An Introduction to Japanese Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2914683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn S Stevens (0000-0002-9213-115X, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 108 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | An Introduction to Japanese Society, Yoshio Sugimoto, 2002 |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2760842 |
| OpenAlex | W2117158709 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text examines the multifaceted nature of contemporary Japanese society with chapters covering class, geographical and generational variation, work, education, gender, ethnicity, religion, popular culture, and the establishment. This edition begins with a new historical introduction placing the sociological analysis of contemporary Japan in context, and includes a new chapter on religion and belief systems. Comprehensively revised to include current research and statistics, the text covers changes to the labor market, evolving conceptions of family and gender, demographic shifts in an aging society, and the emergence of new social movements. Each chapter now contains illustrative case examples, research questions, recommended further readings and useful online resources. Written in a lively and engaging style, An Introduction to Japanese Society remains essential reading for all students of Japanese society
China · Chinese society · Contemporary society · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Political science · Reading (process) · Social science · Sociological research · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Instrumental Culturalism
The alienating inalienable
The Limits Of Multiculturalism In Japan
Analysing Complex Political Change by Applying the Concept of Regime Change
No chance for romance
De-Westernizing media studies
The Japanese Educational System as an International Model for Urban Resilience
A Triple Parallax
Critical incidents in the experiences of Japanese returnees
Why Globalizing with a Conservative Corporate Culture Inhibits Localization of Management
Football in the reconstruction of the gender order in Japan
Football, komyuniti and the Japanese ideological soccer apparatus
Racialization in a ‘homogenous’ society? The case of Buraku people in Japan
Discourses of multicultural coexistence(Tabunka Kyōsei)and the ‘old-comer’ Korean residents of Japan
Hanging in Japan
The Inflow of Southeast Asian Healthcare Worker Candidates in Japan
Gender, pride and medical circumcision in contemporary Japan
Othering, racial hierarchies and identity construction in Japanese television advertising
From Duty to Fashion
Learning masculinities in a Japanese high school rugby club
Attitudes Toward Married Persons’ Surnames in Twenty-First Century Japan
Fight!! Ippatsu
Neighborhood Associations and Social Capital in Japan
Valuing Romantic Relationships
Hierarchy in Political Discussion
Japanese social values in representations of Australia
Prospects for studies of Japanese society in the context of Australian higher education
The conundrum of Japanese editorials
The Impact of Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, and Cultural Studies on Japanese Studies in Australia
Discriminatory language in Japan
(Re)constructing Identities
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi x Chonangang
Tiny buds whispering
Ore and omae
Seishin Habitus
From the Profane to the Sacred
Mechanical genders
Measuring national culture
Connoisseurship and drunkenness in Tokyo
Aging gracefully
Friendly authoritarianism” and the bedtaun
Young children’s beliefs about school learning in Japan and the United States
Gender and Value Orientations—What’s the Difference!? The Case of Japan and the United States
Can We Make Sense of Knowledge Management’s Tangible Rainbow? A Radical Constructivist Alternative
Perspectives on Language Learning and Teaching in Japan
Shitsuke
Gaijin performing gaijin ('A foreigner performing a foreigner)
Contextualizing macro-level identities and constructing inclusiveness through teasing and self-mockery
Analyzing the function of meta-oriented critical comments in Japanese comic conversations
Gender Representation of Older People in Japanese Television Advertisements
Precariousness in everyday life
System transition in Japanese short‐term higher education
A comparativist’s predicaments of writing about ‘other’ education
Geographical inequalities of mortality by income in two developed island countries
The social gradient in life expectancy
Life encapsulated
Impacts of land use policy on the recovery of mountain catchments from acidification
Understanding leisure time and leisure space in contemporary Japanese society
Differences in levels of deviance between Japanese and American students
Gender and Deviance
Attitude Transference and Deviant Behavior
Bond to Society, Collectivism, and Conformity
Designing an Opinion for its (Local) Context
Role of Cultural Lag in Marriage Decline for Japan's Boom and Bust Cohorts
Boundary work
An identity based on being different
Contrasting experiences in Japanese returnee adjustment
English as a multicultural language
Bilingual behaviour, attitudes, identity and vitality
Racialized national identity construction in the ancestral homeland
Why Taiko? Understanding Taiko performance at New Zealand's first Taiko Festival
Bad Youth
Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility
Teaching Mills in Tokyo
Students, sarariiman (pl.), and seniors
Tsugaru Shamisen
Drum Travel
Social Networks in ‘Neighbourhood Tokyo’
The Organization of Prosecution and the Possibility of Order
Reembedding Lean
Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies among College Students in Japan and the United States
Culture, Power, and Experience
Selves, Cultures, and Nations
Okeikoba
Distant Kin
Dialogue and rhetoric
Tama‐chan and Sealing Japanese Identity
Gender inequality and family formation in Japan
Patriarchy and the Horror of the Monstrous Feminine
Japanese political economy revisited
The advent of vulnerability
Key figure of mobility
The Social Construction of Race and Minorities in Japan
From dividual and individual selves to porous subjects
Rethinking Culture, National Culture, and Japanese Culture
The Overcooked and Underdone
Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters
Two Japanese Treatments of Japan's Ethnic Korean Community
Movement behind the Scenes
Explaining the Impact of Japan's Educational Reform
Political women in Japan
Myth and Reality in the Japanese Educational Selection System
Culture and the self
Japanese Gay Magazines and Marriage Advertisements
Individual and collective processes in the construction of the self
A Contextual Model of the Japanese
Small is Bountiful
The Japanese Type of Organisation as a Challenge to the Sociological Theory of Modernisation
Traditional Small Group Organization and Cultural Modelling in Modern Japan
Race and Reflexivity
Intergenerational Class Mobility in Postwar Japan
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |