| Author | : Suzanne Hall Vogel |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2013-02-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442221720 |
These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.
| Author | : Yosuke Hirayama |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2006-11-24 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1134176295 |
Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social, political, and economic systems of the modern world. While Japan demonstrates many of the characteristics of some western housing and social systems, including mass homeownership and consumption-based lifestyles, extensive economic growth and rapid urban modernization has been achieved in balance with traditional social values and the maintenance of the family system. Helpfully divided into three sections, Housing and Social Transition in Japan: explores the dynamics of the development of the housing system in post-war Japan deals with social issues related to housing in terms of social aging, family relations, gender and inequality addresses the Japanese housing system and social change in relation to comparative and theoretical frameworks. As well as providing challenges and insights for the academic community at large, this book also provides a good introduction to the study of Japan and its housing, economic, social and welfare system generally.
| Author | : Marcus Rebick |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2006-04-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134207808 |
The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the family in society. Changing Japanese Family explores these significant changes which include an ageing population, delayed marriages, a fallen birth rate, which has fallen below the level needed for replacement, and a decline in three-generational households and family businesses. The authors investigate these changes and the effects of them on Japanese society, whilst also setting the study in the context of wider economic and social changes in Japan. They offer interesting comparisons with international societies, especially with Southern Europe, where similar changes to the family and its role are occuring. This fascinating text is essential reading for those with an enthusiasm in Japanese studies but will also engage those with a concern in Japanese culture and society, as well as appealing to a readership with a wider interest in the sociology of the family.
| Author | : Diana Adis Tahhan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2014-06-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317808347 |
This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child’s life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It shows how touch and physical contact are important for engendering intimacy and feeling, and how intimacy and feeling continue even when physical contact lessens. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, in both Japan and the West, on body, mind, intimacy and feeling, and compares the position in Japan to practices elsewhere. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to the study of and theories on body practices, and to debates on the processes of socialisation in Japan.
| Author | : Kaori H. Okano |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2009-02-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134030843 |
This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with Japanese society more generally. It considers important aspects of the transition to adulthood including employment, marriage, divorce, childbirth and custody.
| Author | : John Knight |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Aging |
| ISBN | : 9780791487242 |
| Author | : Merry I White |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2010-10-18 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1136916687 |
This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures. The contributors examine the concept of the self that underlies the idea of virtue which facilitates learning in Japan, the Confucian-style bonding between generations in Chinese society and the authority of the traditional teacher with the modern Quaranic School. They study phenomena as diverse as the effect of Christian and Islamic influence on the native cultures of Africa, and the life strategies of Japanese business women, spanning a geographical range from Morocco to Fiji.
