Japan's new middle class /:

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.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]
Ausgabe:Third edition.
Schriftenreihe:Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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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:1 online resource (xxv, 346 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index.
ISBN:9781442221963
1442221968

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