Readings for Soc 357


I.  INTRODUCTION:  BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE:
(Family system and its variants, vertical group structure)

READINGS     Japanese Society Reader: Befu, "An Ethnography of a Dinner Entertainment in Japan" Levy, "Some Implications of Japanese Social Structure".

Texts:  White: Part One, Lie 5

II.  BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION
(Amae relationships, in-group/out-group and public/private orientations, consensus decision-making, language usage)

READINGS: Japanese Society Reader:  Bestor "Conflict, Legitimacy and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood" and Ishida, "Conflict and Its Accommodations: Omote-Ura and Uchi-Soto Relations" Black, Mendenhall “Resolving Conflicts with the Japanese: Mission Improssible.”

Texts: White: Part Two

III  SOCIALIZATION AND THE FAMILY
(Early childhood socialization, pattern and role learning, small group dynamics in the family, at work and at play)

READINGS: Japanese Society Reader:  Allison, "Producing Mothers, “

Texts: White: Part Three,

IV.  RELIGION, VALUES AND IDEOLOGY
(Three religious and ethical traditions: Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism , Emperor system and ideology, on-giri ethics)

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

Texts: Nelson, John, all,
        
V. EDUCATION
(education system, exam system)

Texts:  Lie: Ch. 1, 2, Kerr


VI  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT
((industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization, globalization White-collar bureaucracies, employment system,)

READINGS: Japanese Society Reader:   Creighton, "Marriage, Motherhood and Career Management in Japan" : Sayle "The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism"

Texts: Lie: Ch. 3, 4, Kerr

VII. WOMEN
(changing role of women in society, abortion, abuse)

READINGS: Japanese Society Reader 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”

VIII  GROUPS AND POINTS OF CONFLICT
(Korean and Burakumin minorities, immigrants)

READINGS:  Texts: Lie: Ch. 5, 6, Kerr

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