Japan's changing generations [[electronic resource] ] : are young people creating a new society? / / edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451343203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-05772-6; 0-203-38935-2; 0-203-31662-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Collana: Japan anthropology workshop series
• Altri autori (Persone): MathewsGordon; WhiteBruce <1974->
• Disciplina: 305.235/0952
• Soggetti: Youth - Japan; Young adults - Japan; Conflict of generations - Japan; Electronic books.; Japan Social conditions 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Japan's Changing Generations: Are young people creating a new society?; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction:Changing generations in Japan today; Part IThe Japanesegenerational divide; 1 The generation gap in Japanesesociety since the 1960s; 2 Why are Japanese youth todayso passive?; 3 The local roots of global citizenship: Generational change in a Kyushu hamlet; Part IIHow teenagers cope withthe adult world; 4 How Japanese teenagers cope: Social pressures and personal responses; 5 Youth fashion and changingbeautification practices; 6 "Guiding" Japan's universitystudents through the generationgapPart IIIHow young adultschallenge the social order; 7 Seeking a career, finding a job: How young people enter and resist the Japanese world of work; 8 Mothers and their unmarried daughters: An intimate look at generational change; 9 What happens when theycome back:How Japanese young people withforeign university degreesexperience the Japanese workplace; 10 Centered selves and life choices:Changing ; attitudes of youngeducated mothers; Epilogue:Are Japanese young people creating anew society?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of postwar decades. It argues that while young people in Japan in their teens, twenties and early thirties are not engaged in overt social or political resistance, they are turning against the existing Japanese social order, whose legitimacy has been undermined by the past decade of economic downturn. The boo