Sociology and society of Japan

Part 1 The rise of sociology in Japan: sociology in Japan the modernization of Japanese society 1868-1945 sociology and socialism in the interwar period. part 2 Theoretical and empirical problems of rural and urban community studies: a critical evaluation of the sociological thought of Tadashi Fukutake, rural sociologist of postwar Japan tradition and community power structure in Japan the citizens' movement against environmental destruction in Japan. Part 3 The development of capitalism in relation to the religious cosmos of ordinary Japanese people: the Tennousei ideology and Japan's war of aggression Japanese capitalism and the extended family system - modernization in a local community the Japanese image of the world the world views of the ancient Japanese - anthropological studies of the Kojiki. Appendix-chronology of publications 1915-30.