Japan's new middle class: Third Edition

This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1...

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1. Verfasser: Vogel, Ezra F. 1930-2020 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013
Ausgabe:3rd ed
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Zusammenfassung:This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new social class, the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index
The significance of salary. The problem and its setting ; The bureaucratic setting in perspective ; The gateway to salary : infernal entrance examinations -- The family and other social systems. The consumer's "bright new life" ; Families view their government ; Community relationships ; Basic values -- Internal family processes. The decline of the Ie ideal ; The division of labor in the home ; Authority in the family ; Family solidarity ; Child rearing -- Mamachi in perspective. Order amidst rapid social change -- Mamachi revisited. Beyond salary ; Beyond success : Mamachi thirty years later / Suzanne Hall Vogel
Beschreibung:xxv, 346 S.
ISBN:9781442221956

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