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SUMMARY:The Fate of the Social in Modern Life: American Social Scientists and Japan as Archive
DESCRIPTION:In the decades following World War II\, American social scientists turned to the study of Japanese society as an emerging ally and fellow capitalist democracy. At a time when influential theories of modernization predicted the decline of kinship\, community\, hierarchy\, and collective obligation\, Japan presented a puzzle. It was an advanced industrial and capitalist society in which village\, family\, corporate welfare\, and moral persuasion in public institutions played powerful roles in organizing everyday life. ​This talk examines how postwar scholars treated Japan not simply as an object of stud
LOCATION:Lathrop Library
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