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.

Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Pharr, Susan J.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1990.
Serija:Philip E. Lilienthal Asian Studies Imprint Series.
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8500957
Sadržaj:
  • 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.