City life in Japan : a study of a Tokyo ward : with new introduction Tokyo 1950 revisited : an astonishing half-century of change
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City life in Japan : a study of a Tokyo ward : with new introduction Tokyo 1950 revisited : an astonishing half-century of change
(Classic paperbacks)
Japan Library, 1999
Available at 38 libraries
  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
"1st published 1958 by University of California Press & Routledge and Kegan Paul"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Incorporating a new expanded introduction. The continuing relevance of Ron Dore's classic study of Japanese urban life and social structures is widely accepted by urban sociologists and other social scientists concerned with the study of modern Japan.
Table of Contents
- I: Introductory
- 1: Aims and Limitations
- 2: Shitayama-cho
- II: Levels and Standards of Living
- 3: Some Sketches
- 4: Houses and Apartment Blocks
- 5: Family Income and Expenditure
- 6: Health and Security
- 7: Progress and Planning
- III: The Family
- 8: The Japanese Family System
- 9: Household Composition in Shitayama-cho
- 10: The 'House'
- 11: Husbands and Wives
- IV: The Wider World
- 12: Getting on
- 13: Political Attitudes
- 14: Education
- 15: Leisure
- 16: Neighbours and Friends
- 17: The Ward
- V: Religion and Morality
- 18: Main Trends of Religious Development
- 19: The Local and the National Community
- 20: Family Rites
- 21: The Individual and the Kami
- 22: Present-day Religious Teachings
- 23: Beliefs of 'the Uncommitted'
- 24: Society and the Individual
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