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Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Suzanne Hall Vogel (1931–2012) was a psychotherapist with University Health Services at Harvard University. William W. Kelly is professor of anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University.
Foreword: Looking Backward at a Book That Looked Forward
William W. Kelly
Part I: The Significance of Salary
Chapter 1: The Problem and Its Setting
Chapter 2: The Bureaucratic Setting in Perspective
Chapter 3: The Gateway to Salary: Infernal Entrance Examinations
Part II: The Family and Other Social Systems
Chapter 4: The Consumer’s “Bright New Life”
Chapter 5: Families View Their Government
Chapter 6: Community Relationships
Chapter 7: Basic Values
Part III: Internal Family Processes
Chapter 8: The Decline of the Ie Ideal
Chapter 9: The Division of Labor in the Home
Chapter 10: Authority in the Family
Chapter 11: Family Solidarity
Chapter 12: Child-Rearing
Part IV: Mamachi in Perspective
Chapter 13: Order Amidst Rapid Social Change
Part V: Mamachi Revisited
Chapter 14: Beyond Salary
Chapter 15: Beyond Success: Mamachi Thirty Years Later
Afterword
Ezra F. Vogel
Appendix: A Report on the Field Work
Selected Bibliography
The underlying objective of the book is to show what has changed in contemporary Japan as a result of the massive impact of the war, the defeat, the Occupation, and the subsequent industrial growth; and what has remained unchanged. . . . Highly recommended to anthropologists who are concerned about just how to represent modern urban life ethnographically; to teachers who must give courses on contemporary Japanese life, and are searching for a good text; and to anyone who is interested in social and cultural change in modern societies. (Previous Edition Praise)
— American Anthropologist
A perceptive and engaging book. . . . A mine of perceptive observations, comments, and interpretations. (Previous Edition Praise)
— American Sociological Review
This thoughtful study of the rapidly growing ‘new middle class’ who man the bureaucracies of Japanese firms concentrates on their family and personal life. . . . [The book] deserves to be read widely. (Previous Edition Praise)
— The Annals