Losing face : status politics in Japan /
How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1990.
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| Collection: | Philip E. Lilienthal Asian Studies Imprint Series.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8500957 |
Table des matières:
- Status of Japan
- Contemporary Japan as a setting for social conflict
- Intergenerational conflict: status politics in the conservative camp
- Gender-based conflict: the revolt of the tea pourers
- Burakumin protest: the incident at Yoka High School
- The view from below: mobilizing a protest
- The Japanese repertoire of collective action
- The authorities respond
- Goals reconsidered: the issue of success
- Social conflict, authority, and the state.