Difference and Modernity : Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

ISBN-13: 9780415593359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 154 str.

John Clammer;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses fundamental questions to social theory. This book questions how special Japanese society really is.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Theorizing Japanese Society  2. From Modernity to Postmodernity?  3. High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity  4. Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City  5. Natural Being/Social Being  6. Modernity and the Self  7. Hierarchy, ‘Group’ and Individual  8. Social Theory and the Particularities of Asian Modernity  Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

John Clammer