Title: Social mobility in contemporary Japan
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.
Subjects: Social classes, Social conditions, Social mobility, Educación, Études transculturelles, Classes sociales, Marché du travail, Effets de l'éducation sur le, Soziale Mobilität, Mobilité sociale, Statut social, Marché du travail, Ocupaciones, Sociologie de l'éducation, Japan, social conditions
Places: Japan
Time periods: 1945-