基本説明
Japan is the only major industrial society yet to emerge outside the West, yet Japanese society is very different from Western society and must be understood in its own terms.
Full Description
First published in 1994. Many Japanese sociologists tend to regard the existence of local communal relationships in Japan as pre-modern, traditional and irrational. But the present author thinks of these as the primary charge of the move to post-modern societies in Japan. With field research caried out in Shimoda city in Shizuoka prefecture, Yokoshiba town in Chiba prefecture, Okaya city, Suwa city and Shimosuwa town in Nagano prefecture.
Contents
Part 1; Chapter 1 Sociology in Japan; Chapter 2 The Modernization of Japanese Society; Chapter 3 Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period; Part 2 Part II; Chapter 4 A Critical Evaluation of the Sociological Thought of Tadashi Fukutake, Rural Sociologist of Postwar Japan; Chapter 5 Tradition and Community Power Structure in Japan; Chapter 6 The Citizens’ Movement against Environmental Destruction in Japan; Part 3 Part III; Chapter 7 The TennÅsei Ideology and Japan’s Wars of Aggression; Chapter 8 Japanese Capitalism and the Extended Family System â€" Modernization and Tradition in a Local Community; Chapter 9 The Japanese Images of the World;
