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Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption

ISBN: 978-0-470-71277-1

May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

194 pages

Description
This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.
About the Author
John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo.
Features

  • The first systematic sociological study of urban Japan by a western scholar.

  • Breaks methodological and conceptual ground by exploring contemporary Japanese urban lifestyles through an analysis of consumption behaviour.