Items related to Family Change and the Life Course in Japan: 44 (Cornell...

Family Change and the Life Course in Japan: 44 (Cornell East Asia Series) - Softcover

Long, Susan Orpett

 
9780939657445: Family Change and the Life Course in Japan: 44 (Cornell East Asia Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0939657449 ISBN 13: 9780939657445
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series, 2010

Synopsis

This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines, introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family change, and summarizes research results in areas such as infanticide, preindustrial mobility, family size and structure, family relations, mate selection, and the elderly. Summaries of Japanese studies and translated tables and graphs are integrated with materials from relevant English language publications from the perspective of life course theory. The book points out difficulties in cross-cultural research but stresses the vital contributions of such insights for the understanding of family change.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Susan Orpett Long is professor of anthropology at John Carroll University.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Cornell East Asia Series
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0939657449
ISBN 13 
9780939657445
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
140