Losing face
Subtitle: status politics in Japan
By: Susan J. Pharr.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Equality -- Japan -- Case studies; Social conflict -- Japan -- Case studies
Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."