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Ronald, Richard & Allison Alexy (eds.), 2010, Home and Family in Japan. Continuity and Transformation . London & New York: Routledge, xviii + 278pp., ISBN 978-0415488679, $145.00 (hb)

Ronald, Richard & Allison Alexy (eds.), 2010, Home and Family in Japan. Continuity and... Home and Family in Japan offers rich insight into various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to contemporary socio-economic transformations. The book highlights the changing pattern of family life from the hegemonic post-war image of standard family life to the nuclear family and to a situation where Japanese homes are more likely to include unmarried singles, childless couples, divorcees and so on. The book assembled from a multi-disciplinary perspective in order to addresses the various innovative aspects of home and family life in Japan. The findings range from significant change to a startling continuity in family life. Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy’s introduction in Chapter 1 presents an overview of the recent dramatic shifts in the actual conditions of families and households. An increase in the number of childless couples and unmarried young adults have been seen as a threat to the survival of enough working people to maintain the longer-living older generations. In Chapter 2 Bruce White analyses gaps between bureaucratic representations of family trying to construct what kind of family structures, ideologies and value sets should represent its people in the world. Hiroko Takeda in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Sociology Brill

Ronald, Richard & Allison Alexy (eds.), 2010, Home and Family in Japan. Continuity and Transformation . London & New York: Routledge, xviii + 278pp., ISBN 978-0415488679, $145.00 (hb)

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Comparative Sociology , Volume 11 (4): 620 – Jan 1, 2012
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1569-1322
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10.1163/15691330-12341237
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Home and Family in Japan offers rich insight into various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to contemporary socio-economic transformations. The book highlights the changing pattern of family life from the hegemonic post-war image of standard family life to the nuclear family and to a situation where Japanese homes are more likely to include unmarried singles, childless couples, divorcees and so on. The book assembled from a multi-disciplinary perspective in order to addresses the various innovative aspects of home and family life in Japan. The findings range from significant change to a startling continuity in family life. Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy’s introduction in Chapter 1 presents an overview of the recent dramatic shifts in the actual conditions of families and households. An increase in the number of childless couples and unmarried young adults have been seen as a threat to the survival of enough working people to maintain the longer-living older generations. In Chapter 2 Bruce White analyses gaps between bureaucratic representations of family trying to construct what kind of family structures, ideologies and value sets should represent its people in the world. Hiroko Takeda in

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Comparative Sociology – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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