Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan.
Title:
Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan.
Author:
Goodman, Roger.
ISBN:
9780203035283
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Series:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Ideology and practice in modern Japan -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- A note to the reader -- General Editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- JAPAN -- Chapter 1 Ideology and practice in Japan: Towards a theoretical approach -- Chapter 2 Symbols of nationalism and Nihonjinron -- Chapter 3 Rivers in Tokyo: A mesological glimpse -- Chapter 4 Individualism and individuality: Entry into a social world -- Chapter 5 When blossoms fall: Japanese attitudes towards death and the otherworld: opinion polls 1953-87 -- Chapter 6 From farm to urban middle class: A case study of the role of education in the process of social mobility -- Chapter 7 Japanese educational expansion: Quality or equality -- Chapter 8 A beacon for the twenty-first century: Confucianism after the Tokugawa era in Japan -- Chapter 9 NHK comes to Kuzaki: Ideology, mythology and documentary film-making -- Chapter 10 The discourse on Japan in the German press: Images of economic competition -- Chapter 11 Confucianism and gender segregation in Japan and Korea -- Chapter 12 Self-presentation and performance in the yakuza way of life: Fieldwork with a Japanese underworld group -- Index.
Abstract:
The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have sometimes been used to create a sense of `Japaneseness', that obscures the fact that Japan is actually an extremely complex and heterogenous society. In particular, `practice' at the micro-level of society is explored to illuminate or express a broader ideology. The contributors investigate a wide variety of subjects - from attitudes to death to the role of education, from film making to gender segregation - to see what can be said about the phenomenon in particular, what it tells us about Japan in general, and what conclusions can be drawn for our understanding of society in the broadest sense.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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