Social mobility in contemporary Japan
Subtitle: educational credentials, class and the labour market in a cross-national perspective
By: Hiroshi Ishida.
Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Social mobility -- Japan.; Social classes -- Japan.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Description: The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of "Japan as an educational credential society" has been debated for a long time in Japan. The book empirically evaluates this idea within the framework of a cross-national comparison with the United States and Britain.

The author also examines the patterns of class mobility in Japan within a cross-national perspective and reports similarities and differences in the mobility patterns among the three societies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.