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Japan's New Middle Class Hardcover - 2013 - 3rd Edition

by Ezra F. Vogel; Contribution by Suzanne Hall Vogel; Foreword by William W. Kelly


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This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led to a new social class-the salaried men and their families. It was a well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to Japanese society today.

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  • Title Japan's New Middle Class
  • Author Ezra F. Vogel; Contribution by Suzanne Hall Vogel; Foreword by William W. Kelly
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 3rd
  • Edition 3
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Date 2013-07-18
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781442223714 / 1442223715
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Japan - Social conditions, Middle class - Japan
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013013353
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.550

About the author

Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Suzanne Hall Vogel (1931-2012) was a psychotherapist with University Health Services at Harvard University. William W. Kelly is professor of anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University.
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