Select one question to write on.
The length of the essay is 2,000 words maximum.
Essay Questions:
1. Discuss the operationalisation of social and cultural capital and networks among two groups of people in Asia. What are the problematics associated with people tapping into social cultural capital and their networks?
2. Modern technology has created a networked society. Discuss the extent to which Castells' work enable us to understand how Asian youths tap into the social media to create platforms and digital space to lend their voice and participate in social activism that are of concerns to them. Cite 2 examples.
3. Discuss the idea of religious compassion as soft power and how it leads to religious philanthropic works among different religious groups in Asia. Provide 2 examples.
4. With reference to popular cultures from two Asian countries, discuss the relevance of Nye's "soft power" in projecting cultural, inter alia political hegemony from one Asian country to another.