Order By Accident : The Origins And Consequences Of Group Conformity In Contemporary Japan

ISBN-13: 9780813339214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 171 str.

Alan S. Miller; Satoshi Kanazawa; Alan S. Miller

Opis

While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys a safe society. However, Japan pays a price--the loss of personal freedom, and the inability to exploit its citizens' talents.In Order by Accident, Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa discuss the consequences of high social order in Japan. They integrate a wide range of scholarship on Japan, ranging from studies by criminologists, to religious studies, to the most current social psychological studies. The results are sometimes startling and counterintuitive, since the same theory of social order explains equally well why Japan has an orderly society with low street crimes, but is plagued with problems such as white collar crime.

Spis treści

Theoretical Orientation -- Social Order and Social Control: An Introduction -- The Solidaristic Theory of Social Order -- Social Institutions -- The Education System: Social Initiation -- Work: A Continuation -- The Family -- Crime -- Nonintuitive Consequences -- Crime Revisited: White-Collar Crimes -- The Religious Landscape of Japan -- Trust -- Speculations and Conclusions -- The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions -- Conclusion

O autorze

Alan Miller