Japanese society / Chie Nakane.

By:

Nakane, Chie, 1926- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: Pelican sociology | A Pelican bookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1973Edition: Revised editionDescription: x, 162 pages : 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

4805304898

Uniform titles:

Tateshakai no ningen kankei. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

309.15204 21 N.C.J.

Summary: 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.

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Translation of Tateshakai no ningen kankei.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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