The Changing Japanese Family (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rebick, Marcus; Takenaka, Ayumi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the family in society. Changing Japanese Family explores these significant changes which include an ageing population, delayed marriages, a fallen birth rate, which has fallen below the level needed for replacement, and a decline in three-generational households and family businesses.

The authors investigate these changes and the effects of them on Japanese society, whilst also setting the study in the context of wider economic and social changes in Japan. They offer interesting comparisons with international societies, especially with Southern Europe, where similar changes to the family and its role are occuring. This fascinating text is essential reading for those with an enthusiasm in Japanese studies but will also engage those with a concern in Japanese culture and society, as well as appealing to a readership with a wider interest in the sociology of the family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134207800
• Artikelnr.: 42980957

Autorenporträt

Marcus Rebick is University Lecturer in the Japanese Economy at Oxford University and a fellow of St. Antony's College. His research interests include labour economics, the Japanese economy, the economics of ageing and the economics of higher education. Ayumi Takenaka is Assistant Professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr College and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of research interest are international migration, ethnic and racial relations, social inequality and comparative Japanese studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. The Changing Japanese Family Part 2: The
Demographic Transition 2. Demographics of the Japanese Family: Entering
Uncharted Territory 3. Japanese Youth's Attitudes Towards Marriage and
Child-Rearing 4. Strong in Tradition and yet Innovative: The Puzzles of the
Italian Family Part 3: The Shifting Gender Balance 5. Changes in the
Workplace and their Impact on the Family 6. The Emergence of "Nurturing
Fathers": Discourses and Practices of Fatherhood in Contemporary Japan 7.
Changing Language, Gender and Family Relations in Japan Part 4: Shifts in
the Boundaries of the Family 8. Mother-Rearing: The Social World of Mothers
in a Japanese Suburb 9. Policing the Japanese Family: Child Abuse, Domestic
Violence and the Changing Role of the State 10. Changing Families and
Policy Responses to an Ageing Japanese Society 11. Different Paths to
Welfare: Family Transformations, the Production of Welfare, and Future
Prospects for Social Care in Italy and Japan