LEADER 03649nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910815441203321 005 20230821212732.0 010 $a1-280-10492-9 010 $a0-203-03528-3 035 $a(CKB)111087027068710 035 $a(EBL)168918 035 $a(OCoLC)475876027 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176172 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11171894 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176172 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10223476 035 $a(PQKB)11743927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC168918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL168918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10060916 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL10492 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027068710 100 $a19910716d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIdeology and practice in modern Japan /$fedited by Roger Goodman and Kirsten Refsing 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1992. 215 $a1 online resource (258 pages) 225 1 $aThe Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series 311 0 $a0-415-06102-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Ideology and practice in modern Japan; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; A note to the reader; General Editor's preface; Acknowledgements; JAPAN; Chapter 1 Ideology and practice in Japan: Towards a theoretical approach; Chapter 2 Symbols of nationalism and Nihonjinron; Chapter 3 Rivers in Tokyo: A mesological glimpse; Chapter 4 Individualism and individuality: Entry into a social world; Chapter 5 When blossoms fall: Japanese attitudes towards death and the otherworld: opinion polls 1953-87 327 $aChapter 6 From farm to urban middle class: A case study of the role of education in the process of social mobility; Chapter 7 Japanese educational expansion: Quality or equality; Chapter 8 A beacon for the twenty-first century: Confucianism after the Tokugawa era in Japan; Chapter 9 NHK comes to Kuzaki: Ideology, mythology and documentary film-making; Chapter 10 The discourse on Japan in the German press: Images of economic competition; Chapter 11 Confucianism and gender segregation in Japan and Korea; Chapter 12 Self-presentation and performance in the yakuza way of life: Fieldwork with a Japanese underworld group; Index 330 $aThe issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have sometimes been used to create a sense of `Japaneseness', that obscures the fact that Japan is actually an extremely complex and heterogenous society. 410 0$aNissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. 606 $aSocial history 606 $aNational characteristics, Japanese$vCongresses 607 $aJapan$xSocial conditions$y1945-$vCongresses 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1945-$vCongresses 607 $aJapan$xSocial life and customs$y1945-$vCongresses 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Japanese 676 $a306/.0952 701 $aGoodman$b Roger$f1960-$0790446 701 $aRefsing$b Kirsten$0666521 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815441203321 996 $aIdeology and practice in modern Japan$93935712 997 $aUNINA