1st Edition
Social Class in Contemporary Japan Structures, Sorting and Strategies
1. Social Class Analysis as a Research Program Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater Part I: Class Structure 2. Does Class Matter in Japan? Demographics of Class Structure and Class Mobility from a Comparative Perspective Hiroshi Ishida 3. Marriage as an Association of Social Classes in a Low Fertility Rate Society: Towards a New Theory of Social Stratification Sawako Shirahase Part II: Class Sorting 4. From Credential Society to "Learning Capital" Society: A Rearticulation of Class Formation in Japanese Education and Society Takehiko Kariya 5. Social Class and Economic Life Chances in Post-Industrial Japan: The "Lost Generation" Mary C. Brinton Part III: Class Socialization 6. The "New Working Class" of Urban Japan: Socialization and Contradiction from Middle School to the Labor Market David H. Slater 7. What Color is Your Parachute? The Post-Pedigree Society Amy Borovoy Part IV: Class Strategies 8. Motherhood and Class: Gender, Class, and Reproductive Practices among Japanese Single Mothers Aya Ezawa 9. How Ethnic Minorities Experience Social Mobility in Japan: An Ethnographic Study of Peruvian Migrants Ayumi Takenaka
Biography
Hiroshi Ishida is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
David H. Slater is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Studies at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan.
