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

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SALARY
 expand sectionChapter I—  The Problem and Its Setting
 expand sectionChapter II—  The Bureaucratic Setting in Perspective
 expand sectionChapter III—  The Gateway to Salary:  Infernal Entrance Examinations

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  THE FAMILY AND OTHER SOCIAL SYSTEMS
 expand sectionChapter IV—  The Consumer's "Bright New Life"
 expand sectionChapter V—  Families View Their Government
 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
 expand sectionThe Narrow World
 •Techniques of Social Control
 expand sectionChapter VII—  Basic Values

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  INTERNAL FAMILY PROCESSES
 expand sectionChapter VIII—  The Decline of the Ie Ideal
 expand sectionChapter IX—  The Division of Labor in the Home
 expand sectionChapter X—  Authority in the Family
 expand sectionChapter XI—  Family Solidarity
 expand sectionChapter XII—  Child-Rearing

 collapse sectionPART FOUR—  MAMACHI IN PERSPECTIVE
 expand sectionChapter XIII—  Order Amidst Rapid Social Change

 collapse sectionPART FIVE—  MAMACHI REVISITED
 expand sectionChapter XIV—  Beyond Salary

  Appendix:  A Report on the Field Work
 expand sectionSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX
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