Japan’s New Middle Class

Vogel, Ezra F.

doi:10.1525/9780520313682

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“…One of the most common themes in ethnographic accounts of Japanese is the emphasis the culture places on self-discipline (e.g., Benedict, 1946;Cummings, 1980;De Vos, 1973a;Duke, 1986;Johnson, 1993;Kondo, 1990;Lebra, 1976;Lewis, 1995;Singleton, 1995;Vogel, 1963;White, 1987). Disciplining the self to better approximate the expectations of others is an important skill for achieving interdependence.…”

Section: Self-disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

Heine

Lehman

Markus

et al. 1999

Psychological Review

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It is assumed that people seek positive self-regard; that is, they are motivated to possess, enhance, and maintain positive self-views. The cross-cultural generalizability of such motivations was addressed by examining Japanese culture. Anthropological, sociological, and psychological analyses revealed that many elements of Japanese culture are incongruent with such motivations. Moreover, the empirical literature provides scant evidence for a need for positive self-regard among Japanese and indicates that a self-critical focus is more characteristic of Japanese. It is argued that the need for self-regard must be culturally variant because the constructions of self and regard themselves differ across cultures. The need for positive self-regard, as it is currently conceptualized, is not a universal, but rather is rooted in significant aspects of North American culture. Conventional interpretations of positive self-regard are too narrow to encompass the Japanese experience.

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Section: Self-disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

Heine

Lehman

Markus

et al. 1999

Psychological Review

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“…Ezra F. Vogel did extensive research from 1958 to 1960 on the Japanese family system and in his work, he mentioned that even in those days also, the kinship system was mainly based on family inheritance which is in Japanese term-Dozoku (どぞく). The elder son was supposed to stay with his family and take care of the family possessions and elderly parents when the second and third ones were free from these responsibilities as well as family inheritances partially (Vogel, 1963). Here it could be determined with the remark following their history of kinship that Japan is a steamed kindred society with the inheritance of slightly biased patriarchy structure and having a nuclear family structure underlying.…”

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Kinship in Contemporary Japanese Society : An Overview

Malek

Akon

2021

Soc. Sci. Rev.

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The paper seeks to analyse the salient features of the kinship structure in Japan and how it plays it is significant role to form the traditional Japanese values. The paper also tries to analyse the changing nature of the kinship system in contemporary Japanese society from its traditional family (IE) system. The paper follows the qualitative method of research where the data has been collected from both academic and non-academic sources. By analysing the kinship structure of different periods in Japan, the paper finds that during the IE family system of the Tokugawa period, Japan gives less weight to kinship relations than other Asian countries. The feeling on son, either related to blood or adopted, marks the major distinction with other societies to find out the kin and non-kin. Following the IE system, the paper finds another two major events behind the weaken kinship structure in Japan: the emergence of koseki since the Meiji restoration and the rise of corporate culture during the contemporary period. Social Science Review, Vol. 37(2), Dec 2020 Page 105-124

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“…Brightness, however, was increasingly used as an imagery to stand for the emerging middle-class lifestyle in media campaigns driven by businesses since the 1950s. For example, Vogel (2013Vogel ( [1963, p. 71) makes an explicit link between the "bright new life" and the ownership of electrical goods. While "crude" kitchens were "closed to guests", kitchens furnished with "modern electrical equipment" were turned into "a display room" for visitors (Vogel, 2013(Vogel, [1963, p. 78).…”

Section: Light In Antiquitymentioning

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“…For example, Vogel (2013Vogel ( [1963, p. 71) makes an explicit link between the "bright new life" and the ownership of electrical goods. While "crude" kitchens were "closed to guests", kitchens furnished with "modern electrical equipment" were turned into "a display room" for visitors (Vogel, 2013(Vogel, [1963, p. 78). Ambitious electrical goods companies also took the opportunity to expand the domestic market (Partner, 1999).…”

Section: Light In Antiquitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A light burden: cultural discourse of light in Japan

Hui

2020

AEDS

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PurposeThis paper explores the sensory experiences and cultural meanings of light in Japan in relation to Japanese changing lighting practices. It demonstrates that these sensory experiences and cultural meanings form an integral part of social life in Japan.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a blended approach that combines historical research and ethnographic data in the research on the meanings of light. The findings are presented in three parts. Two of them describe the social history of light, and the third draws on ethnographic data collected in suburban Japan.FindingsThe findings suggest that light in Japan has maintained a close symbolic connection with certain positive values despite the changing lighting practices. For example, light is related to cleanliness in early historical records on candle-making. In post-war Japan, new light metaphors such as “bright family” were invented to accommodate new aspirations for modernity and progress. In the latest development, the moral dimension of light is emphasised. This is evident in the concerns on being seen as a “bright person”, a person with a cheerful personality. Light in this way is related to the sensory experience of feeling a “social weight”, the pressure for one to act according to social norms.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to our anthropological understandings of light. It also provides a local case study of Japan, supported by original ethnographic research conducted by the author.

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Japan’s New Middle Class

Cited by 157 publications

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Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

Kinship in Contemporary Japanese Society : An Overview

A light burden: cultural discourse of light in Japan

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