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Difference and Modernity - Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society (Hardcover)
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Difference and Modernity - Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
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The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and
intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do
societies that have not experienced the same historical development
as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity,
or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only
non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged
capitalist-industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions
to social theory. Is Japan in fact 'unique' and as such is it a
society which escapes the net of conventional sociological
abstractions? The book questions how special Japanese society
really is, the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the
fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society, and inquires
as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and
broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore
and categorize the social and cultural worlds.
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