Japanese Encounters with Postmodernity

✍ Scribed by Yoshio Sugimoto

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A systematic study of the sociological debate on postmodernity in the Japanese context. The volume consists of a collection of 12 papers that explore the idea of postmodernity primarily from sociological perspectives, covering a wide range of domains including work, feminism and communication.

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