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National Character Leaves the Nursery at Last: Discussion*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

David W. Plath  and
Cora Du Bois
David W. Plath
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cora Du Bois
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , November 1974 , pp. 193 - 205
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974

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Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese. By George A. DeVos, with Contributions by Hiroshi Wagatsuma, William Caudill, and Keiichi Mizushima. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1973. xv, 597 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Index. $20.00.

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2 Haak, Ronald O., Nishijin Weavers: A Study oj the Functions of Tradition in Modern japan (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of 11linois, Urbana-Champaign, 1973).Google Scholar

3 For a recent review and critique of culture-and-personality studies on Japan see relevant sections of Edward Norbeck and Susan Parman (eds.), The Study of Japan in the Behavioral Sciences (Rice University Studies, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1970).Google Scholar

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6 On personal change in marriage, see for exampie Sonya Salamon, “Male chauvinism as a manifestation of love in Japanese marriages,” paper given at annual meetings of the American AnCenturythropological Assn., New Orleans, November, 1973. On socialization into a large corporation, see Thomas, Rohlen, For Harmony and Strength: Jap-anese White Collar Organization in Anthropologi-cal Perspective (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1974).Google Scholar And on ideological conversions, see among others Chapter I of Tsurumi, Kazuko, Social Change and the Individual: Japan Before and After World War U (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).Google Scholar

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