Japan's New Middle Class (eBook)

Ezra F. Vogel (Autor)

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2013 | 3., Third Edition
312 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-2196-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new class that set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today.

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This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new social class-the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today.

Autor

Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Suzanne Hall Vogel (1931–2012) was a psychotherapist with University Health Services at Harvard University. William W. Kelly is professor of anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University.

Inhalt

Foreword: Looking Backward at a Book That Looked ForwardWilliam W. KellyPart I: The Significance of SalaryChapter 1: The Problem and Its SettingChapter 2: The Bureaucratic Setting in PerspectiveChapter 3: The Gateway to Salary: Infernal Entrance ExaminationsPart II: The Family and Other Social SystemsChapter 4: The Consumer’s “Bright New Life”Chapter 5: Families View Their GovernmentChapter 6: Community RelationshipsChapter 7: Basic ValuesPart III: Internal Family ProcessesChapter 8: The Decline of the Ie IdealChapter 9: The Division of Labor in the HomeChapter 10: Authority in the FamilyChapter 11: Family SolidarityChapter 12: Child-RearingPart IV: Mamachi in PerspectiveChapter 13: Order Amidst Rapid Social ChangePart V: Mamachi RevisitedChapter 14: Beyond SalaryChapter 15: Beyond Success: Mamachi Thirty Years LaterAfterwordEzra F. VogelAppendix: A Report on the Field WorkSelected Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Co-Autor: Suzanne Hall Vogel
• Vorwort: William W. Kelly
• Zusatzinfo: 7 Illustrations including: - 7 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Japan Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-2196-8 / 1442221968
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-2196-3 / 9781442221963