Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society?

ISBN-13: 9780415322270 / Twarda / 2003 / 220 str.

Mathews, Gordon

Opis

This book argues that the generation gap in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order; rather it signifies something much more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Japanese Generational Divide  Part 2: How Teenagers Cope With the Adult World  Part 3: How Young Adults Challenge the Social Order

O autorze

Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001).
Bruce White is Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Europe-Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University; he is the author of the Ph.D thesis 'Modernity's Children: Generational Change, Identity, and Global Citizenship in Japan'.