Japan's New Middle Class - Couverture rigide

Vogel, Ezra F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442223715 ISBN 13 : 9781442223714

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Synopsis

This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family.

In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new social class-the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University.

Suzanne Hall Vogel (1931-2012) was a psychotherapist with University Health Services at Harvard University.

William W. Kelly is professor of anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442223715
• ISBN 13: 9781442223714
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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