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Japanese Science: From the Inside
Contributor(s): Coleman, Samuel (Author)
ISBN: 0415510589     ISBN-13: 9780415510585
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy
Dewey: 338.926
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Physical Information: 232 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
 
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This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in university and government laboratories, relations between scientists and lay administrators and the problems encountered by women scientists.
Japanese Science contests the view that Japan's relatively poor scientific record has been the product of cultural factors and instead demonstrates the crucial importance of moribund policy decisions in holiding back dynamic and ambitious scientists.