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Essential reading for students of Japanese society, An Introduction to Japanese Society now enters its third edition. Here, internationally renowned scholar, Yoshio Sugimoto, writes a sophisticated, yet highly readable and lucid text, using both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. The book challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. Covering all aspects of Japanese society, it includes chapters on class, geographical and generational variation, work, education, gender, minorities, popular culture and the establishment. This new edition features sections on: Japan's cultural capitalism; the decline of the conventional Japanese management model; the rise of the 'socially divided society' thesis; changes of government; the spread of manga, animation and Japan's popular culture overseas; and the expansion of civil society in Japan.
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An Introduction to Japanese Society is a provocative, insightful and highly accessible book comprehensively examining contemporary Japanese society. It provides a thorough and critical analysis of the dominant view that Japanese society is strongly characterised by 'groupism and homogeneity'. Yoshio Sugimoto contests the notion that Japanese society comprises an extremely uniform culture, drawing attention to the subcultural diversity and class competition that exists within it. Sugimoto's views as an 'insider/outsider', having spent many years both in Japan and overseas, are insightful and probing. The book's accessibility and coverage of a broad range of issues, such as education, cultural diversity, power relations, politics and gender and family, makes it essential not only for students of Japan worldwide, but also for professional and lay people seeking a general introduction.
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形式:ペーパーバック
ネイティブの日本人として、普段気づかないちょっとした言動から、
日本社会の特徴など全般的にふれてあって、日本人でも十分楽しめる
社会学書だと思います。特にpopular cultureなどは詳しく書いてあり、
日本人でもふだん気づかないようなことを改めて感じることが多かったです。
日本社会の特徴など全般的にふれてあって、日本人でも十分楽しめる
社会学書だと思います。特にpopular cultureなどは詳しく書いてあり、
日本人でもふだん気づかないようなことを改めて感じることが多かったです。
文章もそれほど難しくないので、中級以上の方が英語を勉強するのにも、いいと思います。写真や絵が少ないのが少し残念ですが、日本について全般的に知りたい人にはぴったりではないでしょうか。
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"Friendly Authoritarianism"
2000/3/28
形式:ペーパーバック
An Introduction to Japanese Society is a book no serious student of Japan (or East Asia generally) can afford to pass up. It affords an unflinching and incisive look at the nature of Japanese democracy by a Japanese scholar who pulls no punches. While quite a few Western scholars have characterized the Japanese elementary school classroom, for example, as less authoritarian than its American counterpart, Sugimoto contends that authoritarianism is pronounced but subtly pervasive throughout Japanese society. Instead of accentuating top-down coercion by authorities, as Korean and Chinese societies do, Japanese authoritarianism is more subtle, relying heavily on indirect controls such as small group pressures, extensive surveillance, moralistic ideologies, positive reinforcements, mythologies of benevolent leadership, and pleasant rituals to mask underlying and potentially coercive power. As Sugimoto persuasively demonstrates, "Japanese friendly authoritarianism does not normally exhibit its coercive face." But when all else fails, it can and does exercise the full measure of its power. Sugimoto's book should inspire more Western scholars to take a closer look at the informal mechanisms of control in Japanese society. If Sugimoto is right, Japan has far to go before it becomes a full-fledged democracy.
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I wasn't impressed
2012/4/13
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
I'm not a Japan scholar, just a layperson very interested in Japanese culture. I bought this book hoping it would actually be, uh, an introduction to Japanese society (as the title seems to indicate). Instead, though, as the first review indicates, the author has some theses about present-day Japan that he's trying to prove. Fine with me, but then the title doesn't really seem accurate.
I was also hoping for a lot more about Japanese culture: literature, pop culture, gay rights, cinema, gender equality, etc. Instead, there are a lot of very dry chapters about the Japanese economy and the ethnic breakdown of Japan (though, in my opinion, not enough about the social implications of Japan's ethnic composition).
I found this book kind of dull, and the writing pretty dry. Maybe a great book for sociologists and economists of Japan (if they care more about the info than about whether the writing is stellar), but if you're just a random person looking to learn more about Japan, I'd look elsewhere first.
I was also hoping for a lot more about Japanese culture: literature, pop culture, gay rights, cinema, gender equality, etc. Instead, there are a lot of very dry chapters about the Japanese economy and the ethnic breakdown of Japan (though, in my opinion, not enough about the social implications of Japan's ethnic composition).
I found this book kind of dull, and the writing pretty dry. Maybe a great book for sociologists and economists of Japan (if they care more about the info than about whether the writing is stellar), but if you're just a random person looking to learn more about Japan, I'd look elsewhere first.
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