Deviance and inequality in Japan : Japanese youth and foreign migrants /: Japanese youth and foreign migrants. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Stuart Yoder.
• Authors: Yoder, Robert Stuart
• Contents: About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction: Power, Inequality and Deviance in Japan. Inequality and Deviance in Japan -- The Link Between Inequality and Deviance -- Powerful Parties -- Subcultures -- The Dominant Subculture Group -- Class Stratification -- Conflict and Deviant Behaviour -- Conflict and Division of Subordinate Subculture Groups -- Relative Deprivation, Interest Group Organisations and Conflict -- The Neglect of Inequality and Deviance in Japan -- Methodology -- Outline of the Book -- Two. Japanese Youth: Inequality and Deviance. The Modern-Day Concept of Youth -- Community and Police Crime Prevention Activities -- Educational Reforms -- Authoritarianism in Secondary Schools -- Class and Education -- The Working Class and Class Culture -- Class and Deviant Behaviour -- Juvenile Delinquency -- Youth Crime: Past and Present -- Conflict and Deviance At the Schools: Ijime and Tokokyohi -- Inequality, Deviance and Transition Into Adulthood -- Youth Self-Interest Organisations -- Misconceptions About Youth Crime -- Three. Foreign Migrants: Inequality and Deviance. Foreign Migrants -- Foreign Migrant Subcultures -- Inequality of Non-Japanese Migrants -- Mode of Adaptation -- Class -- Part One: Ten Largest Foreign Migrant Groups -- Part Two: Smaller Populated Foreign Migrant Groups -- Part Three: Foreign Migrants -- Four. Labelling Conflict Theory: Inequality and Deviance. A Labelling Conflict Perspective -- Entry -- Participation -- Replication -- Concluding Remarks -- Five. Conclusion. Short Summary of Deviance and Inequality in Japan -- The Study of Conflict in Japan -- Critique of Nihonjinron -- Conflict Over Social Policies -- Future Research -- Final Words -- References -- Appendix A:Notes on Methodology -- Getting Started: Conceptualisation -- Observations and Secondary Data -- Class Measurements -- Baseball: Interest, Concepts and Measurements -- Conceptualisation and Measurement -- First-Year Ballplayers: Young Rookies and Older Ballplayers -- Baseball Career of First-Year Ballplayers -- Foreign Migrant English Language Instructors At Japanese Colleges -- Appendix B: Issues and Cases of Inequality and Deviance -- Readers in Council and Cases of Inequality and Deviance -- Nationalism and Japanese Youth -- Sensationalising of the Mass Media -- Prejudice and Discrimination Against Foreign Migrants.
• Publisher Details: Bristol, UK Portland, OR : The Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages)
• Subjects: 306.0952; Deviant behavior -- Japan -- Case studies; Youth -- Japan; Social stratification -- Japan; Social conflict -- Japan; Immigrants -- Japan -- Social conditions; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Deviant behavior; Immigrants -- Social conditions; Social conflict; Social stratification; Youth; Japan; Electronic books; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847428332; 1847428339; 1283078961; 9781283078962
• Related ISBNs: 9781847428325; 1847428320
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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