M C Brinton
Biographic Data
| ID | 89579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M C Brinton |
| GIVEN NAMES | M C |
| FAMILY NAME | Brinton |
| SIGNATURE | BRINTON M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5592-6909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 692 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
When mothers do it all: Gender-Role Norms, Women's Employment, and Fertility Intentions in Post-Industrial Societies
Post-industrial countries with high rates of female labour force participation have generally had low fertility rates, but recent studies demonstrate that this is no longer the case. This has generated increased attention to how greater gender equality in the private sphere of the household may contribute to a positive relationship between women's employment rates and fertility. Building on recent scholarship demonstrating the multidimensionality…
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery by Christine M. E. Guth
Mention of Japanese crafts or mingei typically generates an image of delicate straw baskets, indigo-dyed cloth, and lacquered combs. So too does it recall the well-known mark of distinction given to skilled artisans in Japan, even in the twenty-first century—“Living National Treasures.” Such icons of craft culture represent the institutionalization and preservation of traditional techniques and materials for specific crafts by contemporary practi…
Theories of Postindustrial Fertility Decline: An Empirical Examination
Family formation patterns in the postindustrial world have changed markedly in the past several decades. Fertility rates have declined, cohabitation rates have increased, age at marriage has gone up, and nonmarital childbearing has become more common in most postindustrial settings. A dominant theoretical explanation for these changes is second demographic transition (SDT) theory, which posits widespread value change towards individualism and pos…
Singlehood in contemporary Japan: Rating, dating, and waiting for a good match
BACKGROUND: Late age at marriage and rising rates of singlehood increasingly characterize East Asian societies. For Japan, these are major contributors to the very low birth rate. OBJECTIVE: We analyze two unique data sets: dating records covering a two-year period from one of Japan's largest marriage agencies and in-depth interviews with 30 highly-educated Japanese singles. The longitudinal nature of the quantitative data allows us to test hypot…
Gender egalitarianism, perceived economic insecurity, and fertility intentions in Spain: A qualitative analysis
Economic uncertainty contributes to low fertility in many European countries. On the other hand, greater gender equality may positively influence fertility. This paper examines how these two forces interact in Spain. We use in-depth interviews to analyse fertility decision-making among young and highly educated partnered adults living in urban areas. Highly gender-egalitarian interviewees are less likely to perceive economic insecurity as an obst…
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women's Employment and Fertility in East Asia
Highly educated women’s likelihood of combining childrearing with continuous employment over the life course has increased among recent U.S. cohorts. This trend is less evident in many postindustrial countries characterized by very low fertility. Among such countries, Japan and Korea have exceptionally low proportions of women who remain employed after having children, despite aggressive government policies designed to encourage this. We draw on …
Postindustrial Fertility Ideals, Intentions, and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis
We are grateful for financial support from the National Science Foundation (grant no. SES1123885) to Mary Brinton for the Japanese, Spanish, and U.S. portions of the project and from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for additional support of the Japan portion of the project. We also appreciate the financial support from the Agency for Administration of Universi…
Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists’ Heaven and Hell
The Politics of Work-Family Policies: Comparing Japan, France, Germany and the United States
Postindustrial countries display a broad range of work–family policies, with Japan representing but one of many variations. Ever since the publication of Esping-Andersen’s classic The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, political scientists have devoted considerable attention to explaining the variation in how states organize and provide services to support families. The vast majority of research has focused on comparisons among European …
One Egalitarianism or Several? Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe
This article challenges the implicit assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. The authors argue that this approach obscures theoretically important distinctions in attitudes and renders analyses of change over time incomplete. Using latent class analysis, they investigate the multidimensional nature of gender-role attitudes in 17 postindustrial European…
Marriage and Fertility Behaviour in Japan: Economic Status and Value-Orientation
The gender division of labor and second births: Labor market institutions and fertility in Japan
Research has examined how the gendered household division of labor may deter the transition to second birth. However, little research has investigated how workplace norms influence menâ s household work
Gender‐Role Ideology, Labor Market Institutions, and Post‐industrial Fertility
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Revisiting the welfare state paradox: A firm-level analysis from Japan
Between state and family: Managers' implementation and evaluation of parental leave policies in Japan
Work–family policies have been widely adopted in post-industrial societies. This paper brings the organizational level into the analysis of work–family policy effects on female employees. We theorize that managers' evaluation of female employees' use of parental leave is shaped not only by policy content, but also by labour market structure and the dominant cultural model of household gender relations. Using Japan as a case study, we analyse in-d…
Intentions Into Actions: Norms as Mechanisms Linking Macro- and Micro-Levels
This article addresses the emergence of "lowest-low" fertility in some countries, primarily in Southern Europe and East Asia, and poses the question of why we find such large differences in birth rates across postindustrial societies. A set of macro-micro mechanisms are identified, which are examined empirically using comparative data for seven countries from the Gender and Generations Survey. Social norms, and in particular social norms related …
Workplace Matters: The Use of Parental Leave Policy in Japan
Policies to render employment and family more compatible have been adopted in many postindustrial countries. But the organizational contexts that facilitate or hinder employees' policy usage have been underexamined. This article addresses this gap by analyzing the organizational conditions associated with greater use of parental leave policy in the workplace. The authors draw on organizational data from contemporary Japan, a setting that epitomiz…
Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan
Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of employment. The much-admired system of moving young p…
School–work systems in postindustrial societies: Evidence from Japan
Cultural Capital in East Asian Educational Systems: The Case of Japan
Cultural capital has been an important but often elusive concept in the study of educational processes and social class reproduction. The authors suggest that this is partly because a country's educational system and ways of evaluating students at different educational transitions set the context for the mechanisms through which embodied and objectified cultural capital operate. Moreover, parents in some societies invest in children's 'shadow edu…
Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies – Edited by Emiko Ochiai and Barbara Molony
Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries
In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupations play in transferring opportunities from one gen…
Transformation and Persistence in Japanese Labor Market Institutions
Transformation and Persistence in Japanese Labor Market Institutions Mary C. Brinton (bio) A Nagging Sense of Job Insecurity: The New Reality Facing Japanese Youth. By Yūji Genda; translated by Jean Connell Hoff. International House of Japan, Tokyo, 2005. xii, 203 pages. ¥1,400. The Changing Japanese Employment System. By Marcus Rebick. Oxford University Press, 2005. xvii, 196 pages. £45.00. A Sociology of Work in Japan. By Ross Mouer and Hirosuk…
Class Structure in Contemporary Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Class Structure in Contemporary Japan Mary C. Brinton (bio) Class Structure in Contemporary Japan. By Kenji Hashimoto. Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne, 2003. xi, 254 pages. A$99.95, cloth; A$44.95, paper. The field of Japanese studies boasts surprisingly few English-language books on social class and inequality. While the field of social stratification is by no means small in Japanese sociology, few studies make their way into English…
One Egalitarianism or Several? Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe
This article challenges the implicit assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. The authors argue that this approach obscures theoretically important distinctions in attitudes and renders analyses of change over time incomplete. Using latent class analysis, they investigate the multidimensional nature of gender-role attitudes in 17 postindustrial European…
Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries
In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupations play in transferring opportunities from one gen…
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women's Employment and Fertility in East Asia
Highly educated women’s likelihood of combining childrearing with continuous employment over the life course has increased among recent U.S. cohorts. This trend is less evident in many postindustrial countries characterized by very low fertility. Among such countries, Japan and Korea have exceptionally low proportions of women who remain employed after having children, despite aggressive government policies designed to encourage this. We draw on …
Postindustrial Fertility Ideals, Intentions, and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis
We are grateful for financial support from the National Science Foundation (grant no. SES1123885) to Mary Brinton for the Japanese, Spanish, and U.S. portions of the project and from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for additional support of the Japan portion of the project. We also appreciate the financial support from the Agency for Administration of Universi…
Cultural Capital in East Asian Educational Systems: The Case of Japan
Cultural capital has been an important but often elusive concept in the study of educational processes and social class reproduction. The authors suggest that this is partly because a country's educational system and ways of evaluating students at different educational transitions set the context for the mechanisms through which embodied and objectified cultural capital operate. Moreover, parents in some societies invest in children's 'shadow edu…
Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan
Japanese women participate in the labor force at rates similar to women in Western industrial nations but gender stratification patterns are sharper. Women in Japan are less apt to work as employees a tendency that increases with age. Likewise female employees tend to shift from larger to smaller firms across the life cycle whereas male employees do not. These aggregate patterns imply that Japanese women are seldom placed in career-track position…
Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan
Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of employment. The much-admired system of moving young p…
Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan
The Social-Institutional Bases of Gender Stratification: Japan as an Illustrative Case
Gender stratification theory can be informed by a cross-cultural perspective and greater attention to the embeddedness of stratification processes within the social context. This article focuses on how the development and evaluation of human capital varies across cultural settings and on the implications this has for the degree of gender stratification in the economy. An argument is made for the theoretical utility of the concept of a human capit…
Elite Education and Social Capital: The Case of South Korea
Les AA. s'efforcent de mesurer l'importance des diplomes et du cursus universitaire sur le marche du travail en Coree du Sud. Ils etudient l'evolution du systeme educatif coreen depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees en 1992. Ils examinent l'influence de certains facteurs comme le revenu salarial, les conditions d'embauche, le niveau de qualification professionnelle, le niveau d'instruc…
Married Women's Employment in Rapidly Industrializing Societies: Examples from East Asia
A variety of explanations have addressed the phenomenon of secular change in married women's employment in rapidly industrializing countries. These include theoretical frameworks that emphasize female labor supply, the conditions of labor demand, patriarchal values, the international division of labor, and the effects of exported industrialization. This article examines two societies (South Korea and Taiwan) that showed considerable similarity in…
The gender division of labor and second births: Labor market institutions and fertility in Japan
Research has examined how the gendered household division of labor may deter the transition to second birth. However, little research has investigated how workplace norms influence menâ s household work
Workplace Matters: The Use of Parental Leave Policy in Japan
Policies to render employment and family more compatible have been adopted in many postindustrial countries. But the organizational contexts that facilitate or hinder employees' policy usage have been underexamined. This article addresses this gap by analyzing the organizational conditions associated with greater use of parental leave policy in the workplace. The authors draw on organizational data from contemporary Japan, a setting that epitomiz…
Productive Activities and Support Systems of Single Mothers
Young single mothers' human capital development and labor market participation are important issues of public policy concern in the United States. This article uses a dynamic approach to model the determinants of single mothers' entry into and exit from productive activities. Using 14 waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the article shows that kin coresidence facilitates young single mothers' entry into productive activit…
Between state and family: Managers' implementation and evaluation of parental leave policies in Japan
Work–family policies have been widely adopted in post-industrial societies. This paper brings the organizational level into the analysis of work–family policy effects on female employees. We theorize that managers' evaluation of female employees' use of parental leave is shaped not only by policy content, but also by labour market structure and the dominant cultural model of household gender relations. Using Japan as a case study, we analyse in-d…
Singlehood in contemporary Japan: Rating, dating, and waiting for a good match
BACKGROUND: Late age at marriage and rising rates of singlehood increasingly characterize East Asian societies. For Japan, these are major contributors to the very low birth rate. OBJECTIVE: We analyze two unique data sets: dating records covering a two-year period from one of Japan's largest marriage agencies and in-depth interviews with 30 highly-educated Japanese singles. The longitudinal nature of the quantitative data allows us to test hypot…
Gender egalitarianism, perceived economic insecurity, and fertility intentions in Spain: A qualitative analysis
Economic uncertainty contributes to low fertility in many European countries. On the other hand, greater gender equality may positively influence fertility. This paper examines how these two forces interact in Spain. We use in-depth interviews to analyse fertility decision-making among young and highly educated partnered adults living in urban areas. Highly gender-egalitarian interviewees are less likely to perceive economic insecurity as an obst…
Theories of Postindustrial Fertility Decline: An Empirical Examination
Family formation patterns in the postindustrial world have changed markedly in the past several decades. Fertility rates have declined, cohabitation rates have increased, age at marriage has gone up, and nonmarital childbearing has become more common in most postindustrial settings. A dominant theoretical explanation for these changes is second demographic transition (SDT) theory, which posits widespread value change towards individualism and pos…
Revisiting the welfare state paradox: A firm-level analysis from Japan
Age and sex in the occupational structure: A United States-Japan comparison
When mothers do it all: Gender-Role Norms, Women's Employment, and Fertility Intentions in Post-Industrial Societies
Post-industrial countries with high rates of female labour force participation have generally had low fertility rates, but recent studies demonstrate that this is no longer the case. This has generated increased attention to how greater gender equality in the private sphere of the household may contribute to a positive relationship between women's employment rates and fertility. Building on recent scholarship demonstrating the multidimensionality…
Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform
Standard works on the employment systems of Japanese companies deal almost exclusively with men. Women, however, constitute the vast majority of the low wage, highly flexible non-core employees. This book breaks new ground in examining the role of Japanese women in industry. It assesses the extent to which growing pressure for equal opportunities between the sexes has caused Japanese companies to adapt their employment and personnel management pr…
Intentions Into Actions: Norms as Mechanisms Linking Macro- and Micro-Levels
This article addresses the emergence of "lowest-low" fertility in some countries, primarily in Southern Europe and East Asia, and poses the question of why we find such large differences in birth rates across postindustrial societies. A set of macro-micro mechanisms are identified, which are examined empirically using comparative data for seven countries from the Gender and Generations Survey. Social norms, and in particular social norms related …
School–work systems in postindustrial societies: Evidence from Japan
From High School to Work in Japan: Lessons for the United States
Youth employment problems have received considerable public and scholarly attention in the United States in recent years. A chief concern is the worsening situation of high school‐educated youth versus their college‐educated counterparts in terms of wages, turnover rates, and unemployment. Japan has been cited as an example of a country that demonstrates how high school‐employer linkages can facilitate the successful and stable transition from hi…
Gender and the Life Course.Alice Rossi
Child Development and Education in Japan
Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community. Anne E. Imamura
The Social-Institutional Bases of Gender Stratification: Japan as an Illustrative Case
Gender stratification theory can be informed by a cross-cultural perspective and greater attention to the embeddedness of stratification processes within the social context. This article focuses on how the development and evaluation of human capital varies across cultural settings and on the implications this has for the degree of gender stratification in the economy. An argument is made for the theoretical utility of the concept of a human capit…
Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan
Japanese women participate in the labor force at rates similar to women in Western industrial nations but gender stratification patterns are sharper. Women in Japan are less apt to work as employees a tendency that increases with age. Likewise female employees tend to shift from larger to smaller firms across the life cycle whereas male employees do not. These aggregate patterns imply that Japanese women are seldom placed in career-track position…
Public Policy and Private Education in Japan . Estelle James , Gail Benjamin
Japanese Schooling: Patterns of Socialization, Equality, and Political Control
Chapter 3 Christmas Cakes and Wedding Cakes: H% The Organization of M Japanese Women's Life Course
One Nation, Many Lives
Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan
Age and sex in the occupational structure: A United States-Japan comparison
Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform
Standard works on the employment systems of Japanese companies deal almost exclusively with men. Women, however, constitute the vast majority of the low wage, highly flexible non-core employees. This book breaks new ground in examining the role of Japanese women in industry. It assesses the extent to which growing pressure for equal opportunities between the sexes has caused Japanese companies to adapt their employment and personnel management pr…
Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
This is a persuasive, multilayered analysis of a vital but little-examined sector of the Japanese workforce--the female permanent blue-collar worker. Through personal accounts of factory life, the author examines why these women work, what satisfaction they find in remaining in the workforce, and how they meet the demands of work and household, caught in a contradiction between traditional socio-cultural ideology and modern economic reality
The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality
Three Books on Japanese Women and Work
Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan
Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan
The Change of a Lifetime: Employment Patterns among Japan's Managerial Elite
James S. Coleman, Founding Editor: An Intellectual and Personal Remembrance
Married Women's Employment in Rapidly Industrializing Societies: Examples from East Asia
A variety of explanations have addressed the phenomenon of secular change in married women's employment in rapidly industrializing countries. These include theoretical frameworks that emphasize female labor supply, the conditions of labor demand, patriarchal values, the international division of labor, and the effects of exported industrialization. This article examines two societies (South Korea and Taiwan) that showed considerable similarity in…
Elite Education and Social Capital: The Case of South Korea
Les AA. s'efforcent de mesurer l'importance des diplomes et du cursus universitaire sur le marche du travail en Coree du Sud. Ils etudient l'evolution du systeme educatif coreen depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees en 1992. Ils examinent l'influence de certains facteurs comme le revenu salarial, les conditions d'embauche, le niveau de qualification professionnelle, le niveau d'instruc…
Productive Activities and Support Systems of Single Mothers
Young single mothers' human capital development and labor market participation are important issues of public policy concern in the United States. This article uses a dynamic approach to model the determinants of single mothers' entry into and exit from productive activities. Using 14 waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the article shows that kin coresidence facilitates young single mothers' entry into productive activit…
From High School to Work in Japan: Lessons for the United States
Youth employment problems have received considerable public and scholarly attention in the United States in recent years. A chief concern is the worsening situation of high school‐educated youth versus their college‐educated counterparts in terms of wages, turnover rates, and unemployment. Japan has been cited as an example of a country that demonstrates how high school‐employer linkages can facilitate the successful and stable transition from hi…
Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future
Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present and FutureKumiko Fujimura - Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda, eds. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995; 422 pp.Reviewed by Yoko Ueda Center for Japanese Studies Department of Sociology Spelman College Atlanta, GeorgiaContemporary issues concerning women in Japan undoubtedly command a broad interest among women in the West. Yet the English language literatur…
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