Paradigm Shifts in <scp>J</scp>apanese Family Sociology

Ochiai, Emiko

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“…The sociological approach to neoinstitutionalism has produced a number of studies on the impact of globalization on local policy and cultural change (Meyer et al, 1992;Berkovitch, 1999;Sato and Yamada, 2004;Schofer and Meyer, 2005;Schofer et al, 2012). Prior studies on local transformations and globalization have described the processes of changing employment conditions and gender stratification (Liu and Boyle, 2001;Ehara, 2005;Uggen and Shinohara, 2009) and the diversification of family, citizenship, and welfare regimes (Ito, 2005;Ochiai, 2013Ochiai, , 2014. Others suggest that women's higher education (Ramirez and Wotipka, 2001;Shinohara, 2015Shinohara, [2014) and social movements for socioeconomic and human rights (Chan-Tiberghien, 2004;Tsutsui and Shin, 2008) are expanding.…”

Section: Research Background: Global Norm Diffusion and Healthcare Workmentioning

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Health‐care Work in Globalization: News Reports on Care Worker Migration to Japan

Shinohara

2016

Int J Japanese Sociology

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Health-care worker migration has emerged as a social issue in Japan, contrary to it has in Indonesia. This article shows how national contexts affected by globalization have shaped social understandings and policies towards healthcare worker migration in the two societies over time. Analyses of news coverage in the Japanese and Indonesian national media reveal a gap of social responses toward this change. The Japanese are more likely to respond negatively to health-care worker migration; yet they intend to face cross-cultural challenges, although slowly, making revisions to related policies. In contrast, in Indonesia, from where health-care workers migrate to Japan and many other countries, this tends to be understood positively, overall, as providing economic benefits and permitting Indonesian professionals to contribute to the worker shortage in Japan. I interpret these results based on the literature on health-care worker migration, emerging global norms and local changes, and comparative research on employment and care work. This study contributes to the sociological understanding of worker migration and health-care issues.

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Section: Research Background: Global Norm Diffusion and Healthcare Workmentioning

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Health‐care Work in Globalization: News Reports on Care Worker Migration to Japan

Shinohara

2016

Int J Japanese Sociology

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“…The 1980s was also a turning point in terms of theory in Japanese family sociology, as there was a 'paradigm shift' (Ochiai, 2013). Objecting to the 'nuclear family paradigm', 5 this period saw the emergence of new theoretical perspectives on the family.…”

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“…Widening availability of nationwide family surveys including the NFRJ and the influence of 'welfare regime' theories seem to have facilitated collaborations between family researchers and their colleagues in other countries (Ochiai, 2013). Widespread low fertility in East Asia appears to have fueled research interest in comparing families in East or South-East Asian countries.…”

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Family sociology in Japan: Recent developments and the current state of the field

Tabuchi

2021

International Sociology

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Although family sociology in Japan has a long history, sociological family studies in Japan have undergone major changes since the 1990s. This article recounts the ways in which family sociology in Japan has developed and its current state, with a special focus on the developments in the last three decades. The 1990s marked a turning point in the history of Japanese family sociology in terms of the establishment of new academic societies and a paradigmatic shift in theoretical orientations. The trends in family research articles indicate the continuing importance of quantitative research, with the role of qualitative research on the rise over the last two decades. In reviewing the literature over the last three decades, the author summarizes four major strands of empirical research: (a) care and families, (b) social inequality and families, (c) comparative research, and (d) diversity of families.

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Ie ( J apanese Family System)

Rajkai

2017

The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory

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The Ie is popularly viewed as Japan's traditional stem family system. Debates about the Ie played an enormous role in Japan's modernization and had a great impact on the formation of various theories among Japanese intellectuals. Theories favoring the Ie paradigm tend to argue against the prevailing postwar unilineal nuclearization theory of the Japanese Ie and emphasize the hybrid character of the postwar Japanese family system as both modern and traditional.

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Paradigm Shifts in Japanese Family Sociology

Cited by 9 publications

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Health‐care Work in Globalization: News Reports on Care Worker Migration to Japan

Health‐care Work in Globalization: News Reports on Care Worker Migration to Japan

Family sociology in Japan: Recent developments and the current state of the field

Ie ( J apanese Family System)

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