ISBN:
9780415474757
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (262 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute / Routledge Japanese Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Class in Contemporary Japan : Structures, Sorting and Strategies
DDC:
305.50952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Social class in Japan; Part I Class structure; 2 Does class matter in Japan?: Demographics of class structure and class mobility from a comparative perspective; 3 Marriage as an association of social classes in a low fertility rate society: Towards a new theory of social stratification; Part II Class sorting; 4 From credential society to "learning capital" society: A rearticulation of class formation in Japanese education and society
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Social class and economic life chances in post-industrial Japan: The "lost generation"Part III Class socialization; 6 The "new working class" of urban Japan: Socialization and contradiction from middle school to the labor market; 7 What color is your parachute?: The post-degree society; Part IV Class strategies; 8 Motherhood and class: Gender, class, and reproductive practices among Japanese single mothers; 9 How ethnic minorities experience social mobility in Japan: An ethnographic study of Peruvian migrants; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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