Title: Japanese social organization /
Authors: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, 1930-
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Social structure Japan History.; Japan Social conditions
Abstract: From this collection of essays by anthropologists and sociologists emerges a picture of Japan far more diverse and complex than the standard image of a harmonious, orderly or unitary society.
Contents: Conflict, legitimacy, and tradition in a Tokyo neighborhood / Theodore C. Bestor -- The spatial layout of hierarchy / Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- Christmas cakes and wedding cakes: the social organization of Japanese women's life course / Mary C. Brinton -- Life on obasuteyama, or, Inside a Japanese institution for the elderly / Diana Lynn Bethel -- Under the silk banner: the Japanese company and its overseas managers / Tomoko Hamada -- Doing and undoing "female" and "male" in Japan / Jennifer Robertson -- Death by defeatism and other fables / Patricia G. Steinhoff.