Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan

Educational Credentials, Class and the Labour Market in a Cross-National Perspective

von Hiroshi Ishida

310 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of 'Japan as an educational credential society' has been debated for a long time in Japan. The book empirically evaluates this idea within the framework of a cross-national comparison with the United States and Britain. The author also examines the patterns of class mobility in Japan within a cross-national perspective and reports similarities and differences in the mobility patterns among the three societies.

• Reihe: St Antony's Series
• ISBN: 9780333644478
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.1995
• Genre: Soziologie/Politische Soziologie
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK