Japan's Changing Generations (eBook, PDF)

Are Young People Creating a New Society?
Redaktion: Mathews, Gordon; White, Bruce

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the generation gap in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order; rather it signifies something much more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134353897
• Artikelnr.: 38263538

Autorenporträt

Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001). Bruce White is Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Europe-Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University; he is the author of the Ph.D thesis 'Modernity's Children: Generational Change, Identity, and Global Citizenship in Japan'.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Japanese Generational Divide 1. The Generation Gap in Japanese
Society since the 1960s 2. Why are Japanese Youth Today so Passive? 3. The
Local Roots of Global Citizenship: Generational Change in a Kyushu Hamlet
Part 2: How Teenagers Cope With the Adult World 4. How Japanese Teenagers
Cope: Social Pressures and Personal Responses 5. Youth Fashion and Changing
Beautification Practices 6. 'Guiding' Japan's University Students through
the Generation Gap Part 3: How Young Adults Challenge the Social Order 7.
Seeking a Career, Finding a Job: How Young People Enter and Resist the
Japanese World of Work 8. Mothers and Their Unmarried Daughters: An
Intimate Look at Generational Change 9. What Happens When They Come Back:
How Japanese Young People with Foreign University Degrees Experience the
Japanese Workplace 10. Centered Selves and Life Choices: Changing Attitudes
of Young Educated Mothers Epilogue: Are Japanese Young People Creating a
New Society?