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Informationen zum Autor By Ezra F. Vogel - Foreword by William W. Kelly - Contributions by Suzanne Hall Vogel Klappentext 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. 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 class that 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Looking Backward at a Book That Looked ForwardWilliam W. KellyPart I: The Significance of SalaryChapter 1: The Problem and Its SettingChapter 2: The Bureaucratic Setting in PerspectiveChapter 3: The Gateway to Salary: Infernal Entrance ExaminationsPart II: The Family and Other Social SystemsChapter 4: The Consumer's "Bright New Life"Chapter 5: Families View Their GovernmentChapter 6: Community RelationshipsChapter 7: Basic ValuesPart III: Internal Family ProcessesChapter 8: The Decline of the Ie IdealChapter 9: The Division of Labor in the HomeChapter 10: Authority in the FamilyChapter 11: Family SolidarityChapter 12: Child-RearingPart IV: Mamachi in PerspectiveChapter 13: Order Amidst Rapid Social ChangePart V: Mamachi RevisitedChapter 14: Beyond SalaryChapter 15: Beyond Success: Mamachi Thirty Years LaterAfterwordEzra F. VogelAppendix: A Report on the Field WorkSelected Bibliography
