John Clammer

Comtemp Urban Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Japan, despite its prominence in the world economy, has so far received little systematic sociological attention from western scholars. One of the most neglected areas has been urban sociology. This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way. The book breaks new ground methodologically and conceptually by exploring contemporary Japanese urban lifestyles through the medium of an analysis of consumption behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780631203018
• ISBN-10: 063120301X
• Artikelnr.: 21824707

Autorenporträt

John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption.
2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City.
3. The Context of Desire.
4. Shopping and the Social Self.
5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption.
6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the
Body.
7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in
Japanese Tourism.
8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.
References.
Index.