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Author : Lynne Y. Nakano
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Voluntarism
ISBN : 0415323169
Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.
Author : Lynne Nakano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134350554
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their everyday acts. It discusses their experiences in children's activities, the parent-teachers association, juvenile delinquency prevention campaigns, and care of the elderly. It explores their conflicts and their motivations, and argues that personal decisions to volunteer and acts of volunteering, besides being personal choices, are productive of larger discussions of the needs and directions of Japanese society.
Author : Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Community organization
ISBN : 0511296436
Politics and Volunteering begins by painting a portrait of volunteering in Japan, and demonstrates that our current understandings of civil society have been based implicitly on a U.S. model that does not adequately consider participation patterns found in other parts of the world. The book develops a theory of civic participation that, incorporates citizen attitudes about governmental and individual responsibility, with societal and governmental practices that support (or hinder) volunteer participation. This theory is tested using cross-national and sub-national statistical analysis, and it is refined through detailed case studies of volunteering in three Japanese cities. The findings are then used to build the Community Volunteerism Model, which explains and predicts both the types and rates of volunteering in communities around the world. The model is tested using four cross-national case studies (Finland, Japan, Turkey and the United States) and three sub-national case studies in Japan.
Author : Carolyn S. Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134757084
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
Author : Kathryn Gow,Douglas Paton
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1604561610
This book encompasses discussions between Kathryn Gow and Douglas Paton, both psychologists who have researched stress, burnout, trauma, and recovery in natural disasters. They suggest that few books have been written for health professionals, and persons directly involved with leading and managing emergency teams on what constitutes resilience in individuals and groups in communities, and how they differ in response and recovery. The outcome is a three part book with contributors from the field, research institutions, emergency service sectors, support agencies and the media. Its main purpose is to focus on the resilience of people and communities following NDs and to educate the sectors already involved in natural disasters.
Author : Paola Cavaliere
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004285156
Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women’s faith-based volunteering as a social practice, the book engages with three of the most important dimensions of civil society: gender, religion, and democracy. Cavaliere teases out the complexity of interactions among these three dimensions of civic life through stories of individual women who volunteer for three different religious organizations. The volume examines how faith-based volunteering is experienced by women in contemporary Japan and how it becomes a site of empowering and disempowering practices through which women balance the benefits and the costs of personal shifts, socio-economic changes and democratic transformation.
Author : Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791494035
A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.
Author : Barbara Holthus,Wolfram Manzenreiter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351969185
Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature. Here, for the first time, a group of anthropologists and sociologists jointly analyze the state of happiness and unhappiness in Japan among varying social groups in its physical, interpersonal, existential and structural dimensions, offering new insights into fundamental issues. This book investigates the connections between sociostructural aspects, individual agency and happiness in contemporary Japan from a life course perspective. The contributors examine quantitative and qualitative empirical data on the processes that impact how happiness and well-being are envisioned, crafted, and debated in Japan across the life-cycle. Therefore, the book discusses the shifting notions of happiness during people’s lives from birth to death, analyzing the age group-specific experiences while taking into consideration people’s life trajectories and historical changes. It points out recent developments in regards to demographic change, late marriage, and the changing labor market and focuses on their significant impact on the well-being of Japanese people. In particular it highlights the interdependencies of lives within the family and how families are collaborating for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing the happiness of its members. Broadening our understanding of the multidimensionality of happiness in Japan, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology.
Author : Florian Coulmas,Harald Conrad,Annette Schad-Seifert,Gabriele Vogt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047428114
This Handbook explores the challenges population change poses to today’s Japan. Bringing together a roster of internationally renowned scholars, it is the first publication in English that deals with Japan’s demographic crisis in a comprehensive way, addressing social, economic, political, social security and cultural aspects of Japan’s transition.
Author : Sarah Metzger-Court,Werner Pascha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134243976
From the commercial and industrial transformation of Osaka in the late 19th century to the role and status of Japanese multinationals in Europe: these two themes represent both the time-span and the breadth of this volume.
Author : Helmut K. Anheier,Wolfgang Seibel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110868401
Author : Satsuki Kawano,Glenda S. Roberts,Susan Orpett Long
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824838706
What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the “professional” housewife, managed the domestic sphere and the children, who were educated in a system that provided a path to mainstream success. In the past twenty years, however, Japanese society has seen a sharp increase in precarious forms of employment, higher divorce rates, and a widening gap between haves and have-nots. Contributors draw on rich, nuanced fieldwork data collected during the 2000s to examine work, schooling, family and marital relations, child rearing, entertainment, lifestyle choices, community support, consumption and waste, material culture, well-being, aging, death and memorial rites, and sexuality. The voices in these pages vary widely: They include schoolchildren, teenagers, career women, unmarried women, young mothers, people with disabilities, small business owners, organic farmers, retirees, and the elderly.
Author : Polina Ivanova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000911657
This book explores encounters and interactions between international students and local civil society organizations (CSOs) in Japan. Based on the results of a cross-case analysis, this study reveals the possibilities for international students in Japan of creating social capital in the short term in culturally and socially diverse groups. While a conventional approach sees universities as the main support providers, this research shows the role of local CSOs as alternative actors offering international student support. Unlike the long-standing paradigm viewing Japanese civil society as top-down and closely following the government, this book uncovers many decentralized and bottom-up organizational types. Furthermore, it highlights an active part taken by foreign staff and volunteers in Japanese CSOs, which challenges the guest–host dichotomy of the previous literature. Presenting a reconsidered insight into the role of international students and their interaction with CSOs in community building, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies and migration studies as well as organizers of CSOs and faculty of international higher education institutions.
Author : Professor of Social Anthropology Joy Hendry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134502578
Fully updated, revised and expanded, this is a welcome new edition of this bestselling book providing a clear, accessible and readable introduction to Japanese society.
Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415263832
As Japan enters the 21st century with a new emperor, this title continues to be an indispensable guide through often enigmatic and historical idiosyncrasies of Japanese culture and politics that are often confusing to the outsider. This title includes information on the latest social developments, customs, rituals, business culture, medicine and arts.
