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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Chart -- Preface -- Introduction: A Comparative Approach to Social Cohesion and Minority Alienation -- Chapter Themes and Their Research Base -- Contemporary Japan -- Ethnic America -- 1 Confucian Hierarchy Versus Class Consciousness in Japan -- Historical Patterns in Vertical Relationships -- The Relative Absence of Disruptive Industrial Strife or Personal Alienation: Psychocultural Reasons -- The Expressive Functions of Japanese Paternalism -- Nurture and Succor, Expressive Needs: Actuality and Illusion in Japan -- The Religion of the Family: The Confucian Ethos -- Social Hierarchy in Traditional Confucian Thought -- Confucian Influences on Formal Education During the Meiji Period -- Locus of Power Related to Self-Development in Confucian Thought -- Harmony and Propriety: Goals in Confucian Childhood Socialization -- Role Behavior and Religious Experience -- Regularity and Order in the Aesthetic and the Moral -- The Pleasures of Self-Constraint -- Conclusion: Confucianism as a Religion of Family Continuity, Reverence and Gratitude -- 2 Forms of Alienation: Suicide in Japan -- Crises in Belonging: Experiencing Loss of Social Cohesion -- Frustrations of a Dependent Attachment or a Rupture of Status -- Forms of Japanese Suicide, Past and Present -- Japanese Vulnerability to Suicide: Basic Socialization Experiences -- Crises in Social Cohesion Within Japanese Society -- Suicide: A Failure of Love as Well as an Act of Aggression -- 3 Delinquency, Family Cohesion, and Minority Alienation -- Deviant Behavior: An Index of Relative Social Cohesion -- Urban Migration in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Social Cohesion and Community Organization in Japan -- Family Life and Delinquency in Japan -- Delinquency in Minorities.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984

Modern Japanese share a myth to the effect that they harbor in their midst an inferior race less ""human"" than the stock that fathered their nation as a whole. These pariahs, numbering more than two million, are segregated by caste just as firmly as the Negro is in the United States. The present volume, to which several Japanese and American social scientists have contributed, offeres an interdisciplinary description and analysis of this strangely persistent