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Author Yoder, Robert Stuart, author.

Title Deviance and inequality in Japan : Japanese youth and foreign migrants / Robert Stuart Yoder.

Publication Info. Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : The Policy Press, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages)
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
Contents About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction: Power, Inequality and Deviance in Japan. Inequality and Deviance in Japan -- The Link Between Inequality and Deviance -- Powerful Parties -- Subcultures -- The Dominant Subculture Group -- Class Stratification -- Conflict and Deviant Behaviour -- Conflict and Division of Subordinate Subculture Groups -- Relative Deprivation, Interest Group Organisations and Conflict -- The Neglect of Inequality and Deviance in Japan -- Methodology -- Outline of the Book -- Two. Japanese Youth: Inequality and Deviance. The Modern-Day Concept of Youth -- Community and Police Crime Prevention Activities -- Educational Reforms -- Authoritarianism in Secondary Schools -- Class and Education -- The Working Class and Class Culture -- Class and Deviant Behaviour -- Juvenile Delinquency -- Youth Crime: Past and Present -- Conflict and Deviance At the Schools: Ijime and Tokokyohi -- Inequality, Deviance and Transition Into Adulthood -- Youth Self-Interest Organisations -- Misconceptions About Youth Crime -- Three. Foreign Migrants: Inequality and Deviance. Foreign Migrants -- Foreign Migrant Subcultures -- Inequality of Non-Japanese Migrants -- Mode of Adaptation -- Class -- Part One: Ten Largest Foreign Migrant Groups -- Part Two: Smaller Populated Foreign Migrant Groups -- Part Three: Foreign Migrants -- Four. Labelling Conflict Theory: Inequality and Deviance. A Labelling Conflict Perspective -- Entry -- Participation -- Replication -- Concluding Remarks -- Five. Conclusion. Short Summary of Deviance and Inequality in Japan -- The Study of Conflict in Japan -- Critique of Nihonjinron -- Conflict Over Social Policies -- Future Research -- Final Words -- References -- Appendix A:Notes on Methodology -- Getting Started: Conceptualisation -- Observations and Secondary Data -- Class Measurements -- Baseball: Interest, Concepts and Measurements -- Conceptualisation and Measurement -- First-Year Ballplayers: Young Rookies and Older Ballplayers -- Baseball Career of First-Year Ballplayers -- Foreign Migrant English Language Instructors At Japanese Colleges -- Appendix B: Issues and Cases of Inequality and Deviance -- Readers in Council and Cases of Inequality and Deviance -- Nationalism and Japanese Youth -- Sensationalising of the Mass Media -- Prejudice and Discrimination Against Foreign Migrants.
Summary "Japanese youth and foreign migrants face stringent institutionalised controls in Japan. This book questions the efficacy of such social controls, focusing on the interrelation of inequality (powerlessness, discriminate controls and class inequality) and deviance (largely derived from power and the violation of informal and formal norms). It provides a comprehensive detailed description and explanation of inequality and deviance of Japanese youth and 17 foreign migrant groups. The book is aimed at individuals, students and academicians interested in Japan area studies"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Deviant behavior -- Japan -- Case studies.
Deviant behavior.
Japan.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Youth -- Japan.
Youth.
Social stratification -- Japan.
Social stratification.
Social conflict -- Japan.
Social conflict.
Immigrants -- Japan -- Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Youth.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Yoder, Robert Stuart. Deviance and inequality in Japan. Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2011 9781847428325 (DLC) 2011410225 (OCoLC)713125314
ISBN 9781847428332 (electronic book)
1847428339 (electronic book)
1283078961
9781283078962
9781847428325 (hardcover)
1847428320 (hardcover)
Standard No. 9786613078964