Japanese society
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Japanese society
University of California Press, c1970
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タテ社会の人間関係
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Japanese society / Chie Nakane
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Japanese society / Chie Nakane
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"Published under the auspices of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley"--Added t.p.
Translation of: タテ社会の人間関係
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This short work presents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. Nakane deals with his own society as a social anthropologist using some of the methods which he was accustomed to applying in examining any other society. However, its form is not that of a scientific thesis (as may be seen at once from the absence of a bibliography; the author also refrains from quoting any statistical figures or precise data directly obtained from field surveys). Nakane has tried to construct a structural image of Japanese society, synthesizing the major distinguishing features to be found in Japanese life. He has drawn evidence almost at random from a number of different types of community to be found in Japan today--industrial enterprises, government organizations, educational institutions, intellectual groups, religious communities, political parties, village communities, individual household and so on.
Throughout this investigation of groups in such varied fields, Nakane has concentrated my analysis on individual behavior and interpersonal relations which provide the base of both the group organization and the structural tendencies dominating in the development of a group.
Table of Contents
Preface Chapter One: Criteria of Group Formation 1. Attribute and Frame 2. Emotional Participation and One-to-One Relationships Chapter Two: The Internal Structure of the Group 1. The Development of Ranking 2. The Fundamental Structure of Vertical Organization 3. Qualification of the Leader and Interpersonal Relations in the Group 4. The Undifferentiated Role of the Group Member Chapter Three: The Overall Structure of the Society Chapter Four: Characteristics and Value Orientation of Japanese Man 1. From School to Employment 2. The Web of Comradeship 3. Localism and Tangibility Concluding Remarks Index
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