Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? - Brossura

Mathews, Gordon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415384915 ISBN 13: 9780415384919

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2005

Riassunto

This book argues that the generation gap in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order; rather it signifies something much more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan.

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L'autore:

Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001).
Bruce White is Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at Doshisha University,
Kyoto, Japan.

Contenuti:

Part 1: The Japanese Generational Divide  1. The Generation Gap in Japanese Society since the 1960s  2. Why are Japanese Youth Today so Passive?  3. The Local Roots of Global Citizenship: Generational Change in a Kyushu Hamlet  Part 2: How Teenagers Cope With the Adult World  4. How Japanese Teenagers Cope: Social Pressures and Personal Responses  5. Youth Fashion and Changing Beautification Practices  6. 'Guiding' Japan's University Students through the Generation Gap  Part 3: How Young Adults Challenge the Social Order  7. Seeking a Career, Finding a Job: How Young People Enter and Resist the Japanese World of Work  8. Mothers and Their Unmarried Daughters: An Intimate Look at Generational Change  9. What Happens When They Come Back: How Japanese Young People with Foreign University Degrees Experience the Japanese Workplace  10. Centered Selves and Life Choices: Changing Attitudes of Young Educated Mothers  Epilogue: Are Japanese Young People Creating a New Society?

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415384915
• ISBN 13: 9780415384919
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 220