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'적당히 시골이면서 적당히 도시인 곳'으로⋅181 jobs concurrently based on their diverse interests and previous profe... more '적당히 시골이면서 적당히 도시인 곳'으로⋅181 jobs concurrently based on their diverse interests and previous professional backgrounds, contributing to the revitalization of rural communities. The quest for a sustainable lifestyle carried out by distancing themselves from competition and consumerism is a vital component of their migration. Ultimately, this migration of the members of young Japanese generations epitomizes a form of lifestyle migration that underscores a reflexive search for self.
Social Science Japan Journal, 2014
This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracki... more This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracking in a Japanese junior high school, thereby acquiring a sense of their place in society, as well as in school. Through the sorting processes, they are socialised to think about where they are likely to fit within the society relative to their academic standing in school. While most low-achieving students come from working class families, they blame themselves rather than their family backgrounds for their academic failures in school. Despite conscious efforts by teachers at Shōbun Junior High School to revise the Ministry of Education's tracking system to provide more support to remedial students, tracking still served to sort students on the basis of family background. By illuminating the manner in which one Japanese junior high school in a Buraku neighbourhood contributes to rationalising social reproduction, this article explores the psychosocial mechanisms through which class identity is constructed.
Cross-cultural studies, 2016
This paper aims to review the English-published literature which is engaged in exploring the ways... more This paper aims to review the English-published literature which is engaged in exploring the ways in which schooling may function to reproduce the existing social inequality. In so doing, this paper critically examines three main approaches-correspondence, resistance, and cultural capital-to educational differentiation and then refers to empirical studies concerning the academic achievement gap between African and European American students and the differential development of higher education in the United States. As such this paper suggests that neither structural nor cultural approach is good enough to understand the effect of schooling on social reproduction if we draw on only one or the other. Instead, it proposes that educational anthropologists should be able to analyze the mechanisms through which class identities as well as the social gap in educational achievement and attainment are created.
Social Science Japan Journal 17(2), 2014
This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracki... more This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracking in a Japanese junior high school, thereby acquiring a sense of their place in society, as well as in school. Through the sorting processes, they are socialised to think about where they are likely to fit within the society relative to their academic standing in school. While most low-achieving students come from working class families, they blame themselves rather than their family backgrounds for their academic failures in school. Despite conscious efforts by teachers at Shōbun Junior High School to revise the Ministry of Education’s tracking system to provide more support to remedial students, tracking still served to sort students on the basis of family background. By illuminating the manner in which one Japanese junior high school in a Buraku neighbourhood contributes to rationalising social reproduction, this article explores the psychosocial mechanisms through which class identity is constructed.
'적당히 시골이면서 적당히 도시인 곳'으로⋅181 jobs concurrently based on their diverse interests and previous profe... more '적당히 시골이면서 적당히 도시인 곳'으로⋅181 jobs concurrently based on their diverse interests and previous professional backgrounds, contributing to the revitalization of rural communities. The quest for a sustainable lifestyle carried out by distancing themselves from competition and consumerism is a vital component of their migration. Ultimately, this migration of the members of young Japanese generations epitomizes a form of lifestyle migration that underscores a reflexive search for self.
Social Science Japan Journal, 2014
This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracki... more This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracking in a Japanese junior high school, thereby acquiring a sense of their place in society, as well as in school. Through the sorting processes, they are socialised to think about where they are likely to fit within the society relative to their academic standing in school. While most low-achieving students come from working class families, they blame themselves rather than their family backgrounds for their academic failures in school. Despite conscious efforts by teachers at Shōbun Junior High School to revise the Ministry of Education's tracking system to provide more support to remedial students, tracking still served to sort students on the basis of family background. By illuminating the manner in which one Japanese junior high school in a Buraku neighbourhood contributes to rationalising social reproduction, this article explores the psychosocial mechanisms through which class identity is constructed.
Cross-cultural studies, 2016
This paper aims to review the English-published literature which is engaged in exploring the ways... more This paper aims to review the English-published literature which is engaged in exploring the ways in which schooling may function to reproduce the existing social inequality. In so doing, this paper critically examines three main approaches-correspondence, resistance, and cultural capital-to educational differentiation and then refers to empirical studies concerning the academic achievement gap between African and European American students and the differential development of higher education in the United States. As such this paper suggests that neither structural nor cultural approach is good enough to understand the effect of schooling on social reproduction if we draw on only one or the other. Instead, it proposes that educational anthropologists should be able to analyze the mechanisms through which class identities as well as the social gap in educational achievement and attainment are created.
Social Science Japan Journal 17(2), 2014
This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracki... more This ethnographic study examines how students are sorted through sophisticated grading and tracking in a Japanese junior high school, thereby acquiring a sense of their place in society, as well as in school. Through the sorting processes, they are socialised to think about where they are likely to fit within the society relative to their academic standing in school. While most low-achieving students come from working class families, they blame themselves rather than their family backgrounds for their academic failures in school. Despite conscious efforts by teachers at Shōbun Junior High School to revise the Ministry of Education’s tracking system to provide more support to remedial students, tracking still served to sort students on the basis of family background. By illuminating the manner in which one Japanese junior high school in a Buraku neighbourhood contributes to rationalising social reproduction, this article explores the psychosocial mechanisms through which class identity is constructed.