Japan's New Middle Class
  PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SALARY
 collapse sectionChapter I—  The Problem and Its Setting
 •The Double Structure
 •The Setting:  Mamachi
 collapse sectionChapter II—  The Bureaucratic Setting in Perspective
 •The Successful Businessman
 •The Independent Professional
 •The Shopkeeper
 •The Salary Man
 collapse sectionChapter III—  The Gateway to Salary:  Infernal Entrance Examinations
 •Preparing for and Taking Examinations
 •The Family's Contribution:  Maternal Involvement
 •The School's Contribution:  Teacher Involvement
 •Mitigating the Harshness
 •The Hypertrophy of Examinations
 •Achievement without Rivalry

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  THE FAMILY AND OTHER SOCIAL SYSTEMS
 collapse sectionChapter IV—  The Consumer's "Bright New Life"
 collapse sectionThe Ordered Life
 •Long-Range Planning
 •Short-Range Planning
 •The Limits of Frugality
 •The Freedom to Shop
 collapse sectionChapter V—  Families View Their Government
 •The National Identity
 •The Role of the Citizen
 •Salary and the Moderation of Alienation
 collapse sectionChapter VI—  Community Relationships
 •The Separate Communities of Husbands, Wives, and Children
 •The Father and His Company Gang
 •The Mother and Her Neighborhood
 •The Child and His Friends
 collapse sectionThe Narrow World
 •Acquaintances
 •Benefactors
 •Friends
 •Techniques of Social Control
 collapse sectionChapter VII—  Basic Values
 •Loyalty
 •Competence
 •A Major Variation:  Aesthetic Values
 •The Moral Basis of the Salary Man

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  INTERNAL FAMILY PROCESSES
 collapse sectionChapter VIII—  The Decline of the Ie Ideal
 •The Concept of Ie
 •The Branch
 •The Decline of the Ie Authority and Welfare
 •Symbolic Remnants
 •The Decline of Family Principles
 collapse sectionChapter IX—  The Division of Labor in the Home
 •Creeping Co-Operation in the Home
 •Housework:  The Daily Round
 •Housework:  Inglorious and Glorious
 collapse sectionChapter X—  Authority in the Family
 •The Tradition of "Male Dominance"
 •Maintenance of Decentralized Authority
 •The Nature and Exercise of the Husband's Authority
 •The Art of Husband Management
 •The Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law
 collapse sectionChapter XI—  Family Solidarity
 •The Household Unit
 •The Basic Alignment:  Mother and Children vs. Father
 •Husband and Wife:  Increasing Privacy and Intimacy
 •Coalitions with Grandparents
 collapse sectionChapter XII—  Child-Rearing
 •The Basic Relationship:  Mutual Dependency of Mother and Child
 •Variations on a Theme: Birth Order, Sex, and Parentage
 •The Father
 •Getting the Child to Understand
 •Getting the Child's Co-Operation in Study

 collapse sectionPART FOUR—  MAMACHI IN PERSPECTIVE
 collapse sectionChapter XIII—  Order Amidst Rapid Social Change
 collapse sectionThe Transitional Order
 •The Kinship System
 •The Group Control of Mobility
 •Group Control of Alienation and Change
 •Child-Rearing, Personality, and Values
 •The Nature of the New Order
 •The Diffusion of the New Order

 collapse sectionPART FIVE—  MAMACHI REVISITED
 collapse sectionChapter XIV—  Beyond Salary
 •A New Confidence in Old Mamachi
 •Salary without Visions
 •Approaching Affluence
 •The Growth of National Pride
 •"My Home-ism:" Old Wine in New Bottles

  Appendix:  A Report on the Field Work
 collapse sectionSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 •English-Language Works on Japanese Society
 •Japanese-Language Bibliography on the Japanese Family
 •Selected Bibliography of Enlgish-Language Articles and Pamphlets on the Japanese Family
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