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Uniforms are not unique to Japan, but their popularity there
suggests important linkages: material culture, politico-economic
projects, bodily management, and the construction of subjectivity
are all connected to the wearing of uniforms. This book examines
what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the
expression of economic nationalism in Japan. Conformity in dress is
especially apparent amongst students, who are required to wear
uniforms by most schools. Drawing on concrete examples, the author
focuses particularly on student uniforms, which are key socializing
objects in Japan's politico-economic order, but also examines
'office ladies' (secretaries), 'salary men' (white collar workers),
service personnel, and housewives, who wear a type of uniformed
dress. Arguing that uniforms can be viewed as material markers of a
life cycle managed by powerful politico-economic institutions, he
also shows that resistance to official state projects is expressed
by 'anti-uniforming' modes of self.
Through a focus on the contributions of pioneers such as Motora
Yujiro (1858-1912) and Matsumoto Matataro (1865-1943), this book
explores the origins of Japanese psychology, charting
cross-cultural connections, commonalities, and the transition from
religious-moralistic to secular-scientific definitions of human
nature. Emerging at the intersection of philosophy, pedagogy,
physiology, and physics, psychology in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries confronted the pressures of industrialization and became
allied with attempts to integrate individual subjectivities into
larger institutions and organizations. Such social management was
accomplished through Japan's establishment of a schooling system
that incorporated psychological research, making educational
practices both products of and the driving force behind changing
notions of selfhood. In response to new forms of labor and loyalty,
applied psychology led to or became implicated in personality
tests, personnel selection, therapy, counseling, military science,
colonial policies, and "national spirit." The birth of Japanese
psychology, however, was more than a mere adaptation to the
challenges of modernity: it heralded a transformation of the very
mental processes it claimed to be exploring. With detailed
appendices, tables and charts to provide readers with a meticulous
and thorough exploration of the subject and adopting a truly
comparative perspective, The History of Japanese Psychology is a
unique study that will be valuable to students and scholars of
Japanese intellectual history and the history of psychology.
How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space,
and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question
in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self
through the Centuries by exploring "meta-framing:" our
ever-increasing capability to "step back" from the environment,
search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and
generate "as if" forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and
vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have
altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective
capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social
circumstances.
Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step
outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in
the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese
politics. To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a
rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet at the same time a
deeply ritualistic and ceremonial society. This adventurous new
study demonstrates how these nominally conflicting impressions of
Japan can be reconciled and a greater understanding of the state
achieved.
One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and
their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges.
Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little
or no job security. Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a
teacher at one such institution to explore the cultural and social
processes used to promote 'femininity' in Japanese women. His
detailed and ethnographically-informed study considers how the
students of these institutions are socialized to fit their future
dual roles of employees and mothers, and illuminates the
sociopolitical role that the colleges play in Japanese society as a
whole.
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
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 legitimacy.
In this fresh and original analysis, Brian J. McVeigh confronts
both the demonizers and apologists of Japan. He argues persuasively
that far from being unique, Japanese nationalism becomes
demystified once 'management' and 'mysticism' the same processes
and practices that operate in other national states are taken into
account. Stripping away Orientalist-inspired misconceptions, the
author stresses the variety and relative intensity of nationalisms,
ranging from economic, ethnic, and educational to cultural,
gendered, and religious. He moves beyond state-centered ideologies
to explore the linkages between official and popular nationalisms
and the complex interplay of ethnocultural, ethnopolitical, and
ethnoracial forms of identity. The ambiguity and everydayness of
nationalism, McVeigh contends, explain its enduring power. He
concludes that modern Japan is imbued with a deeply rooted legacy
of 'renovationism' or 'reform nationalism' that accounts for its
streamlined state structures, guarded economic nationalism, and
highly scrutinized relationship with the rest of the world.
Highlighting the pluralism of identity among Japanese, this book
will be an invaluable corrective to recent works that glibly
proclaim the emergence of 'globalization, ' 'internationalization,
' and 'convergence.'"
Although Japanese universities have relied on information
technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations
are undermined by lags in implementing that technology. This
innovative edited volume argues that lags in IT implementation in
Japanese education are created by contradictory and challenging
responses of the social environment. If this dialectic can be
visualized as having hands, the right avidly promotes IT, while the
left hand simultaneously blocks it. The result, of course, is an
impasse. The issues central to this stalemate are significant
because they point beyond the schools, to a broader set of problem
areas in Japanese society. The contributors to Roadblocks on the
Information Highway discover and discuss the contradictions
inherent in Japanese society and culture as they are played out in
the social contexts of IT service providers, web masters, and
classroom teachers who implement IT. They then show how these
contradictions indicate broader, structural problems that pervade
the dynamic between Japanese education and the state and business
sectors. Ultimately, in a reach that goes beyond Japan, this book
examines relationships between technology and society, persuasively
convincing readers that the modern age has created an inextricable
link between the two.
Although Japanese universities have relied on information
technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations
are undermined by lags in implementing that technology. This
innovative edited volume argues that lags in IT implementation in
Japanese education are created by contradictory and challenging
responses of the social environment. If this dialectic can be
visualized as having hands, the right avidly promotes IT, while the
left hand simultaneously blocks it. The result, of course, is an
impasse. The issues central to this stalemate are significant
because they point beyond the schools, to a broader set of problem
areas in Japanese society. The contributors to Roadblocks on the
Information Highway discover and discuss the contradictions
inherent in Japanese society and culture as they are played out in
the social contexts of IT service providers, web masters, and
classroom teachers who implement IT. They then show how these
contradictions indicate broader, structural problems that pervade
the dynamic between Japanese education and the state and business
sectors. Ultimately, in a reach that goes beyond Japan, this book
examines relationships between technology and society, persuasively
convincing readers that the modern age has created an inextricable
link between the two.
In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese "quality education",
McVeigh investigates the consequences of what happens when
statistical and corporatist forces monopolize the purpose of
schooling and the boundary between education and employment is
blurred.
In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese "quality education",
McVeigh investigates the consequences of what happens when
statistical and corporatist forces monopolize the purpose of
schooling and the boundary between education and employment is
blurred.
Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese politics. To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet at the same time a deeply ritualistic and ceremonial society. This adventurous new study demonstrates how these nominally conflicting impressions of Japan can be reconciled and a greater understanding of the state achieved.
One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security. Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to explore the cultural and social processes used to promote 'femininity' in Japanese women. His detailed and ethnographically-informed study considers how the students of these institutions are socialized to fit their future dual roles of employees and mothers, and illuminates the sociopolitical role that the colleges play in Japanese society as a whole.
Evolutionary psychology explains why some mental illnesses
developed, but to answer questions about how to improve our mental
well-being in the face of these challenges-how the mind works to
heal itself-we should look to more recent changes in mentality. In
The Self-Healing Mind, mental health counsellor and anthropologist
Brian J. McVeigh postulates that around 1000 BCE, population
expansion and social complexity forced people to learn "conscious
interiority"-a package of cognitive capabilities that culturally
upgraded mentality. He argues that the mental processes that help
us get through the day are the same ones that can heal our psyches.
Adopting a common factors and positive psychology perspective,
McVeigh enumerates and defines these active ingredients of the
self-healing mind: mental space, introception, self-observing and
observed, self-narratization, excerption, consilience,
concentration, suppression, self-authorization, self-autonomy, and
self-reflexivity. McVeigh shows how these capabilities underlie the
effectiveness of psychotherapeutic techniques and interventions.
Though meta-framing effects of psyche's recuperative properties
correct distorted cognition and grant us remarkable adaptive
abilities, they sometimes spiral out of control, resulting in
runaway consciousness and certain mental disorders. This book also
addresses how maladaptive processes snowball and come to need
restraint themselves. With insights from counseling, psychotherapy,
anthropology, and history, The Self-Healing Mind will appeal to
practitioners, researchers, and anyone interested in neurocultural
plasticity and how therapeutically-directed consciousness repairs
the mind.
Uniforms are not unique to Japan, but their popularity there
suggests important linkages: material culture, politico-economic
projects, bodily management, and the construction of subjectivity
are all connected to the wearing of uniforms. This book examines
what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the
expression of economic nationalism in Japan. Conformity in dress is
especially apparent amongst students, who are required to wear
uniforms by most schools. Drawing on concrete examples, the author
focuses particularly on student uniforms, which are key socializing
objects in Japan's politico-economic order, but also examines
'office ladies' (secretaries), 'salary men' (white collar workers),
service personnel, and housewives, who wear a type of uniformed
dress. Arguing that uniforms can be viewed as material markers of a
life cycle managed by powerful politico-economic institutions, he
also shows that resistance to official state projects is expressed
by 'anti-uniforming' modes of self.
Through a focus on the contributions of pioneers such as Motora
Yujiro (1858-1912) and Matsumoto Matataro (1865-1943), this book
explores the origins of Japanese psychology, charting
cross-cultural connections, commonalities, and the transition from
religious-moralistic to secular-scientific definitions of human
nature. Emerging at the intersection of philosophy, pedagogy,
physiology, and physics, psychology in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries confronted the pressures of industrialization and became
allied with attempts to integrate individual subjectivities into
larger institutions and organizations. Such social management was
accomplished through Japan's establishment of a schooling system
that incorporated psychological research, making educational
practices both products of and the driving force behind changing
notions of selfhood. In response to new forms of labor and loyalty,
applied psychology led to or became implicated in personality
tests, personnel selection, therapy, counseling, military science,
colonial policies, and "national spirit." The birth of Japanese
psychology, however, was more than a mere adaptation to the
challenges of modernity: it heralded a transformation of the very
mental processes it claimed to be exploring. With detailed
appendices, tables and charts to provide readers with a meticulous
and thorough exploration of the subject and adopting a truly
comparative perspective, The History of Japanese Psychology is a
unique study that will be valuable to students and scholars of
Japanese intellectual history and the history of psychology.
How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space,
and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question
in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self
through the Centuries by exploring "meta-framing:" our
ever-increasing capability to "step back" from the environment,
search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and
generate "as if" forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and
vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have
altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective
capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social
circumstances.
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