Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution

ISBN-13: 9780710303424 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 250 str.

Eisenstadt, S. N.

Opis

The sumo wrestlers on the cover provide an interesting initial perspective. Social scientists examine various aspects of the subject in industrial relations, the labor market, religion, leisure, bureaucracy and government. Considers how Japanese capitalism differs from Western capitalism how Japanes

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Contrasts and Comparisons in the Analysis of Conflict Management in Japan, E. Ben-Ari; Chapter 2 Patterns of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Japan, S. N. Eisenstadt; Part 2 Institutional Formation and Conflict Resolution in the Economic Sphere; Chapter 3 The Japanese Economy, Ch. Johnson; Chapter 4 Class Conflict, Corporatism and Comparison, M. Shalev; Chapter 5 Ritual, Strikes, Ceremonial Slowdowns, E. Ben-Ari; Part 3 Conflict Resolution in the Political and Cultural Spheres; Chapter 6 Victors without Vanquished, B. Shillony; Chapter 7 Resolving and Managing Policy Conflict, E. Harari; Chapter 8 Conflict and Non-Weberian Bureaucracy in Japan, H. Befu; Chapter 9 Religious Conflict in a Japanese Town, M. Ashkenazi; Part 4 Concluding Observations; Chapter 10 Four Models of Japanese Society and their Relevance to Conflict, H. Befu;

O autorze

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt is Rose Isaacs Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among the many books he has written are Israeli Society (Basic Books, 1967), From Generation to Generation (The Free Press, 1971), Revolutions and the Transformation of Societies (The Free Press, 1978) and (with A. Shahar) Society, Culture and Urbanization (Sage, 1987). Among the books he has recently edited are Patterns of Modernity (Francis Pinter, 1987), (with M. Abitbol and N. Chazan) The Early State in African Perspective (Brill, 1988) and (with I. Silber) Knowledge and Society (JAI Press, 1988)., Eyal Ben-Ari is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written a number of articles about urban communities in Japan (published in Administration and Society, Cambridge Anthropology and International Journal of Sociology of the Family), and co-edited (with Brian Moeran and James Valentine) Unwrapping Japan (Manchester University Press).