ISBN:
0203802071
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041566926X
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0415669278
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9780203802076
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9780415669269
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9780415669276
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 191 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series 83
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version A Sociology of Japanese Youth : From Returnees to NEETs
DDC:
305.235089956
Keywords:
Youth - Japan - Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors of this volume set these issues in a clearly articulated 'social constructionist' framework, and put forth a sociology of Japanese youth problems which argues that there is a certain predictability about the way in which these problems are discovered, defined and dealt with.The ch
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; A SOCIOLOGY OF JAPANESE YOUTH: From returnees to NEETs; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE TO THE READER; 1 MAKING SENSE OF YOUTH PROBLEMS; 2 FROM PITIFUL TO PRIVILEGED?: The fifty-year story of the changing perception and status of Japan's returnee children (kikokushijo); 3 NARRATIVES AND STATISTICS: How compensated dating (enjo kōsai) was sold; 4 TAIBATSU: From educational solution to social problem to marginalized non-issue; 5 THE 'DISCOVERY' AND 'REDISCOVERY' OF CHILD ABUSE (JIDŌ GYAKUTAI) IN JAPAN
Description / Table of Contents:
6 HIKIKOMORI: How private isolation caught the public eye7 NEETs: The strategy within the category; 8 SHIFTING LANDSCAPES: The social context of youth problems in an ageing nation; GLOSSARY; INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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