ISBN:
9781666900958
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (187 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sekimizu, Teppei, 1981 - A sociology of hikikomori
DDC:
302.5/450952
Keywords:
Social isolation-Japan
;
Electronic books
;
Japan
;
Isolation
Abstract:
Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Japanese Terms -- Preface -- Overview of My Field Research on Hikikomori -- Definition of Terms: Hikikomori Subjects, Hikikomori Experience, and Hikikomori Problems -- Objects and Methods of Analysis -- Note -- Chapter 1: The Hikikomori Experience and Ambivalence -- Questions and Ambivalence in the Hikikomori Experience -- Questions in the Hikikomori Experience of Kazuki Ueyama -- Despair in Communication -- Five Cases of the Hikikomori Experience -- The Case of Mr. A -- The Case of Mr. B -- The Case of Mr. C -- The Case of Ms. D -- The Case of Minoru Katsuyama -- Discussion of Ambivalence from Arendt's Perspective -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Self-Categorization as Hikikomori: Becoming a Hikikomori Subject -- Hikikomori as a Self-Definition -- Encounters with and Acceptance of the Term "Hikikomori" -- The Case of Mr. B -- The Case of Ms. D -- Other Cases -- Self-definition of Hikikomori: Relationship with Mental Disorders -- Becoming a Hikikomori Subject: Not Subordination to the Category -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Hikikomori as a Japanese Social Problem: Focusing on Families with Hikikomori Children -- The Hikikomori Problem for Families -- Perspectives of Analysis: Market, Government, and Family as Actors of Life Security -- Life Security through the Labor Market: Commodification -- Development of Life Security through the Labor Market -- Decline of Life Security through the Labor Market -- Changes in the Quality of the Labor Market -- Life Security through the Government: De-commodification -- Characteristics of the Social Security System in Postwar Japan -- Low Benefits in the Field of Disability -- Public Spending on Education -- Life Security through the Family: Pre-commodification.
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