Japan's engineering ethics and Western culture : social status, democracy, and economic globalization
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Japan's engineering ethics and Western culture : social status, democracy, and economic globalization
Lexington Books, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Given that engineering significantly affects modern society, ensuring its reliability is essential. How then should society implement engineering ethics to ensure its reliability? Can we expect engineering ethics to be nurtured naturally in the practice of engineering communities? If not, should the subject be compulsory in educational programs? Japan is among the most advanced countries with respect to engineering; however, it was not until the end of the 1990s that the current engineering ethics education was introduced into engineering education programs. While economic globalization played a significant role in promoting this introduction, expectations of Western individualistic ethics and a hesitation toward a foreign culture laid the foundation. Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture: Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization examines the broad historical process from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Even though the process was rooted in Japan's original culture and influenced by the ideologies of respective periods, such as nationalism and democracy, it consistently acknowledged trends from the US and other Western countries. Kenichi Natsume also discusses this history from an even more comprehensive perspective, including not only engineering education but also science, technology, industry, and higher education policies, as well as various issues in science, technology, and society (STS) studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Engineering Ethics in Prewar Japan
Engineering Education and Ethics in Postwar Democratization
Import of the Western Engineering System and Its Ethics
Industry-Academia Cooperation: The Ideal and the Real
The Growth of Industrial and Practical Demands
The Globalization of Engineering Qualification and Ethics
The Globalization of Engineering Education and Ethics
Conclusion
Supplemental Glossary
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