Social Class in Contemporary Japan (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through examination of contemporary Japanese society, this book demonstrates that the analysis of class formation is fundamental for a clear understanding of institutions and collective identity such as family, school work, gender and ethnicity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135248178
• Artikelnr.: 43072254

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