Changes of the Determinant of Class Identification in Japan

Kikkawa, Tōru

doi:10.4057/jsr.50.216

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“…Therefore, it is possible to recognize that class lines in Japanese society are drawn according to occupation and the equivalent status publicly associated with certain occupations. This is supported by Kikkawa (1999), who notes that while middle class identification still remains at 75% the criteria have changed to include occupation, education, income, and life satisfaction as significant determinants.…”

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Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia: Subculture and Resistance

Maksay¹

2007

Tourism Review International

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This article explores the experiences of Japanese youth in Australia on working holiday visas. Unlike previous studies, which have concentrated on the structural effects that Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) have on employment and tourism, this study adopts an approach that focuses on individual working holiday makers. The research was qualitative and aimed to reveal junctures for understanding and theorizing Japanese WHMs. The main hypothesis is that as a group, Japanese WHMs form a distinctive subculture within Australia. In relation to subculture, they form and maintain social links and a strong sense of collective identity with other Japanese WHMs. In particular, the trip around Australia is understood as the central ritual as well as the context within which the subculture is formed.

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Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia: Subculture and Resistance

Maksay¹

2007

Tourism Review International

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“…The reason why this paper adopts personal income, contrary to previous studies adopting household income instead of personal income (e.g. Kikkawa, 1999), is that our analysis is restricted to male samples, whose class identifications are more oriented to person-level status than to household-level status (Seiyama, 1998) 3 Preceding Misumi (1986, Hodge and Treiman (1968), and Jackman and Jackman (1973),…”

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“…That is, people almost consistently tend to compare their income to that of others who earn less than them with a distorted perception of the income difference. In the studies of class identification, it is relatively rare to address the stability of the mechanism to determine class identification compared to its temporal fluctuations (e.g., Kikkawa, ). As far as the distributive stability of class identification is concerned, our implication seems important because it indicates that temporal stability is an underlying factor in the determination process of class identification.…”

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“…One of the main findings from previous studies is that one's current positions in three different dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES), namely, income, achieved educational level and occupational prestige, are crucial factors to condition class identification (e.g. Kikkawa, ). However, this finding, which asserts an explicit linkage between class identification and current positions of SES at the micro level, rather brings about another question at the macro level: distributive gaps between class identification and SES (Sudo, ).…”

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“…The discussion and analysis in this paper are limited to personal income, which we simply abbreviate as “income.” The reason why this paper adopts personal income, contrary to previous studies adopting household income instead of personal income (e.g. Kikkawa, ), is that our analysis is restricted to male samples, whose class identifications are more oriented to person‐level status than to household‐level status (Seiyama, )…”

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Income Comparison as a Determining Mechanism of Class Identification: A Quantitative and Simulation Study Using Japanese Survey Data

Maeda

Ishida

2013

Int J Japanese Sociology

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This paper questions whether personal income comparison explains the distributive gap between income and class identification by exploring the following two issues: empirical validity of income comparison as the determinant of class identification, and theoretical validity of income comparison for the distributive gap. For the first issue, we conduct a statistical analysis using data from the Social Stratification and Social Mobility surveys , and the Stratification and Social Psychology-I survey (2010). We find that the criteria for choosing reference groups changed historically from residential proximity to occupational equality. In addition, income comparison with sensitive to lowerincome possessors and a distorted perception of income difference significantly affected class identification, except for the year of 1985. The simulation analysis employed to examine the second issue clarified that income comparison with the above-mentioned features yields a less skewed distribution compared to that of class identification. The data also indicates that the empirical conditions of income are satisfied for realization of this result. Thus, we could ascertain empirical and theoretical validity of income comparison as explanation for the distributive gap between income and class identification.

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A Short History of Social Inequality Studies in Modern Japan

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2023

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Changes of the Determinant of Class Identification in Japan

Cited by 11 publications

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Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia: Subculture and Resistance

Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia: Subculture and Resistance

Income Comparison as a Determining Mechanism of Class Identification: A Quantitative and Simulation Study Using Japanese Survey Data

A Short History of Social Inequality Studies in Modern Japan

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