SOCIOLOGY 311: JAPAN & THE UNITED
STATES:
COMPARISONS & PERCEPTIONS
Spring
1998
Requirements
LECTURE SCHEDULE
Introduction
- Feb. 2 Introduction to Japanese Society in
Comparative Perspective
- Feb. 4 Japanese-American Relations and
Perceptions
The
Microlevel
- Feb. 9 The Self and the Group
- Feb. 11 The Adolescent Pattern
- Feb. 16 Social Mobility: Class, Sex,
Generation
- Feb. 18 The Family System and the Legacy of
the Ie
- Feb. 23 Gender and the Life Cycle
- Feb. 25 The Enterprise System and the
Challenge to Lifetime Employment
- Mar. 2 The Stratification System and
Inequality
- Mar. 4 The Korean Diaspora and Minority
Treatment
- Mar. 9 Towards a Leisure Society
- Mar. 11 Quiz 1
- Mar. 23 State-Society Relations
- Mar. 25 The Struggle for Localism and Local
Identity
- Mar. 30 The Urban System and
Decentralization
- Apr. 1 The Information Age
- Apr. 6 Intellectuals and the
State
- Apr. 8 Comparisons of
Civilization
- Apr. 13 National Identities
- Apr. 15 Great Power Strategies
- Apr. 20 Lessons from Japanese-American
Relations
- Apr. 22 Responses to the Fiscal Crisis of
1997
- Apr. 27 The Big Bang and Japan's
International Relations
- Apr. 29 Conclusions