The State Bearing Gifts - Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education (Paperback)

Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitima

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Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	Brian J McVeigh
Dimensions:	232 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-1345-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Promotions
LSN:	0-7391-1345-3
Barcode:	9780739113455

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