Original scientific paper
The System of Values and the Process of Acculturation in Japan
Snježana Čolić
; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb
Abstract
Values established in Japanese culture represent a basis for the standardization of horizontal and vertical relations among all social groups, from families to groups brought together by the working process. By analysing the three main normative concepts of traditional Japan (on, giri and ninjo) an effort is made to understand the forms of behaviour and social relations pertaining to traditional as well as modem Japan. On the other hand, by means of a short comparative-historical analysis, the author tries to demonstrate how acculturation has been performed, i.e. how the primarily Chinese and western influences have been reinterpreted in order to rationalize the autochtonous system of values and also the country’s technological development.
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155249
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Publication date:
30.9.1990.
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