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Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies

Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies

Ishida, Hiroshi
Slater, David H.

Paperback

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0415667194
ISBN13: 9780415667197
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 10 2011
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of middle-mass society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990's, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away.

Social Class in Contemporary Japan is the first single volume that traces the dynamics of social structure, institutional socialization and class culture through this turbulent period, all the way into the contemporary neoliberal moment. In an innovative multi-disciplinary approach that include top scholars working on quantitative class structure, policy development, and ethnographic analysis, this volume highlights the centrality of class formation to our understanding of the many levels of Japanese society. The chapters each address a different aspect of class formation and transformation which stand on their own. Taken together, they document the advantages of putting Japan in the broad comparative framework of class analysis and the enduring importance of social class to the analysis of industrial and post-industrial societies.

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