Dancing to Hierarchy between the United Kingdom and South Korea

This book shows why Korean hierarchy represents a value rather than a rigid organizational structure or a mere stratified social order. This opens new ways to understand continuity and change when navigating hierarchy as a value. It reveals how images of hierarchy are perceived as a desirable way of shaping reality in harmony with unequal, complementary, and asymmetrical representations, creating a vortex-like force that draws ideologies and ideas of power into its orbit. The book also offers a theoretical approach for analyzing value dynamics and social transformation in Korean relations. As a sociocultural anthropologist, the author presents Korean Christian perspectives on hierarchy, dominant values, and change in relation to continuity.