ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Shortage, Westernization, Neoliberalism
13 Apr 2015
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The latter half of the postwar period (1974- 1989) Postwar affluence: the 1980s: known as the bubble period, labor shortage as people are too affluent for manual labour, rising land prices, therefore mom and pop shops are driven out of tokyo, the formation of mainstream consciousness. By using the anthropological classification of societies, we can state that o. Japan was a stratified society with different socioeconomic classes and access to resources (objective assessment) o (subjective understanding) However, many people felt that they were middle-class citizens. Postwar japan: summary o o o o o o. The establishment of the new middle class modernity and ideology. Mass public education as a way to succeed. Signs of political change: 2009- the democratic party of japan became the leading party but liberal democratic party came back in 2012. Present: the end of mainstream consciousness, the development of kakusa (gap, differentiation) consciousness.
