Social Class in Contemporary Japan

Structures, Sorting and Strategies
Herausgeber: Ishida, Hiroshi; Slater, David H.

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Produktbeschreibung

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990's, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class in Contemporary Japan is the first single volume that traces the dynamics of social structure, institutional socialization and class culture through this turbulent period, all the way into the contemporary neoliberal moment. In an innovative multi-disciplinary approach that include top scholars working on quantitative class structure, policy development, and ethnographic analysis, this volume highlights the centrality of class formation to our understanding of the many levels of Japanese society. The chapters each address a different aspect of class formation and transformation which stand on their own. Taken together, they document the advantages of putting Japan in the broad comparative framework of class analysis and the enduring importance of social class to the analysis of industrial and post-industrial societies. Written by a team of contributors from Japan, the US and Europe this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese society and culture, as well as those interested in cultural anthropology and social class alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780415667197
• ISBN-10: 0415667194
• Artikelnr.: 33255559

Autorenporträt

Hiroshi Ishida is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan. David H. Slater is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Studies at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Social Class Analysis as a Research Program Hiroshi Ishida and David H.
Slater Part 1: Class Structure 2. Does Class Matter in Japan? Demographics
of Class Structure and Class Mobility from a Comparative Perspective
Hiroshi Ishida 3. Marriage as an Association of Social Classes in a Low
Fertility Rate Society: Towards a New Theory of Social Stratification
Sawako Shirahase Part 2: Class Sorting 4. From Credential Society to
"Learning Capital" Society: A Rearticulation of Class Formation in Japanese
Education and Society Takehiko Kariya 5. Social Class and Economic Life
Chances in Post-Industrial Japan: The "Lost Generation" Mary C. Brinton
Part 3: Class Socialization 6. The "New Working Class" of Urban Japan:
Socialization and Contradiction from Middle School to the Labor Market
David H. Slater 7. What Color is Your Parachute? The Post-Pedigree Society
Amy Borovoy Part 4: Class Strategies 8. Motherhood and Class: Gender,
Class, and Reproductive Practices among Japanese Single Mothers Aya Ezawa
9. How Ethnic Minorities Experience Social Mobility in Japan: An
Ethnographic Study of Peruvian Migrants Ayumi Takenaka