TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nakane,Chie
TI  - Japanese society
T2  - Pelican sociology
SN  - 4805304898
U1  - 309.15204 21
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Harmondsworth
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Social groups
KW  - Social values
KW  - Japan
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Translation of Tateshakai no ningen kankei; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. One is of course reminded of Ruth Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword which deals also with Japanese national culture. Studies by Margaret Mead and Geoffrey Gorer deal with other national cultures; however, all of these studies take off from national psychology. Professor Nakane comes to explanation of the behavior of Japanese through analysis rather of historical social structure of Japanese society, beginning with the way any two Japanese perceive each other, and following through to the nature of the Japanese corporation and the whole society. Nakane's remarkable achievement, which has already given new insight about themselves to the Japanese, promises to open up a new field of large-society comparative social anthropology which is long overdue
ER  -