COURSE SCHEDULE

I.  INTRODUCTION:  BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

READINGS: Befu, An Ethnography of a Dinner Entertainment in Japan
                       
II.  FAMILY

READINGS: Allison, Producing Mothers, Ochiai: The Truth About the Nuclearization of the Family, White: Perfectly Japanese (all) Sazae-san I

            FILM: Spirited Away           

III.  EDUCATION

READINGS: Kerr: Ch. 12 Education, Shiizu: Japanese Entrance Exams, Yoneyama & Naito: Problems with the Paradigm: the School as a Factor in Understanding Bullying.

            FILM: Family Game

IV. ECONOMICS AND GOVERNMENT

READINGS:  Bestor: Conflict and Legitimacy in a Tokyo Neighborhood, Ishida; Conflict and Its Accommodations: Omote-Ura and Uchi-Soto Relations, Kerr: Ch. 1  The Land, Ch. 4 Information: A Different View of Reality, Lamont—Brown: Japan’s Imperial Family: Its role and Meaning in Modern Japan, Kingston: Japan’s Quiet Transformations (all)

Midterm February 9, 2010

V.  RELIGION, VALUES AND IDEOLOGY

 READINGS: Pelzel: Human Nature in Japanese Myths, Kisala & Mullins: Religion and Social Crisis in Japan.

           FILM:  A Taxing Woman Returns

Assignment March 2, 2010

VI. WOMEN

READINGS: : Chung The Origin and Development of the Military Sexual Slavery Problem in Imperial Japan, Fujimura-Fanslow & Kameda: Women’s Education and Gender Stratification, Goro, Fujiyama-Koriyama, Fukao Reich; Abortion trends in Japan 1975-95, Yoshihama; Breaking the web of abuse and silence: voices of battered women in Japan

VIII.  MINORITIES
           
  READINGS: Weiner, Japan’s Minorities (all)

FINAL EXAM: Thursday March18, 10-1:00.

Furlough date changed from March 2 to March 4, 2010.