@inbook{dac5cabad0d945549bf5fc3b8b218758,
title = "Family In Flux: Benchmarking Family Changes In Hong Kong Society",
abstract = "This paper explores whether Hong Kong people are under the process of modernization/individualization in their family life. Data from a 2005 territory-wide survey are used to uncover the patterns of relations, practices, choice and diversity in the families of Hong Kong, with particular interest in testing the individualization thesis. The findings can both confirm and {\textquoteleft}unpack{\textquoteright} the trend of individualization. They suggest that individualization in Hong Kong is compartmentalized in that more individualized lifestyles can be contemplated and practised in some areas without undermining family mutuality or the connection between marriage and parenthood, and certainly without establishing diversified familial life-courses. In this regard, we argue that individualization in Hong Kong represents a more flexible way of handling and managing the multifarious practices and obligations of family life. Families in Hong Kong are less an entity than a process and an assemblage of practices, and {\textquoteleft}families are what families do{\textquoteright}.",
author = "Koo, {Anita C.} and Wong, {Thomas W.P.}",
note = "Funding Information: The study was supported by a grant from the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. The project title is Family in Flux: Values, Relations and Strategies in Hong Kong Families , reference number HKU7237/03H. Publisher copyright: Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints BRILL, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP.",
year = "2009",
month = may,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1163/ej.9789004175679.i-303.10",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004175679 ",
series = "Social Transformations in Chinese Societies",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "17--56",
editor = "Kwok-bun Chan and Agnes Ku and Yin-wah Chu",
booktitle = "Doing Families in Hong Kong",
edition = "1st",
}