Gordon (Hrsg.) Mathews

Japan's Changing Generations

Are Young People Creating a New Society?

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Japan's Changing Generations argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of postwar decades. It argues that while young people in Japan in their teens, twenties and early thirties are not engaged in overt social or political resistance, they are turning against the existing Japanese social order, whose legitimacy has been undermined by the past decade of economic downturn. The book shows how young people in Jap… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: White, Bruce (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-415-38491-9
EAN: 9780415384919
Produktnummer: 1868691
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 410 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 410

Über den Autor

Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001). Bruce White is Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at Doshisha University,Kyoto, Japan.