| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 346 pages). |
| Series |
Asia/Pacific/Perspectives |
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Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index. |
| Contents |
The significance of salary. The problem and its setting ; The bureaucratic setting in perspective ; The gateway to salary : infernal entrance examinations -- The family and other social systems. The consumer's "bright new life" ; Families view their government ; Community relationships ; Basic values -- Internal family processes. The decline of the Ie ideal ; The division of labor in the home ; Authority in the family ; Family solidarity ; Child rearing -- Mamachi in perspective. Order amidst rapid social change -- Mamachi revisited. Beyond salary ; Beyond success : Mamachi thirty years later / Suzanne Hall Vogel. |
| Summary |
This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new social class, the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Processing Action |
ebrary dda UPB |
| Subject |
Middle class -- Japan.
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Japan -- Social conditions.
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Japan.
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Middle class.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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Gesellschaftsleben.
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Mittelstand.
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Japan.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Vogel, Suzanne Hall, 1931-2012.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vogel, Ezra F. Japan's New Middle Class. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2013 9781442223714 |
| ISBN |
9781442221963 (electronic bk.) |
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1442221968 (electronic bk.) |
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