Pop culture and the everyday in Japan
Subtitle: sociological perspectives
By: edited by Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji ; translated by Leonie R. Stickland
Series: Japanese society series; Japanese society series
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781920901455
Subjects: Social life and customs; Popular culture; Mass media
Work titles: Bunka shakaigaku no shiza. English
Notes: Originally published: Bunka shakaigaku no shiza.  Kyoto, Japan : Minerva Shobo, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-295) and index.

Translated from the Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Preface : what is the appeal of the sociology of culture? / Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji; title: Introduction : the scope of the sociology of culture / Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji; title: Perspectives on media-and-group culture : from an empirical/critical approach to a multi-method approach / Izumi Tsuji; title: Perspectives on expressive culture : what do cultural works give people, and how do they link people together? / Katsuya Minamida; title: Perspectives on the culture of generations and life-phases : the quantitative approach and qualitative approach / Daisuke Tsuji; title: Why do people become addicted to mobile phones? : the sociology of email communication / Kensuke Suzuki; title: How has the style of television viewing changed? : the active receiver and the transformation of the subversive riposte / Keiichi Nabe; title: Where is differentiated communication heading? : through analysis of the readers' column in the fashion magazine, CUTiE / Sōichirō Matsutani; title: Why make e-moe-tional attachments to fictional characters? : the cultural sociology of the post-modern / Yoshimasa Kijima; title: Why do people gather at rock festivals? : communication mediated by music / Junʼichi Nagai; title: What are contemporary aspects of the parent/child relationship? : mother/daughter friendship and its social context / Yasuko Nakanishi; title: Is 'poverty' or 'affluence' the reality? : towards consideration of 'living in the regions' / Hisashi Fujii; title: What is at question in youth labour issues?: the two phases of specialisation, 'manual-based' and 'qualified' / Masahiro Abe; title: What does it mean to be a 'Japanese'?: the current state of 'national identity' in Japan, based on ISSP 2003 / Sunsuke Tanabe.