The state bearing gifts : deception and disaffection in Japanese higher education

著者

• McVeigh, Brian J.

書誌事項

The state bearing gifts : deception and disaffection in Japanese higher education

Brian J. McVeigh

Lexington Books, c2006

注記

Bibliography: p. 263-288

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value,' 'exchange,' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift,' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitimacy.

目次

Chapter 1 The Paradox and Price of the Gift Chapter 2 The Burden of the Beneficiary: Schooling, Legitimacy, and Alienation Chapter 3 Exchange Dramatics: Evaluating the Realness of Value Chapter 4 Dramatizations, Deceptions, and Fronts Chapter 5 Bureaucratic Fetishism and Mutating Institutions Chapter 6 The State as Gift-Giving Machine and Stage Manager Chapter 7 Japan's Strategic Schooling: Education as a Gift from the State Chapter 8 Faces and Fronts: The Licit and Illicit Facets of Japan's Higher Education Chapter 9 Exchanging Untruths at Amadera Women's Academy Chapter 10 Learning National Identity at Amadera Women's Academy Chapter 11 "Examocracy": Examinations as Dramatizations of Self-Worth Chapter 12 Guiding Students through the Official Exchange Circuitry Chapter 13 Education Reform-Mongering: Real and Rhetorical Change Chapter 14 Self-Deception as Alienation: Rethinking Estrangement in Modern Society Chapter 15 Appendix: Varieties of Exchange Chapter 16 A Precis of Alienation

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA78853424
• ISBN:
  • 9780739113448
• LCCN: 2006931369
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lanham, Md.
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 297 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : LA1312
  • DC21 : 378.52
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Education, Higher -- Japan
  • LCSH : Education and state -- Japan