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The Psychological Interdependence of Family, School, and Bureaucracy in Japan
Author(s) -
KIEFER CHRISTIE W.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1970.72.1.02a00080
Subject(s) - phenomenon , bureaucracy , political radicalism , explanatory power , power (physics) , competition (biology) , sociology , class (philosophy) , psychology , social psychology , political science , epistemology , law , politics , philosophy , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
The Japanese “examination hell” phenomenon is viewed as a series of crisis rites through which the child passes from family‐centered to peer group‐centered values in a “particularistic” society. It is held that this model has greater explanatory power than the “minimization of competition” model proposed by others and that it also helps to explain the phenomenon of student radicalism and centrifugal relationships in middle‐class communities.