Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the
first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and
the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the
bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990 s, the promises of
Japan, Inc., seem far away.
Social Class in Contemporary Japan is the first single volume
that traces the dynamics of social structure, institutional
socialization and class culture through this turbulent period, all
the way into the contemporary neoliberal moment. In an innovative
multi-disciplinary approach that include top scholars working on
quantitative class structure, policy development, and ethnographic
analysis, this volume highlights the centrality of class formation
to our understanding of the many levels of Japanese society. The
chapters each address a different aspect of class formation and
transformation which stand on their own. Taken together, they
document the advantages of putting Japan in the broad comparative
framework of class analysis and the enduring importance of social
class to the analysis of industrial and post-industrial
societies.
Written by a team of contributors from Japan, the US and Europe
this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese
society and culture, as well as those interested in cultural
anthropology and social class alike.
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