Tomoko Kurihara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4581197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomoko Kurihara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurihara |
| SIGNATURE | KURIHARA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Londres |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Seken
The Japanese script for seken combines the two Chinese characters meaning “world” (pronounced as either yo or se ) with “space between” (pronounced as aida , ma , kan , or ken ). The core features of the concept are as follows. Seken refers to the appearance of the total network of social relations that surround an individual. It conveys the corresponding cultural norms and values that function to regulate social behavior, and hints at how such r…
Office Ladies
Office lady” ( ofisu redì ), or in its shortened form OL ( ō eru ), is a term commonly used in Japan to describe female workers who are employed in submanagerial positions in white‐collar workplaces. In its popular usage, the term OL lacks specificity and usually refers to women who work in any office environment, in a firm of any size, and in any sector or occupation, whereas the scholarly work on OLs has tended to focus on women working in larg…
Salary Men
In contemporary Japanese society the term salary men refers mainly to white‐collar elites in multinational corporations (who represent approximately 20 percent of the total working population). As described in Beck and Beck's A Change of a Lifetime (1994) salary men constitute a managerial class that occupies the top stratum of the business community and is accorded high status in society. Its members have almost exclusively obtained degrees from…
Alternative pedagogy of learning and teaching Anthropology
This paper is a first attempt at presenting a multi-authored ethnography of e@tm in its second year. It is open to further elaboration through the contributions of readers. It aims to investigate the contradictions inherent in our own practice, as subalterns within an academic institution attempting to create a space for the production of alternative but equally legitimate knowledges. The notions of communitas, and creativity or innovation which …
No prominent works on this page.
Alternative pedagogy of learning and teaching Anthropology
This paper is a first attempt at presenting a multi-authored ethnography of e@tm in its second year. It is open to further elaboration through the contributions of readers. It aims to investigate the contradictions inherent in our own practice, as subalterns within an academic institution attempting to create a space for the production of alternative but equally legitimate knowledges. The notions of communitas, and creativity or innovation which …
Office Ladies
Office lady” ( ofisu redì ), or in its shortened form OL ( ō eru ), is a term commonly used in Japan to describe female workers who are employed in submanagerial positions in white‐collar workplaces. In its popular usage, the term OL lacks specificity and usually refers to women who work in any office environment, in a firm of any size, and in any sector or occupation, whereas the scholarly work on OLs has tended to focus on women working in larg…
Salary Men
In contemporary Japanese society the term salary men refers mainly to white‐collar elites in multinational corporations (who represent approximately 20 percent of the total working population). As described in Beck and Beck's A Change of a Lifetime (1994) salary men constitute a managerial class that occupies the top stratum of the business community and is accorded high status in society. Its members have almost exclusively obtained degrees from…
Seken
The Japanese script for seken combines the two Chinese characters meaning “world” (pronounced as either yo or se ) with “space between” (pronounced as aida , ma , kan , or ken ). The core features of the concept are as follows. Seken refers to the appearance of the total network of social relations that surround an individual. It conveys the corresponding cultural norms and values that function to regulate social behavior, and hints at how such r…
Sociology (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)