Difference and modernity : social theory and contemporary Japanese society
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Difference and modernity : social theory and contemporary Japanese society
(Routledge library editions, . Japan ; v. 72)
Routledge, 2011
- : hbk
Available at 19 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
ISBN for sub ser. "Japan": 9780415564984
Reprint. Originally published: London : KPI, 1995
Bibliography: p. 134-142
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact 'unique' and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how special Japanese society really is, the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society, and inquires as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social and cultural worlds.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Theorizing Japanese Society 2. From Modernity to Postmodernity? 3. High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity 4. Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City 5. Natural Being/Social Being 6. Modernity and the Self 7. Hierarchy, 'Group' and Individual 8. Social Theory and the Particularities of Asian Modernity Bibliography. Index.
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