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
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"1st published 1958 by University of California Press & Routledge and Kegan Paul"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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