Yoshio Sugimoto, Ohann P. Arnason

Japenese Encounters With Postmod

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a systematic study of the sociological debate on postmodernity in the Japanese context. The volume consists of a collection of 12 papers that explore the idea of postmodernity primarily from sociological perspectives, covering a wide range of domains including work, feminism, communication, science and technology, social stratification, fine arts and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138879287
• ISBN-10: 1138879282
• Artikelnr.: 42798884

Autorenporträt

Johann Arnason and Yoshio Sugimoto, Professors of Sociology, School of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION 2 THEORY Modernity, Postmodernity and the Japanese
Experience 3 WORK Postmodernism or Ultra-modernism: The Japanese Dilemma at
Work 4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Is Japanese Capitalism Post-Fordist? 5 GENDER
Equal Opportunity and Gender Identity: Feminist Encounters with Modernity
and Postmodernity in Japan 6 SCIENCE Fuzzy Logic: Science, Technology and
Postmodernity in Japan 7 LITERATURE Questioning Modernism and Postmodernism
in Japanese Literature 8 FINE ARTS The Conditions for Postmodernity in
Japanese Art of the 1980s 9 COMMUNICATION Modernisation and
Post-modernisation of the Japanese System of Communication Changing Status
Perceptions in Contemporary Japan: A Debate on Modernity and Postmodernity
11 POLITICS The Japanese Postmodern Political Condition 12 JAPANESE STUDIES
Nihonjinron at the End of the Twentieth Century: A Multicultural
Perspective