Social mobility in contemporary Japan : educational credentials, class and the labour market in a cross-national perspective
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Bibliographic Information
Social mobility in contemporary Japan : educational credentials, class and the labour market in a cross-national perspective
(St. Antony's/Macmillan series)
Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1995, c1993
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Reprinted (with corrections) 1995"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 281-299
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of 'Japan as an educational credential society' has been debated for a long time in Japan. The book empirically evaluates this idea within the framework of a cross-national comparison with the United States and Britain. The author also examines the patterns of class mobility in Japan within a cross-national perspective and reports similarities and differences in the mobility patterns among the three societies.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables - List of Figures - Foreword
- J.H.Goldthorpe - Acknowledgements - Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan - Data and Variables - The Process of Educational Attainment - The Process of Socio-economic Attainment - Higher Education and the Labour Market - Class Structure and Class Mobility - Class Structure, Status Hierarchies, and Inequality in Labour Market - Conclusions and Prospects - Appendix - Bibliography - Index
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