The composition of stratification and class in contemporary Japan
By: guest editors, Nobuo Kanomata and Toru Kikkawa
Series: International journal of sociology -- v. 30, no. 1-2
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Armonk, NY
Language: eng
Translated from: jpn
Subjects: Social classes; Social stratification; Social structure; Sex role; Social mobility; Social conditions
Other titles: Shakaigaku hyōron.
Notes: Articles originally published in Japanese as a single special issue of the Japanese sociological review, v. 50, no. 2 (1999).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: (I). Guest editor's introduction / Nobuo Kanomata and Toru Kikkawa ; The modern stratification system and its transformation / Kazuo Seiyama ; Class structure in contemporary Japan / Kenji Hashimoto ; The meritocracy hypothesis and trends in educational opportunity / Hiroyuki Kondo; title: (II). Analysis of labor markets in postwar Japan : from the viewpoint of job mobility / Tsutomu Watanabe and Yoshimichi Sato ; Changes in the determinants of class identification in Japan / Toru Kikkawa ; Married women's gender-role attitudes and social stratification : commonalities and differences between Japan and the United States / Kazuo Yamaguchi.