Format:
Online Ressource (xxv, 346 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9781442221963
,
1442221968
Series Statement:
Asia
Content:
This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new social class, the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
9781442223714
Additional Edition:
1442223715
Additional Edition:
9781442221956
Additional Edition:
144222195X
Additional Edition:
9781442223714
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vogel, Ezra F Japan's New Middle Class Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2013 9781442223714
Language:
English
Keywords:
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