The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521345154 ISBN 13: 9780521345156

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses the Japanese dimension of one of the major sociological issues of our time: the nature of socio-economic modernisation and the emergence or otherwise of 'post-modern' industrial society. The rise to economic supremacy of post-war Japan constitutes an enormous challenge to that western orthodoxy which posits an essentially unilinear process of modernisation from the seventeenth century to the present day in which national and regional diversity has been eroded by the gradual social convergence of the major industrial powers. How does a society of contrasting social and cultural traditions fit within this pattern? Can one sensibly speak of Japanese society as 'modern' when such usage is effectively defined by other, western, presuppositions? In this volume an international team of contributors assesses these questions and investigates the real impact of modernisation upon the Japanese themselves.

About this title

Book Description:

This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses the Japanese dimension of one of the major sociological issues of our time: the nature of socio-economic modernisation and the emergence or otherwise of 'post-modern' industrial society.

About the Author:

Gavan McCormack is Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. His recent books include "The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence; Japan's Contested Constitution" and "Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe".

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0521345154
• ISBN 13: 9780521345156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: McCormack Gavan, Sugimoto Yoshio