essay
Individual mobility and group membership: the case of the burakumin
Aspects of social change in Modern Japan • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1971 • Pages: 337-372
By: Cornell, John B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the work of a professional anthropologist and is informed by field research. It first explores the status of the outcaste population in Japanese society generally, and then examines a rural outcaste community in Okayama. The focus of the latter, the main body of the paper, is a discussion of the interplay between individual and group identity, and avenues of upward mobility available to members of this stigmatized minority. The conflicts inherent in any mobility strategy are emphasized.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Community structure
- Manipulative mobility
- Social personality
- Political parties
- Cultural participation
- Urban and rural life
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okayama
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan A. Simpson; John Beierle ; 1979: John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951, 1957-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Matsuzaki administrative district (Matsuzaki-ku) of Tsudaka town (Tsudaka-cho), Okayama Prefecture, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] John B. Cornell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66011973
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Japan--Okayama Prefecture