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Community Volunteers in Japan
Author | : Lynne Y. Nakano |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Voluntarism |
ISBN | : 0415323169 |
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Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.
Community Volunteers in Japan
Author | : Lynne Nakano |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134350554 |
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Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their everyday acts. It discusses their experiences in children's activities, the parent-teachers association, juvenile delinquency prevention campaigns, and care of the elderly. It explores their conflicts and their motivations, and argues that personal decisions to volunteer and acts of volunteering, besides being personal choices, are productive of larger discussions of the needs and directions of Japanese society.
Politics and Volunteering in Japan A Global Perspective
Author | : Mary Alice Haddad |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Community organization |
ISBN | : 0511296436 |
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Politics and Volunteering begins by painting a portrait of volunteering in Japan, and demonstrates that our current understandings of civil society have been based implicitly on a U.S. model that does not adequately consider participation patterns found in other parts of the world. The book develops a theory of civic participation that, incorporates citizen attitudes about governmental and individual responsibility, with societal and governmental practices that support (or hinder) volunteer participation. This theory is tested using cross-national and sub-national statistical analysis, and it is refined through detailed case studies of volunteering in three Japanese cities. The findings are then used to build the Community Volunteerism Model, which explains and predicts both the types and rates of volunteering in communities around the world. The model is tested using four cross-national case studies (Finland, Japan, Turkey and the United States) and three sub-national case studies in Japan.
On the Margins of Japanese Society
Author | : Carolyn S. Stevens |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134757084 |
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The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
The Phoenix of Natural Disasters
Author | : Kathryn Gow,Douglas Paton |
Publsiher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1604561610 |
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This book encompasses discussions between Kathryn Gow and Douglas Paton, both psychologists who have researched stress, burnout, trauma, and recovery in natural disasters. They suggest that few books have been written for health professionals, and persons directly involved with leading and managing emergency teams on what constitutes resilience in individuals and groups in communities, and how they differ in response and recovery. The outcome is a three part book with contributors from the field, research institutions, emergency service sectors, support agencies and the media. Its main purpose is to focus on the resilience of people and communities following NDs and to educate the sectors already involved in natural disasters.
Promising Practices Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society
Author | : Paola Cavaliere |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004285156 |
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Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women’s faith-based volunteering as a social practice, the book engages with three of the most important dimensions of civil society: gender, religion, and democracy. Cavaliere teases out the complexity of interactions among these three dimensions of civic life through stories of individual women who volunteer for three different religious organizations. The volume examines how faith-based volunteering is experienced by women in contemporary Japan and how it becomes a site of empowering and disempowering practices through which women balance the benefits and the costs of personal shifts, socio-economic changes and democratic transformation.
The Failure of Civil Society
Author | : Akihiro Ogawa |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-03-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791494035 |
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A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.
Life Course Happiness and Well being in Japan
Author | : Barbara Holthus,Wolfram Manzenreiter |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781351969185 |
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Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature. Here, for the first time, a group of anthropologists and sociologists jointly analyze the state of happiness and unhappiness in Japan among varying social groups in its physical, interpersonal, existential and structural dimensions, offering new insights into fundamental issues. This book investigates the connections between sociostructural aspects, individual agency and happiness in contemporary Japan from a life course perspective. The contributors examine quantitative and qualitative empirical data on the processes that impact how happiness and well-being are envisioned, crafted, and debated in Japan across the life-cycle. Therefore, the book discusses the shifting notions of happiness during people’s lives from birth to death, analyzing the age group-specific experiences while taking into consideration people’s life trajectories and historical changes. It points out recent developments in regards to demographic change, late marriage, and the changing labor market and focuses on their significant impact on the well-being of Japanese people. In particular it highlights the interdependencies of lives within the family and how families are collaborating for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing the happiness of its members. Broadening our understanding of the multidimensionality of happiness in Japan, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology.