John (United Nations University, Japan) Clammer 
Difference and Modernity [EPUB ebook] 
Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

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The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact ‘unique’ and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how special Japanese society really is, the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society, and inquires as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social and cultural worlds.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 154 ● ISBN 9781136898204 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2687903 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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