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Social class in contemporary Japan : structures, sorting and strategies / edited by Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater.
Van Pelt Library HN730.Z9 S6756 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
- The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--Japan.
- Social classes.
- Social mobility.
- Japan.
- Social structure--Japan.
- Social structure.
- Social mobility--Japan.
- Japan--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Summary:
- Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial society outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990's, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away.
- Social Class in Contemporary Japan is the first single volume that traces the dynamics of social structure, institutional socialization and class culture through this turbulent period, all the way into the contemporary neoliberal moment. Using an innovative multi-disciplinary approach that includes top scholars working on quantitative class structure, policy development, and ethnographic analysis, this volume highlights the centrality of class formation to our understanding of the many levels of formation and transformation which stand on their own. Taken together, they document the advantages of putting Japan in the broad comparative framework of class analysis and the enduring importance of social class to the analysis of industrial and post-industrial societies.
- Written by a team of contributors from Japan, the US and Europe this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese society and culture, as well as those interested in culture anthropology and social class alike.
- Contents:
- 1 Social class in Japan / Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater 1
- Part I Class structure 31
- 2 Does class matter in Japan? Demographics of class structure and class mobility from a comparative perspective / Hiroshi Ishida 33
- 3 Marriage as an association of social classes in a low fertility rate society: towards a new theory of social stratification / Sawako Shirahase 57
- Part II Class sorting 85
- 4 From credential society to "learning capital" society: a rearticulation of class formation in Japanese education and society / Takehiko Kariya 87
- 5 Social class and economic life chances in post-industrial Japan: the "lost generation" / Mary C. Brinton 114
- Part III Class socialization 135
- 6 The "new working class" of urban Japan: socialization and contradiction from middle school to the labor market / David H. Slater 137
- 7 What color is your parachute? The post-degree society / Amy Borovoy 170
- Part IV Class strategies 195
- 8 Motherhood and class: gender, class, and reproductive practices among Japanese single mothers / Aya Ezawa 197
- 9 How ethnic minorities experience social mobility in Japan: an ethnographic study of Peruvian migrants / Ayumi Takenaka 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415474757
- 0415474752
- 9780203869154
- 020386915X
- 9780203869116
- 0203869117
- OCLC:
- 311036641
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