Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan

The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of 'Japan as an educational credential society' has been debated for a long time in Japan. The book empirically evaluates this idea within the framework of a cross-national comparison with the United States and Britain. The author also examines the patterns of class mobility in Japan within a cross-national perspective and reports similarities and differences in the mobility patterns among the three societies.

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List of Tables - List of Figures - Foreword; J.H.Goldthorpe - Acknowledgements - Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan - Data and Variables - The Process of Educational Attainment - The Process of Socio-economic Attainment - Higher Education and the Labour Market - Class Structure and Class Mobility - Class Structure, Status Hierarchies, and Inequality in Labour Market - Conclusions and Prospects - Appendix - Bibliography - Index