ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Post-Occupation Japan, Veneration Of The Dead, Terakoya
8 Feb 2016
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Families in japan - change over time. Defined the ideal family based on the archaic samurai (warrior) family model. Empowered the household head and the eldest son. Eliminated regional variations (e. g. , youngest child inheritance, eldest child inheritance = the eldest son or daughter) The emperor was said to be the household head for all japanese subjects. = the family system was shaped by the state. The new civil code (1947) abolished the ie (stem family) legal system. However, the stem family persisted as a social system. The postwar system stressed the importance of the conjugal bond encouraged people to have less hierarchical family relations. The rise of new-middle-class families (1950s 1970s) = small, urban families consisting of a married couple and two children. These families became common in postwar japan. The dual family structure developed in postwar japan because postwar urban migrants had many adult siblings. Urban nuclear-family households established by urban migrants. The rising number of permanently unmarried persons.
