Beschreibung:
Alan Miller
This book explores how social order is produced and maintained in Japan and explains why social order is high in Japan. It presents a wide range of scholarship on Japan, ranging from studies by criminologists to religious studies to the most current social psychological studies.
Theoretical Orientation -- Social Order and Social Control: An Introduction -- The Solidaristic Theory of Social Order -- Social Institutions -- The Education System: Social Initiation -- Work: A Continuation -- The Family -- Crime -- Nonintuitive Consequences -- Crime Revisited: White-Collar Crimes -- The Religious Landscape of Japan -- Trust -- Speculations and Conclusions -- The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions -- Conclusion