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Beyond Modernization: Imagining the Social in the Postwar American Social Science of Japan | Prof. Amy Borovoy | Princeton University | Department of Asian Studies

Beyond Modernization: Imagining the Social in the Postwar American Social Science of Japan | Prof. Amy Borovoy | Princeton University

Seminar 3 - Prof. Amy Borovoy


 

Beyond Modernization: Imagining the Social in the Postwar American Social Science of Japan

Prof. Amy Borovoy
Princeton University
7/12/2022 - WED 16:30 - Room 5318

Abstract

Studying Japan in the postwar United States created space for wrestling with the ghosts which have haunted narratives of modernization—questions of social solidarity, shared social meaning, and the psychological impoverishment of mass production and consumption. Japan studies in the latter part of the 20th century raised questions about the nature of community in the context of late modernity that have never been adequately answered. The talk considers three case studies: the work of Ruth Benedict, Robert Bellah, and Thomas P. Rohlen.