Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological EnquiryRoutledge, 18/10/2005 - 284 من الصفحات The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study. |
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... (ibid.) Matsumoto provides the following fictitious example to show how a logically-minded Westernised woman with an American MBA and a 'hara-logical' Zen monk talk at cross-purposes, thereby pointing out a major Western—japanese ...
... (ibid.: 31). Matsumoto explains discommunication in this example as follows: The straightforward woman thought linearly that every problem has a solution, whereas the holistic monk thought non-linearly or rather circularly that the ...
... (ibid.: 36-8). Karjins/zugi (contextualism or interpersonalism) as a cultural value is then set against individualism. Whereas individualism is characterised by such features as egocentricity, self-reliance and human relation as a means ...
... (ibid.: 42-3). Kanjinshugi refers to 'the situation in which cooperation among group members is respected . . . or to the ideal which seeks symbiosis of the “individual” and the “group'” (ibid.: 38). In The Familial Societ) as a ...
... (ibid.: 73). BenDasan's characterisation of the japanese may be rephrased as the 'social preoccupation' and 'interactional relativism' of the japanese (Lebra 1976: 1—21). The japanese are described as being extremely sensitive to and ...
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comparative perspectives | 39 |
a critical review | 68 |
the holistic tradition in theories of modem Japan | 87 |
Chapter 6 Perceptions of Japanese uniqueness among educators and businessmen | 104 |
the response of educators and businessmen to the nihonjinron | 133 |
Chapter 8 Leading business elites nationalism and cultural nationalism | 158 |
Chapter 9 Explanations of the nihonjinron | 185 |
Chapter 10 Resurgent cultural nationalism and prudent revivalist nationalism | 203 |
Notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 263 |