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  • AGEING IN ASIA
    ROGER GOODMAN
    The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, China, Japan and South-East Asia. In placing these Asian cases stu...

    $1,320.00

  • CASE STUDIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN JAPAN
    ROGER GOODMAN / IAN NEARY
    Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights. ...

    $1,380.00

  • THE EAST ASIAN WELFARE MODEL
    GOODMAN, ROGER / KWON, HUCK-JU / WHITE, GORDON
    For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different ...

    $1,600.00

  • GLOBAL JAPAN
    ROGER GOODMAN
    The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both of significant Japanese communities outside Japan, and of large non-Japanese minorities within Japan,...

    $1,240.00

  • IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICE IN MODERN JAPAN
    GOODMAN, ROGER / REFSING, KIRSTEN
    The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which...

    $1,240.00