Examines beliefs and values generally shared by the Japanese and the importance they place on social interactions, relationships, and proper conduct.
Examines beliefs and values generally shared by the Japanese and the importance they place on social interactions, relationships, and proper conduct.
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Japan, a decade behind the United States, is now expressing its awareness of women as a major social issue. This awareness manifests itself in floods of publications, television coverage, the burgeoning of women's studies groups, court rulings interfering with sex discrimination, appointments of women to prominent positions thus far reserved exclusively for men, admission of women to such institutions as the Self Defense Forces, police, athletics, and so on.
Japan, a decade behind the United States, is now expressing its awareness of women as a major social issue. This awareness manifests itself in floods ...
Takie Sugiyama Lebra William P. Lebra William P. Lebra
Every chapters offers insights into one aspect or other of contemporary Japanese life. Newly included are discussions on such topics as dinner entertainment, skiing cross-culturally, male chauvinism as a manifestation of love in marriage, and domestic violence. Ten chapters have been retained from the first edition because they have achieved the status of classics.
Every chapters offers insights into one aspect or other of contemporary Japanese life. Newly included are discussions on such topics as dinner enterta...
The self serves as a universally available, effective, and indispensable filter for making sense of the chaos of the world. In her latest book, Takie Lebra attempts a new understanding of the Japanese self through her unique use of cultural logic. She begins by presenting and elaborating on two models (opposition logic and contingency logic) to examine concepts of self, Japanese and otherwise. Guided by these, she delves into the three layers of the Japanese self, focusing first on the social layer as located in four zones--omote (front), uchi (interior), ura (back), and soto...
The self serves as a universally available, effective, and indispensable filter for making sense of the chaos of the world. In her latest book, Tak...
