Sociology of Hikikomori - Experiences of Isolation, Family Dependency, and Social Policy in

Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Glossary of Japanese Terms
Preface
Chapter 1 The Hikikomori Experience and Ambivalence
Chapter 2 Self-Categorization as Hikikomori: Becoming a Hikikomori Subject
Chapter 3 Hikikomori as a Japanese Social Problem: Focusing on Families with Hikikomori Children
Chapter 4 Discourses on the Hikikomori Problem from the 1980s to the 2010s
Chapter 5 On the Difficulty of Participation: From Theoretical and Empirical Considerations of the Situated Self
Chapter 6 Time Perspective in the Hikikomori Experience
Conclusion Japanese Society in the Light of the Hikikomori Experience
References
About the Author

About the author

Teppei Sekimizu is associate professor of sociology in the Faculty of Social Welfare at Rissho University, Japan, author of Sociology of Hikikomori Experience in Japanese, and coauthor of Sociology of Hikikomori and Their Family and the Hikikomori White Paper in Japanese.

Summary

Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Teppei Sekimizu
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781666900941
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-094-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Psychiatry, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Diseases & disorders, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Psychiatric & mental disorders, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies