ISBN:
9780511806551
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Japanese society
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DDC:
306.85/0952
Keywords:
Families / Japan
;
Family policy / Japan
;
Public welfare / Japan
;
Social problems / Japan
;
Applied anthropology / Japan
;
Familienpolitik
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Japan / Social policy
;
Japan / Social conditions
;
Japan
;
Konferenzschrift 1999
;
Konferenzschrift 1999
;
Japan
;
Familienpolitik
;
Sozialpolitik
Abstract:
Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This 2002 book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a consequence of Japan's changing economy, demography and the development of civil society. The case studies, based on intensive anthropological fieldwork, not only demonstrate how and why family and social policies have evolved in the world's second largest economy, but in the process provide a challenge to many of the assumptions of western policymakers. The empirical material contained in this volume will be of interest to anthropologists and to students and practitioners
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10.1017/CBO9780511806551
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