Japan S New Middle Class

Author : Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442221963

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Japan's New Middle Class by Ezra F. Vogel Pdf

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.

Author : Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520020928

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Japan's New Middle Class; the Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb by Ezra F. Vogel Pdf

Report on a social research field study, conducted in the Tokyo urban area between 1958 and 1960, on the emergence to middle class status of the nonmanual worker and his family in Japan - covers family budget and income, the role of educational level and the examination system, child care practices, living conditions, the social status of women, the impact of social change, etc. Bibliography pp. 301 to 305 and statistical tables.

Author : Colin Scott Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Employment
ISBN : 0542653788

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After Affluence by Colin Scott Smith Pdf

Author : Laura Neitzel
Publisher : Merwinasia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1937385876

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The Life We Longed for by Laura Neitzel Pdf

The Life We Longed For examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan's years of "high speed economic growth" (1955-1972) to house aspiring middle-class families migrating to urban areas. Due to their modern designs and the well-documented lifestyles of their inhabitants, the danchi quickly entered the social imagination as a "life to long for" and ultimately helped to redefine the parameters of middle-class aspirations after World War II. The book also discusses the extensive critique of danchi life, which warned that the emphasis on "privacy" and rampant consumerism was destructive of traditional family and community values. Ultimately, the danchi lifestyle served as a powerful "middle-class dream" which shaped the materiality and ideology of postwar everyday life, both for better and for worse.

Author : Mark Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175017

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Children as Treasures by Mark Jones Pdf

"Mark Jones examines the making of a new child’s world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children. Family reformers, scientific child experts, magazine editors, well-educated mothers, and other prewar urban elites constructed a model of childhood—having one’s own room, devoting time to homework, reading children’s literature, playing with toys—that ultimately became the norm for young Japanese in subsequent decades. This book also places the story of modern childhood within a broader social context—the emergence of a middle class in early twentieth century Japan. The ideal of making the child into a “superior student” (yutosei) appealed to the family seeking upward mobility and to the nation-state that needed disciplined, educated workers able to further Japan’s capitalist and imperialist growth. This view of the middle class as a child-centered, educationally obsessed, socially aspiring stratum survived World War II and prospered into the years beyond."

Author : Richard Torrance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Middle class in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015032933007

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The Fiction of Tokuda Shūsei, and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class by Richard Torrance Pdf

Shusei believed that literature should speak for the powerless and represent common experience - a belief forged by a number of oppositional political and literary movements, such as the movements for People's Rights in the 1870s, realism in the 1880s, naturalism in the first decade of the twentieth century, and social realism in the 1920s and 1930s. Torrance demonstrates that Shusei's concept of shomin (common) culture is the key to understanding his mature works.

Author : R. Glassman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230371880

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The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective by R. Glassman Pdf

High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes - technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers - who will impact the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the survival of democracy on this new base. Will the New Middle Class become the carrying class for a modern form of democracy utilizing the sophisticated communications technology, or will democracy decline under the weight of the managerial and technocratic strata essential to the functioning of the modern economic and political institutions?

Author : Kenji Hashimoto
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1876843713

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Class Structure in Contemporary Japan by Kenji Hashimoto Pdf

Based on data collected on 1995 by the Japanese Sociological Association, this book investigates four major classes - new, old middle, capitalist and working - and their characteristics and mobility patterns in terms of income, work, social network, leisure activity, gender relations and voting behaviour.

Author : Richard Torrance (Writer on Japanese literature)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Middle class in literature
ISBN : 0295973218

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The Fiction of Tokuda Shūsei, and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class by Richard Torrance (Writer on Japanese literature) Pdf

In this stimulating study, Richard Torrance provides the first book-length English-language analysis of the life and works of the eminent Japanese writer Tokuda Shusei (1872-1943). Literary description and analysis, biography, and historical narrative are interwoven to produce not only a literary study of distinction but documentation of the social restructuring that began in the late Meiji period.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264150348

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Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class by OECD Pdf

Middle-class households feel left behind and have questioned the benefits of economic globalisation.

Author : Arthur J. Vidich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349237715

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The New Middle Classes by Arthur J. Vidich Pdf

This volume is designed first to provide a theoretical orientation and historical perspective on the rise of the middle classes in modern civilization, and second, to portray the social and political roles these classes have played and continue to play in the United States over the past century, with particular reference to the American class structure and political economy. Our method is necessarily both historical and sociological and offers an orientation for understanding contemporary American society. The essays included here were written between 1926 and 1982: they reveal both the genealogical development of sociological thought about the middle classes and the substantive content of these classes' life styles, status claims and political orientations. The present work stresses empirical studies and puts forth neither a theoretical interpretation nor a conceptual taxonomy; rather it delineates the emergence and the social and political significance of the new middle classes in relation to the classes, above and below, that preceded them.

Author : Jennifer Elrick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487527808

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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism by Jennifer Elrick Pdf

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats’ perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals – in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms – influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats’ interpretations of immigration files generated selection criteria emphasizing not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness, and a strong work ethic. By making "middle-class multiculturalism" a demographic reality and basis of nation-building in Canada, these state actors created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities.

Author : Christof Dejung,David Motadel,Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691177342

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The Global Bourgeoisie by Christof Dejung,David Motadel,Jürgen Osterhammel Pdf

This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.

Author : Anne Allison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377245

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Precarious Japan by Anne Allison Pdf

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.

Author : Barbara Sato
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 082233044X

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The New Japanese Woman by Barbara Sato Pdf

DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div