ISBN:
9781442221963
,
1442221968
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxv, 346 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
Series Statement:
Asia
Series Statement:
Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vogel, Ezra F Japan's New Middle Class
DDC:
305.550952
Keywords:
Middle class Japan
;
Middle class
;
Japan Social conditions
;
Middle class Japan
;
Japan
;
Middle class
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Social conditions
;
Gesellschaftsleben
;
Mittelstand
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
Japan Social conditions
;
Japan
;
Japan Social conditions
;
Japan
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Online-Publikation
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index. - Print version record
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