Guest editor's introduction

Article Abstract:

The guest editors introduce the subject of social stratification in Japan. The articles of this publication will use data taken from the Social Stratification and Social Mobility Survey, conducted along ten year intervals between 1955 and 1995.

Social mobility

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Class structure in contemporary Japan

Article Abstract:

The author refutes the historic approach to class study in postwar Japan, an approach characterized by the division of all classes into two categories, the capitalist class and the revolutionary working class. Class study has thus been tainted by political and theoretical biases. The reconstruction of class study as a social science is described.

Social aspects

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Changes in the determinants of class identification in Japan

Article Abstract:

Japanese economic growth has led to a shift in class identification. The author has identified several determinants of class identification, including socioeconomic status, income, and life satisfaction in the 1980s, and education, occupation, and again, income and life satisfaction, in the 1990s.

Research, Economic aspects, Social economics, Socioeconomics

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