In:
Paragrana, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 22, No. 1 ( 2013-06), p. 17-27
Abstract:
Regularly and irregularly occurring events at which surprisingly high degrees of physical and mental energy as well as large quantities of goods and money are required, and need to be procured in forms hardly open to individual choice and deliberation, abound in Japan. The corresponding complex rules are especially conspicuous on the level of direct interpersonal exchange, where the uninterrupted balance between outgoing investment and incoming return on investment is considered essential to maintain the close-knit social order that constitutes not just tradition but quite specifically the normative basis for Japan’s self-image as a leading post-war economic power. In many ways this close-knit order contrasts with concepts we might hold about a modern, pluralistic society. Today we face a situation where the continued propagation of correct rules for supplying goods, money and personal energy stands in increasing conflict with the economic and structural means to do so, and with any calculated interest in specific social contexts thus to be maintained
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2196-6885
,
0938-0116
DOI:
10.1524/para.2013.0003
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
2013
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1133144-6
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2462174-2
SSG:
0
