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Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Paperback)
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Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Paperback)
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies
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Loot Price R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
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This study is a result of three continuous years of fieldwork in a
hamlet in rural Japan. The data presented and analyzed here consist
of records from participant observation, formal and informal
interviews, casual conversation and formal questionnaires, and
public and private documents. The subject of this research is group
decision making, and the results of this process are, after all, a
matter of public record. The major conclusions of this study are
outlined in their simplest and most straightforward form. A hamlet
is fundamentally a nexus for the organization of productive
exchange among member households, the form of exchange through
which two or more parties actively combine their resources to
produce something of value not available, or as cheaply available,
to any of them separately. Defection from productive exchange
agreements by hamlet members is reduced by making access to future
valuable transactions and corporate property contingent upon the
integrity of each current exchange transaction. This method of
combining a common interest in production with contingent access to
productive resources is termed mutual investment and is the major
source of consensus in hamlet decision making. When only cooperate
resources are at issue, decisions regularly result in unanimity.
When a course of action can be implemented only if hamlet members
relinquish control over individually held resources, a division
will emerge among the membership. Whether or not a formal vote is
taken, the distribution of differing opinion will be known through
more informal means of communication. In all cases of division, by
the time the course of action to be implemented is formally
announced, the minority in opposition will be extremely small. The
question then must be resolved whether those in the minority will
participate in the implementation or resign as hamlet members. This
book is written with two rather disparate audiences in mind:
readers interested primarily in exchange and decision-making
phenomenon, on the one hand, and readers interested primarily in
the unity of experience represented by the Japanese sensibility, on
the other.
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