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Jewish Mothering in Japan
Author(s) -
FRAGER ROBERT
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1972.tb00684.x
Subject(s) - prestige , feeling , judaism , sociology , gender studies , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
Jewish and Japanese child rearing are compared as examples of patterns that produce highly successful, achievement‐oriented children. Mothers are notably devoted and nurturant, and also fairly sophisticated and antonomous individuals, with considerable authority at home. Fathers have high prestige, but are somewhat distant. Achievement is also motivated by the child's feelings of guilt over the mother's pain and suffering caused by his failure to live up to her high expectations.