Pop culture and the everyday in Japan : sociological perspectives
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Bibliographic Information
Pop culture and the everyday in Japan : sociological perspectives
(Japanese society series)
Trans Pacific Press, 2012
- Other Title
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Bunka shakaigaku no shiza : nomerikomu media bunka to soko ni aru nichijo no bunka
文化社会学の視座 : のめりこむメディア文化とそこにある日常の文化
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  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
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Note
Bibliography: p. 282-295
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Manga, anime, J-pop, and other forms of Japan's mass culture are increasingly popular around the world, a situation which requires structural, demographic, and communicative research from sociological perspectives.
In this study, a group of young Japanese sociologists scrutinises the sociological foundations of the ways in which the Japanese people produce and consume cultural commodities and live their everyday lives surrounded by these products.
This study includes an examination of:
The dependency of Japan's youth on mobile phones.
Modes of television viewing.
Infatuations with animation characters.
Network-formation through rock festivals.
Family relations.
Local culture.
Fashion.
Work orientations.
The national consciousness as an aspect of their 'everyday culture'.
The book presents the landscape of Japanese popular culture as depicted by the very sociologists who themselves live these cultural lives within Japan.
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