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Informationen zum Autor Merry White is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and research associate at the Reischauer Institute! Harvard. She is the author of The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children (1987). Klappentext As she describes the youth culture of Japan! Merry White draws comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence. The result is both engrossing and enlightening. Zusammenfassung Describes the youth culture of Japan, drawing comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Paperback Edition Glossary Introduction 1. Rethinking the Life Course Mixed Messages and Complementary Contradictions in the Creation of Adolescence 2. Youth in Time Culture! History! and the Idea of the Teen 3. Family Time and Space 4. School in the Life of the Teen 5. The Material Child Buying and Bonding 6. Friendship Best Friends and Group Training 7. Sexuality Illusions and Reality 8. Big Thoughts Appendix: School Regulations in Japan Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index Photographs of teenagers in Kyoto and Osaka by Yara Sellin! 1994
