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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... ideological grounds . In particular , they point out the lack of rigorous methodology in the nihonjinron or their heavy reliance on convenient examples in the form of personal experiences and everyday episodes in support of one par ...
... ideological criticism , arguing how the nihonjinron , which emphasise group cohesion and neglect classes , can serve as a dominant ideology in Japan . Cultural anthropologist Harumi Befu ( 1980 , 1987 ) also writes profusely on the ...
... ideological movement . Also , nationalism can be a latent phenomenon expressed mainly as pride in the nation's ... ideology they are propagating . They may more appropriately be called ' thinking elites ' in the sense that they are ...
... ideology of monotheism develops in order to fight against and to subordinate adversaries . The communal agricultural mode of Japan leads to opposite cultural traits . Aida Yūji ( 1962 , 1972 ) is one of the scholars who has done much to ...
... ideology or religious dogma . ' RACE THINKING ' The mode of thinking as manifested in the nihonjinron of the 1970s and the 1980s may be characterised not only as that of culturalism but also as what may be called ' race thinking ' . At ...
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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 |