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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495881803321

Autore

Vogel Ezra F

Titolo

Japan's new middle class; the salary man and his family in a Tokyo suburb / by Ezra F. Vogel [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1971 [c1963]

ISBN

0-585-30062-3

Edizione

[[2d ed.]]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 313 p.)

Disciplina

301.44/1/0952

Soggetti

Middle class - Japan

Communities - Social Classes

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Japan Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 301-305.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1: The significance of salary. The problem and its setting ; The gateway to salary: infernal entrance examinations -- pt. 2: The family and other social systems. The consumer's "bright new life" ; Families view their government ; Community relationships ; Basic values -- pt. 3: Internal family processes. The decline of the ie ideal ; The division of labor in the home ; Authority in the family ; Family solidarity ; Child-rearing -- pt. 4: Mamachi in perspective. Order amidst rapid social change ; Beyond salary.