Social stratification in contemporary Japan

Introduction - historical background, preceding studies notions of class, status, and social mobility - formal framework of the problems, historical framework of the problems, cross-national framework of the problems aspects of social inequalities and differences - income disparity, other social differences, changing stratification over time intergenerational social mobility - trend of intergenerational mobility, self-employment and social mobility, comparison with other countries labour market and career mobility - introduction, basic concepts and data, internal labour market and intercompany mobility, intersectorial mobility class and status perceptions - introduction, changing class and status perceptions, the middle classification phenomena (empirical analysis and formal analysis) political attitude and social strata - political attitude, social strata, cleavage of party supporter 1955, ruin of the reformist parties 1985, no party affiliation as a cause of fluctuations women's changing status and status identification - introduction, overview of some differences between sexes, status identification of married women, attitude for sex-segregated traditions.