I. INTRODUCTION: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE

(Family system and its variants. vertical group structure)

Texts:  White: Part I, Kingston Ch. 1, Weiner Ch. 1

READINGS:  Befu, "An Ethnography of a Dinner Entertainment in Japan"

history chart amae

map forms, types, responses 1 2

(Amae relationships, in-group/out-group and public/private orientations, consensus decision-making, language usage)

READINGS:  Bestor "Conflict, Legitimacy and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood" and Ishida, "Conflict and Its Accommodations: Omote-Ura and Uchi-Soto Relations"

Texts: White Part II

(Early childhood socialization, pattern and role learning, small group dynamics in the family, at work and at play)

Films: Sazae San Sazae San 2

Texts: White: Part III, Kingston Ch. 2, 3.

READINGS: Allison, "Producing Mothers, “  Ochai " The Truth About the Nuclearization of the family."

MIDTERM EXAM July 27, 2009

(Three religious and ethical traditions: Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, Emperor system, Taoism,  and ideology, on-giri ethics)

Texts: Nelson, John, all. Weiner Ch. 2, 3, 4.

READINGS: Pelzel "Human Nature in Japanese Myths" Ames, “Bushido: Mode or Ethic?” Lamont—Brown “Japan’s Imperial Family: Its role and Meaning in Modern Japan.”

Films: Inuyasha, Princess Mononoke

(education system, exam system, bureaucratization, White-collar bureaucracies, employment system)

Films: Japanese Eduction in Crisis, A Taxing Woman

READINGS: Shiizu: Japanese Entrance Exams, Kerr "Education"
Texts: Kingston Ch. 4, 5, 6, Weiner Ch. 6, 7.

VI. WOMEN
 (changing role of women in society and family abortion, abuse)

Films: Karayuki San

READINGS:Chung "The Origin and Development of the Military Sexual Slavery Problem in Imperial Japan" Yoshihama, “Breaking the web of abuse and silence: voices of battered women in Japan,”Goro, Fujiyama-Koriyama, Fukao Reich,  “Abortion trends in Japan 1975-95”

(Korean and Burakumin minorities, Immigrants)

READINGS: Texts: Kingston Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10, Weiner Ch. 8, 10.