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| Constraint, power and intergenerational discontinuity in Japan | | Author(s) | John W Traphagan |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 2007, vol 6, no 2, 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, PA, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 211-230 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Annotation | This article uses ethnographic data to explore intergenerational relationships as they are both constructed and contested within the confines of the discourse of filial piety in Japan. The author argues that the current state of intergenerational relationships in Japan can neither be characterized in terms of an abandonment of traditional values of filial obligation nor in terms of a tacit acceptance of those values. Instead, contemporary Japanese experience intergenerational relationships in a social matrix that includes co-existing, and in some respects contradictory, discourses and associated matrices of power that at once encourage a lifestyle centred around the nuclear family and are characterized by independent decision-making while also emphasizing expectations of co-residence and commitment to filial obligations. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101125210 A |
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