The Changing Japanese Family

Author : Marcus Rebick,Ayumi Takenaka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134207800

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The Changing Japanese Family by Marcus Rebick,Ayumi Takenaka Pdf

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 : Akihiko Kato
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811621130

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The Japanese Family System by Akihiko Kato Pdf

This book offers a new perspective and empirical evidence that are relevant for understanding changes in family structures, intergenerational relationships, and female labor force participation in the “strong family” societies and that also shed light on those in the “weak family” societies. Focusing on the stem family and the gender division of labor, presenting detailed quantitative evidence, and testing the theories on family change and gender revolution, the book provides a comprehensive examination of change, continuity, and regionality in the Japanese family system over the twentieth century. By analyzing data from a nationally representative life course survey with event history techniques, it investigates factors affecting post-marital intergenerational co-residence and proximate residence along with those influencing continuous and/or discontinuous employment of married women across the life course. In this way, it reveals the mechanisms underlying the stem family formation and those behind married women’s M-shaped employment pattern. It further explores regionality in the Japanese family system, applying a demographic mapping method to data from a nationally representative community survey and official statistics. The mapping analyses demonstrate persistent geographical contrasts between two types of living arrangements (single-household versus multi-household) in the stem family accompanied by two types of maternal employment (full-time versus part-time). They also reveal a historical correlation between traditional communal parenting systems and modern childcare services, linking past to present from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

Author : Richard Ronald,Allison Alexy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136888861

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Home and Family in Japan by Richard Ronald,Allison Alexy Pdf

In the Japanese language the word ‘ie’ denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society - have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book comprehensively addresses various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to contemporary social, economic and urban transformations, and the degree to which traditional patterns of both houses and households are changing. The book contextualises the shift from the hegemonic post-war image of standard family life, to the nuclear family and to a situation now where Japanese homes are more likely to include unmarried singles; childless couples; divorcees; unmarried adult children and elderly relatives either living alone or in nursing homes. It discusses how these new patterns are both reinforcing and challenging typical understandings of Japanese family life.

Author : Marcus Rebick,Ayumi Takenaka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134207794

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The Changing Japanese Family by Marcus Rebick,Ayumi Takenaka Pdf

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 : Suzanne Hall Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442221727

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The Japanese Family in Transition by Suzanne Hall Vogel Pdf

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 : 落合恵美子
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X004230314

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The Japanese Family System in Transition by 落合恵美子 Pdf

Author : Vivienne Kenrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:152076862

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A Japanese Family Faces Change by Vivienne Kenrick Pdf

Author : Tomoko Aoyama,Laura Dales,Romit Dasgupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317974994

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Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan by Tomoko Aoyama,Laura Dales,Romit Dasgupta Pdf

The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse. This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. While the primary focus is the "Japanese" family, it also examines the experience and practice of family beyond the borders of Japan, in such settings as Brazil, Australia, and Bali. The chapters explore key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living arrangements and parenting. Moreover, many of the issues addressed, such as the growing diversity of family, the increase in single-person households, and the implications of an ageing society, are applicable to other mature, late-industrial societies. Employing both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches, this book combines textual analysis of contemporary television, film, literature, manga, anime and other media with empirical and ethnographic studies of families in Japan and in transnational spaces. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a number of fields including Japanese culture and society, sociology of family, gender studies, film and media studies, literature and cultural studies, and gerontology.

Author : Chiye Sano
Publisher : Washington : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Families
ISBN : UVA:X000618195

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Changing Values of the Japanese Family by Chiye Sano Pdf

Author : Lee-Jay Cho,Motoo Yada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X002557203

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Tradition and Change in the Asian Family by Lee-Jay Cho,Motoo Yada Pdf

Nowhere has this transformation been more apparent than in the countries of East and Southeast Asia, particularly Japan. And with the new social and economic circumstances have come challenges to cultural traditions and values.

Author : Chizuko Ueno
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 187684356X

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The Modern Family in Japan by Chizuko Ueno Pdf

This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalistic methodologies, Ueno - who is arguably the foremost feminist theoretician in Japan - delineates in vivid detail how the family has been changing in form and function in the last hundred years. In each chapter, Ueno introduces the reader to a different facet of modern Japanese family life, ranging from children who fantasize about being orphans to the elderly who confront 'pre-senescence.' The central focus is on the housewife - her history, her ever-changing responsibilities, her ways of surviving mid-life crisis. This is an indispensable book for students and scholars seeking to understand modern Japan.

Author : Fumie Kumagai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812871855

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Family Issues on Marriage, Divorce, and Older Adults in Japan by Fumie Kumagai Pdf

This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses. In analyzing Japanese family issues such as demographic changes, courtship and marriage, international marriage, divorce, late-life divorce, and the elderly living alone, this book emphasizes the significance of two theoretical frameworks: the dual structure and regional variations of the community network in Japan. By emphasizing the extensive cultural diversity from one region to another, this book represents a paradigm shift from former studies of Japanese families, which relied mostly on national average data. The method of analysis adopted in the study is qualitative, with a historical perspective. The book is thus an invitation to more in-depth, qualitative dialogue in the field of family sociology in Japan. This book will be of great interest not only to Asian scholars, but also to other specialists in comparative family studies around the world.

Author : Josef Kreiner,Ulrich Mèohwald,Hans Dieter Ölschleger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9004105166

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Modern Japanese society / edited by Josef Kreiner, Ulrich Hohwald and Hans Dieter Olschleger. by Josef Kreiner,Ulrich Mèohwald,Hans Dieter Ölschleger Pdf

Is Japanese society essentially different from other modern industrialized societies, or not? This survey work with contributions from the leading scholars in this complicated field, presents a full overview of the most important aspects of Japanese society which may lead the reader to find an answer to these two often-asked questions. Japanese society, defined as those institutions shaping the life of individuals and groups, as well as being responsible for the dynamics of social development, is shown to be as modern as any other industrialized society; definitely distinct, though, are the ways in which institutions are defined and organised as a result of different social and historical roots of the process of modernization.

Author : Diana Adis Tahhan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317808343

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The Japanese Family by Diana Adis Tahhan Pdf

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 : Fumie Kumagai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015076196792

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Families in Japan by Fumie Kumagai Pdf

Fumie Kumagai, a Japanese family sociologist with keen insight into regional variations and a comparative perspective, analyzes the dynamics and variations in Japanese families throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The theoretical frameworks utilized are the dual structural perspective and the community network in the Information Age Society. This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses. It is a paradigm shift from former studies of Japanese families, which relied on national average data only. The focus is on sociocultural variations and the diversity of families in Japan. Topics include marriage, divorce, fertility rates, the elderly, labor force participation, population decline, trends among youth, and the changing roles of women.