Changes in the Determinants of Class Identification in Japan

Kikkawa, Tōru

doi:10.1080/15579336.2000.11770214

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“…Interestingly, more NGOs do not statistically contribute to a higher degree of ICC. Regarding education, we found that at the provincial level, education did not predict ICC, which makes some sense since previous findings at the individual level are not univocal in terms of cohorts, with an insignificant effect of education on class concerns/identification found in Japan in the 1980s but a positive and significant link between the two variables in the 1990s (Kikkawa 2000). Furthermore, we also found that the degree of globalization negatively predicts ICC, as expected.…”

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Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China

Chen

2019

Soc Indic Res

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Public concerns about class immobility represent awareness of social closure and economic inequality on the part of members of the public. We provide the first representative portrait and empirical analysis of the growing immobility concerns among the Chinese. Using online query volume data from Baidu, the most widely used search engine in China, we extract the overall index of searching immobility-related words to measure the provincial level of concerns about immobility. We found that concerns about immobility rose dramatically from around 2008 and slightly decreased from 2012 and that all provinces show similar tendencies. We fit dynamic panel models using the Generalized Method of Moments estimator and found that the level of public concerns about class immobility in a province is profoundly affected by a series of the province's political and socioeconomic conditions.

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Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China

Chen

2019

Soc Indic Res

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“…Third, the distribution and relative value of education attainment may differ according to the generation to which the parents belong, 28 although some Japanese studies have suggested that educational attainment has had more effects on class identification in Japan since the 1990s. 29 These differences may have underestimated the association between parental education and being overweight. Finally, occupational class may not be a reliable indicator of SES in Japan, unlike in Western countries.…”

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Socioeconomic Status and Overweight: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study of Japanese Children and Adolescents

Kachi

Otsuka

Kawada

2015

Journal of Epidemiology

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Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) as a determinant of obesity has received scant attention in Japan. This study examined the association between SES and overweight among Japanese children and adolescents. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses of a representative sample of Japanese children (6-11 years: n = 397) and adolescents (12-18 years: n = 397) were performed, with measured heights and weights from the 2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the 2010 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions. Overweight, including obesity, was defined by International Obesity Task Force cut-offs. SES indicators included household income, equivalent household expenditure, parental educational attainment, and parental occupational class. Results: Overweight prevalence was 12.3% in children and 9.1% in adolescents. Adolescents living in middleincome households were more likely to be overweight than those living in high-income households (OR 2.26, 95% CI, 1.01-5.67) after adjustment for age, sex, and parental weight status. Similarly, adolescents living in households with low expenditure levels were more likely to be overweight than those living in households with high expenditure levels (OR 3.40, 95% CI, 1

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“…Within an organization, the occupational class structure may be clearer, which may lead to the disparity in health and stress. In addition, occupation was reported to account for only a small proportion of the variation of subjective social class in a national representative sample in Japan 40) . Within Japanese society, occupation may not be a sensitive indicator of social class, however, it may affect employees' mental health depending on working conditions specific to a given occupation as well as employees' relative position within an organization.…”

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confidence: 99%