Teppei Sekimizu

A Sociology of Hikikomori

Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781666900965
• ISBN-10: 1666900966
• Artikelnr.: 69857993

Autorenporträt

By Teppei Sekimizu

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Glossary of Japanese Terms
Preface
Chapter 1 The Hikikomori Experience and Ambivalence
Chapter 2 Self-Categorization as Hikikomori: Becoming a Hikikomori Subject
Chapter 3 Hikikomori as a Japanese Social Problem: Focusing on Families
with Hikikomori Children
Chapter 4 Discourses on the Hikikomori Problem from the 1980s to the 2010s
Chapter 5 On the Difficulty of Participation: From Theoretical and
Empirical Considerations of the Situated Self
Chapter 6 Time Perspective in the Hikikomori Experience
Conclusion Japanese Society in the Light of the Hikikomori Experience
References
About the Author