Author: Lynne Y. Nakano
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415323161
Category : Voluntarism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.
Community Volunteers in Japan
Author: Lynne Y. Nakano
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415323161
Category : Voluntarism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415323161
Category : Voluntarism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.
A System of Community Volunteers
Community Volunteers in Japan
Author: Lynne Nakano
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134350551
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their everyday acts. It discusses their experiences in children's activities, the parent-teachers association, juvenile delinquency prevention campaigns, and care of the elderly. It explores their conflicts and their motivations, and argues that personal decisions to volunteer and acts of volunteering, besides being personal choices, are productive of larger discussions of the needs and directions of Japanese society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134350551
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their everyday acts. It discusses their experiences in children's activities, the parent-teachers association, juvenile delinquency prevention campaigns, and care of the elderly. It explores their conflicts and their motivations, and argues that personal decisions to volunteer and acts of volunteering, besides being personal choices, are productive of larger discussions of the needs and directions of Japanese society.
Minsei-iin
Politics and Volunteering in Japan
Author: Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511295669
Category : Community organization
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511295669
Category : Community organization
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A System of Community Volunteers in Japan
On the Margins of Japanese Society
Author: Carolyn S. Stevens
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134757085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134757085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society
Author: Paola Cavaliere
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004285156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women’s faith-based volunteering as a social practice, the book engages with three of the most important dimensions of civil society: gender, religion, and democracy. Cavaliere teases out the complexity of interactions among these three dimensions of civic life through stories of individual women who volunteer for three different religious organizations. The volume examines how faith-based volunteering is experienced by women in contemporary Japan and how it becomes a site of empowering and disempowering practices through which women balance the benefits and the costs of personal shifts, socio-economic changes and democratic transformation.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004285156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women’s faith-based volunteering as a social practice, the book engages with three of the most important dimensions of civil society: gender, religion, and democracy. Cavaliere teases out the complexity of interactions among these three dimensions of civic life through stories of individual women who volunteer for three different religious organizations. The volume examines how faith-based volunteering is experienced by women in contemporary Japan and how it becomes a site of empowering and disempowering practices through which women balance the benefits and the costs of personal shifts, socio-economic changes and democratic transformation.
Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan
Author: Barbara Holthus
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351969188
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book investigates the connections between socio-structural aspects, individual agency and happiness in contemporary Japan from a life course perspective. The contributors examine empirical data on the processes which impact how happiness and well-being are envisioned, crafted and debated in Japan across the life-cycle. The book discusses the shifting notions of happiness during people’s lives from birth to death, analyzing the age group-specific experiences while taking into consideration people's life trajectories and historical changes. It points also out recent developments in regards to demographic change, late marriage, and the changing labor market.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351969188
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book investigates the connections between socio-structural aspects, individual agency and happiness in contemporary Japan from a life course perspective. The contributors examine empirical data on the processes which impact how happiness and well-being are envisioned, crafted and debated in Japan across the life-cycle. The book discusses the shifting notions of happiness during people’s lives from birth to death, analyzing the age group-specific experiences while taking into consideration people's life trajectories and historical changes. It points also out recent developments in regards to demographic change, late marriage, and the changing labor market.
The Failure of Civil Society?
Author: Akihiro Ogawa
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791494039
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791494039
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.