A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs

ISBN-13: 9780415669276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str.

Roger Goodman

Opis

This text puts forth a sociology of Japanese youth problems showing that the Japanese media draw on an equally, if not more, perplexing gallery of social categories when it discusses youth than affluent Western societies.

Spis treści

1. Making Sense of Youth Problems, Tuukka Toivonen and Yuki Imoto   2. From Pitiful to Privileged? The Fifty Year Story of the Changing Perception and Status of Japan’s Returnee Children (kikokushijo), Roger Goodman   3. Narratives and Statistics: How Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) Was Sold, Sharon Kinsella   4. Taibatsu: From Educational Solution to Social Problem to Marginalized Non-Issue, Aaron Miller   5. The ‘Discovery’ and ‘Rediscovery’ of Child Abuse (jidō gyakutai) in Japan, Roger Goodman   6. Hikikomori: How Private Isolation Caught the Public Eye, Sachiko Horiguchi   7. NEETs: The Strategy within the Category, Tuukka Toivonen   8. Shifting Landscapes: The Social Context of Youth Problems in an Ageing Nation, Roger Goodman