Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies

by Ishida; Hiroshi

• ISBN13: 9780415474757
• ISBN10: 0415474752
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial society 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.

Author Biography

Hiroshi Ishida is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan. David H. Slater is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Studies at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xii
Contributors	p. xiii
Series editors' preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Social class in Japan	p. 1
Class structure	p. 31
Does class matter in Japan? Demographics of class structure and class mobility from a comparative perspective	p. 33
Marriage as an association of social classes in a low fertility rate society: towards a new theory of social stratification	p. 57
Class sorting	p. 85
From credential society to "learning capital" society: a rearticulation of class formation in Japanese education and society	p. 87
Social class and economic life chances in post-industrial Japan: the "lost generation"	p. 114
Class socialization	p. 135
The "new working class" of urban Japan: socialization and contradiction from middle school to the labor market	p. 137
What color is your parachute? The post-degree society	p. 170
Class strategies	p. 195
Motherhood and class: gender, class, and reproductive practices among Japanese single mothers	p. 197
How ethnic minorities experience social mobility in Japan: an ethnographic study of Peruvian migrants	p. 221
Index	p. 239
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