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Losing Face

by Susan J. Pharr

Case studiesEqualitySocial conflictEstudio con casosConflicto socialJapan, social life and customsJapan, social conditionsJapan, politics and government, 1945-

How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status.

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Book data: Open Library