Overview
- Provides a comprehensive study of the Japanese family system, testing theories of family change and gender revolution
- Evaluates factors affecting intergenerational living arrangements and married women’s employment across the life course
- Demonstrates persistent regionality in distributions of stem family, maternal employment, and communal parenting systems
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
Part of the book sub series: Population Studies of Japan (POPULAT)
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By analyzing data from a nationally representative life course survey with event history techniques, it investigates factors affecting post-marital intergenerational co-residence and proximate residence along with those influencing continuous and/or discontinuous employment of married women across the life course. In this way, it reveals the mechanisms underlying the stem family formation and those behind married women’s M-shaped employment pattern. It further explores regionality in the Japanese family system, applying a demographic mapping method to data from a nationally representative community survey and official statistics. The mapping analyses demonstrate persistent geographical contrasts between two types of living arrangements (single-household versus multi-household) in the stem family accompanied by two types of maternal employment (full-time versus part-time). They also reveal a historical correlation between traditional communal parenting systems and modern childcare services, linking past to present from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.
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Book Title: The Japanese Family System
Book Subtitle: Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century
Authors: Akihiko Kato
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2113-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2112-3Published: 14 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2113-0Published: 13 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2211-3215
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 122
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Human Geography, Social Sciences, general, Education, general