Difference & Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

ISBN-13: 9780710305077 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 152 str.

John Clammer; J. R. Clammer

Opis

Examines the relevance of some major aspects and assumptions of contemporary social and cultural theory to Japanese society - which has a very different history and conception of its self-identity from the Western ones in which the modern social sciences have almost exclusively arisen.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From Modernity to Postmodernity?; Chapter 3 High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity; Chapter 4 Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City; Chapter 5 Natural Being/Social Being; Chapter 6 Modernity and the Self; Chapter 7 Hierarchy, ‘Group’ and Individual; Chapter 8 Social Theory and the Part icularities of Asian Modernity;

O autorze

John Clammer