Adoption and Samurai Mobility in Tokugawa Japan

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ID3637121
AutoresRay A Moore (autor de correspondencia)
Año1970
Volumen29
Número3
Páginas617-632
Fecha de publicación1970-05-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2943247
OpenAlexW2148661832, W4239756535
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas9

sHistorians have overstated the role of adoption as a channel of upward social mobility for poor but bright young samurai in Tokugawa Japan. An analysis of family histories and public service records of fourhanshows that adoption helped to preserve both samurai lineages and the political system of daimyo rule. It also created opportunities for younger sons to remain in the elite class under a system of primogeniture. Adoption in the middle and upper (shi) ranks of the class was normally between related families of roughly the same social status. Where status differences were involved, the adopted son usually represented a higher status than the adopting family. The few records available for lower ranks (sotsu) reveal some marriage and adoption with commoners, but none with the higher ranks of the samurai class. In sum, adoption clearly supported the system of hereditary status, but rarely provided opportunities for poor but bright samurai to get ahead in society

Class (philosophy) · Economics · Economy · Elite · Genealogy · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Service (business) · Social class · Social mobility · Social science · Social status · Sociology · Upper class · Chinese history and philosophy · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy

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