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Autore |
Vogel Ezra F |
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Titolo |
Japan's new middle class [[electronic resource]] / Ezra F. Vogel ; with a chapter by Suzanne Hall Vogel ; foreword by William W. Kelly |
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Lanham, Md. ; ; Plymouth, England, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-4422-2195-X |
1-4422-2196-8 |
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Edizione |
[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asia/Pacific/perspectives |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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VogelSuzanne Hall |
KellyWilliam W |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Middle class - Japan |
Japan Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Significance of Salary; 1 The Problem and Its Setting; The Double Structure; The Setting: Mamachi; 2 The Bureaucratic Setting in Perspective; The Successful Businessman; The Independent Professional; The Shopkeeper; The Salary Man; 3 The Gateway to Salary; Preparing for and Taking Examinations; The Family's Contribution: Maternal Involvement; The School's Contribution: Teacher Involvement; Mitigating the Harshness; The Hypertrophy of Examinations; Achievement Without Rivalry; PART II: The Family and Other Social Systems |
4 The Consumer's "Bright New Life"The Ordered Life; The Limits of Frugality; The Freedom to Shop; 5 Families View Their Government; The National Identity; The Role of the Citizen; Salary and the Moderation of Alienation; 6 Community Relationships; The Separate Communities of Husbands, Wives, and Children; The Narrow World; Techniques of Social Control; 7 Basic Values; Loyalty; Competence; A Major Variation: Aesthetic Values; The Moral Basis of the Salary Man; PART III: Internal Family Processes; 8 The Decline of the Ie Ideal; The Concept of Ie; The Branch |
The Decline of the Ie Authority and WelfareSymbolic Remnants; The |
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Decline of Family Principles; 9 The Division of Labor in the Home; Creeping Co-operation in the Home; Housework: The Daily Round; Housework: Inglorious and Glorious; 10 Authority in the Family; The Tradition of "Male Dominance"; Maintenance of Decentralized Authority; The Nature and Exercise of the Husband's Authority; The Art of Husband Management; The Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law; 11 Family Solidarity; The Household Unit; The Basic Alignment: Mother and Children vs. Father |
Husband and Wife: Increasing Privacy and IntimacyCoalitions with Grandparents; 12 Child-Rearing; The Basic Relationship: Mutual Dependency of Mother and Child; Variations on a Theme: Birth Order, Sex, and Parentage; The Father; Getting the Child to Understand; Getting the Child's Co-operation in Study; PART IV: Mamachi in Perspective; 13 Order Amidst Rapid Social Change; The Transitional Order; The Nature of the New Order; The Diffusion of the New Order; PART V: Mamachi Revisited; 14 Beyond Salary; A New Confidence in Old Mamachi; Salary Without Visions; Approaching Affluence |
The Growth of National Pride"My Home-ism": Old Wine in New Bottles; 15 Beyond Success; Economic Progress, National and Family Pride; Predominance of the Salaryman Way of Life; Strains in the Salaryman's Life; Hypertrophy of the Examination System; Ever-Declining Ie: Nuclear Families and Increasing Individualism; Women's Liberation, Mamachi Style; Changing Expectations for Marriage: New Ideas, Old Habits; Child-Training in an Era of Weakened Authority; Beyond Success; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new class that set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that |
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