05322nam 2200673 a 450 991081638800332120230126203400.01-4422-2195-X1-4422-2196-8(CKB)2550000001110350(EBL)1342749(OCoLC)855969981(SSID)ssj0000954252(PQKBManifestationID)12423112(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000954252(PQKBWorkID)10937948(PQKB)11679455(MiAaPQ)EBC1342749(Au-PeEL)EBL1342749(CaPaEBR)ebr10750487(CaONFJC)MIL510273(EXLCZ)99255000000111035020130906d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJapan's new middle class /Ezra F. Vogel ; with a chapter by Suzanne Hall Vogel ; foreword by William W. Kelly3rd ed.Lanham, Md. ;Plymouth, England Rowman & Littlefield Publishersc20131 online resource (374 p.)Asia/Pacific/perspectivesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4422-2371-5 1-299-79022-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Systems4 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 BranchThe Decline of the Ie Authority and WelfareSymbolic Remnants; The 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. FatherHusband 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 AffluenceThe 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; IndexThis 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 Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesMiddle classJapanJapanSocial conditionsMiddle class305.5/50952Vogel Ezra F161380Vogel Suzanne Hall1644965Kelly William W112802Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816388003321Japan's new middle class3991124UNINA