JAPANESE SOCIETY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE SYD 4451 Spring ...

Marr, JAPANESE SOCIETY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE SYD4451
Jan 16 th , Week 2: Nihonjinron-- (The Myth of) Japanese Uniqueness
JAN. 16 TH (Monday) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day NO CLASS!!!
(LR) Sugimoto, Yoshio (2010). “The Japan Phenomenon and the Social Sciences,” and
“Geographical and Generational Variations,” Chapters 1 and 3 in An Introduction to
Japanese Society.
(DR) Nakane, Chie (1973). Chapter 1 (pp. 1-22) of Japanese Society. Penguin.
(GR) Fowler, Edward (1996). “Prologue,” and “Setting,” (pp. 1-51) in San’ya Blues:
Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo.
(RR) Befu, Harumi (2001). Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of
Nihonjinron. Trans Pacific Press.
Jan. 23 th , Week 3: Work, the Miracle, and the Underbelly
(LR) Sugimoto, Yoshio (2010). “Varieties in Work and Labor,” Chapter 4 in An
Introduction to Japanese Society.
(DR) Gordon, Andrew (2003). “Economic and Social Transformations,” Chapter 14 (pp.
245-269) in A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. Oxford
University Press.
Distribute term paper assignment
Term paper assignment B, “Library Exercise” (meet in GL 245 on Wed. the 27 th )
(GR) Fowler, Edward (1996). “Lives,” and “Activism,” (pp. 53-150) in San’ya Blues:
Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo.
Jan. 30, Week 4: Education, the Burst of the Bubble, and Growing Instability in Japan
(LR) Sugimoto, Yoshio (2010). “Diversity and Unity in Education,” Chapter 5 in An
Introduction to Japanese Society.
(RR) Slater, David H. (2010). “The Making of Japan’s New Working Class: ‘Freeters’
and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market,” The Asia-Pacific Journal.
Term paper assignment C, “Sociological Topic & Question”
(GR) Fowler, Edward (1996). “Rites,” “Work,” and “Epilogue,” (pp.151-230) in San’ya
Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo.
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