| Japan's New Middle Class Contributor(s): Vogel, Ezra F. (Author), Vogel, Suzanne Hall (Contribution by), Kelly, William W. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 144222195X ISBN-13: 9781442221956 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $58.41 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 305.550 |
| LCCN: 2013013353 |
| Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.01" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 372 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. 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 social class-the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to 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. |