The Japanese Family System

Author : Akihiko Kato
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : 落合恵美子
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495463

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture by Yoshio Sugimoto Pdf

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural transformation that took place over the course of the twentieth century, and paints a picture of a nation rich in cultural diversity. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars in the field, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture is an authoritative introduction to this subject.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry,Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520316089

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What Is a Family? by Mary Elizabeth Berry,Marcia Yonemoto Pdf

What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant—but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. These factors led the majority to form stem families, which are a focus of this volume. The essays in this book draw on rich sources—population registers, legal documents, personal archives, and popular literature—to combine accounts of collective practices (such as the adoption of heirs) with intimate portraits of individual actors (such as a murderous wife). They highlight the variety and adaptability of households that, while shaped by a shared social order, do not conform to any stereotypical version of a Japanese family. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Author : Kunio Yanagita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Ancestor worship
ISBN : LCCN:lc75868073

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About Our Ancestors by Kunio Yanagita Pdf

Author : Suzanne Hall Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Richard Ronald,Allison Alexy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139489478

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An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto Pdf

Essential reading for students of Japanese society, An Introduction to Japanese Society now enters its third edition. Here, internationally renowned scholar, Yoshio Sugimoto, writes a sophisticated, yet highly readable and lucid text, using both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. The book challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. Covering all aspects of Japanese society, it includes chapters on class, geographical and generational variation, work, education, gender, minorities, popular culture and the establishment. This new edition features sections on: Japan's cultural capitalism; the decline of the conventional Japanese management model; the rise of the 'socially divided society' thesis; changes of government; the spread of manga, animation and Japan's popular culture overseas; and the expansion of civil society in Japan.

Author : Linda White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317201069

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Gender and the Koseki In Contemporary Japan by Linda White Pdf

The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal control through single-surname households. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of gender hierarchy and structural inequality in Japanese society. Studying several decades of feminist activism and critique of the koseki system, it analyses the strategies of activists who have creatively circumvented koseki rules in order to maintain their natal names in marriage. It examines the case studies of members of the fūfubessei (separate surname movement) and the movement to end discrimination against children born out of wedlock, and in so doing this book illuminates the contradictions in current family law and koseki practice that have animated a generation of feminists in Japan. Demonstrating the effect of the koeski on family, gender, and national identity, this book will be useful for students and scholars of Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Japanese Studies in general.

Author : Robert J. Smith,Richard K. Beardsley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415330394

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Japanese Culture by Robert J. Smith,Richard K. Beardsley Pdf

This book presents an authoritative and illuminating insight into the development and most important characteristics of Japanese society and culture. Approaching the subject from a number of different points of view. Originally published in 1963.

Author : Fanny Hagin Mayer,Yasuyo Ishiwara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:866701003

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About Our Ancestors by Fanny Hagin Mayer,Yasuyo Ishiwara Pdf

Author : Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521529255

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An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto Pdf

This is a provocative, insightful and comprehensive examination of contemporary Japanese society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Setsuko Hani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Families
ISBN : WISC:89092533330

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The Japanese Family System by Setsuko Hani Pdf

Author : David Chapman,Karl Jakob Krogness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134512911

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Japan's Household Registration System and Citizenship by David Chapman,Karl Jakob Krogness Pdf

Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone registered, and in turn, the state receives validity and legitimacy from the registration of its inhabitants. The study of the procedures and mechanisms for identifying and documenting people provides an important window into understanding statecraft, and by examining the koseki system, this book provides a keen insight into social and political change in Japan. By looking through the lens of the koseki system, the book takes both an historical as well as a contemporary approach to understanding Japanese society. In doing so, it develops our understanding of contemporary Japan within the historical context of population management and social control; reveals the social effects and influence of the koseki system throughout its history; and presents new insights into citizenship, nationality and identity. Furthermore, this book develops our knowledge of state functions and indeed the nation state itself, through engaging critically with important issues relating to the koseki while at the same time providing a platform for further investigation. The contributors to this volume utilise a variety of disciplinary areas including history, gender studies, sociology, law and anthropology, and each chapter provides insights that bring us closer to a comprehensive grasp of the role, effects and historical background of what is a crucial and influential instrument of the Japanese state. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese history, Japanese culture and society, Japanese studies, Asian social policy and demography more generally.

Author : Suzanne Hall Vogel,Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781442221710

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The Japanese Family in Transition by Suzanne Hall Vogel,Steven Kent Vogel Pdf

In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to Japan's New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Japan. Now, Suzanne Hall Vogel's compelling sequel traces the evolution of Japanese society over the ensuing decades through the lives of three of these ordinary yet remarkable women and their daughters and granddaughters. Vogel contends that the role of the professional housewife constrained Japanese middle-class women in the postwar era--and yet it empowered them as well. Precisely because of fixed gender roles, with women focusing on the home and children while men focused on work, Japanese housewives had remarkable authority and autonomy within their designated realm. Wives and mothers now have more options than their mothers and grandmothers did, but they find themselves unprepared to cope with this new era of choice. 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.