East Asia. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. 75-99. [HC497 Sou.Un]

De Koninck, Rodolphe . Chinese farmers of Singapore: a study in social geography. 331p. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Dept. of Geography, University of Singapore, 1971. [G58 *1971 1]

De Koninck, Rodolphe . Farmers of a city state: the Chinese smallholders of Singapore. Montreal: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, 1975. 125 p. Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.), University of Singapore, 1971. [HD1339.1 Dek]

Deyo, Frederic C.  Imperatives of development and the formulation of social policy: East Aisa's newly industrialized countries. IN Brown, R. H. & Liu, W. T., eds. Modernization in Asia: political, economic and social perspectives. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992. Comparative study of social policy, and its relationship with economic policy, in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Pp. 49-63. [HC460.5 Mod]

Deyo, Frederic C.  The political economy of social policy formation: East Asia’s newly industrialized countries. IN Appelbaum, R. P. & Henderson, J., eds. States and development in the Asian Pacific rim. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. Pp. 289-306. [HC460.5 Sta]

Doran, Christine . Global integration and local identities: engendering the Singapore Chinese. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 37(2):153-164. [G1 APV]

Doran, Christine  & Jose, Jim . Riding the tiger of globalization: international challenges facing Singapore. International Scope Review, 1(2), June 1999. 26 pages.  Looks at the broader social and cultural changes taking place in Singapore within the context of the internationalization of economic activity. Available at
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Drakakis-Smith, David . Ethnicity, class and human resource management in Singapore. IN Schmidt, J. D.; Hersh, J. & Fold, N., eds. Social change in Southeast Asia. Harlow, UK: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. Pp. 114-130. [HC690.8 Soc]

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Heng, Vincent Chun Howe . The Jews of Singapore: community, identity, family. 68p. Academic exercise - Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1996. [HM15 *1996 8]

Hing, Ai Yun . Industrial restructuring and the reconstitution of class relations in Singapore. Capital and Class, 62:79-120, 1997. [HB97.5 CC]

Hing, Ai Yun . Financial crisis and social restructuring in Singapore. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 14:74-104, 2000. [DS501 CAS]

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Kok, Lee Peng . Attempted suicide in Singapore by drug overdose. 386p. Thesis (M.D.) - Dept. of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, 1988. [RC435 *1988 1]

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Kok, Lee Peng ; Tsoi Wing-Foo  & Fung, Maureen . The wish to die: suicidal behaviour in Singapore. Singapore: Samaritans of Singapore, 1993. 102p. [HV6548.12 Kok]

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Kuo, Eddie C. Y.  & Chen, Hueh Tsyh . Toward an information society: changing occupational structure in Singapore. Asian Survey, 27(3):355-370, 1987. [DS1 AS]

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Kwok, Kian Woon  & Chua, Beng Huat . Social pluralism in Singapore. 21 leaves. Paper presented at Research Workshop on Southeast Asian Pluralisms: Social Resources for Civility and Participation in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, 5-6 August 1999, Petaling Jaya, Selangor and organized by Ford Foundation, Jakarta, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture (ISEC), Boston University, and Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. [HN770 Wsa]

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Lee, P. C. Y.  Social work in Hong-Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: bridging tradition and modernization. Indian Journal of Social Work, 55(3):419-432, 1994. [HV1 IJSW]

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