State Bearing Gifts

Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value,' 'exchange,' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift,' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitimacy.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-16
Mått155 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt465 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor308
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739113455

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Chapter 1 The Paradox and Price of the GiftChapter 2 The Burden of the Beneficiary: Schooling, Legitimacy, and AlienationChapter 3 Exchange Dramatics: Evaluating the Realness of ValueChapter 4 Dramatizations, Deceptions, and FrontsChapter 5 Bureaucratic Fetishism and Mutating InstitutionsChapter 6 The State as Gift-Giving Machine and Stage ManagerChapter 7 Japan's Strategic Schooling: Education as a Gift from the StateChapter 8 Faces and Fronts: The Licit and Illicit Facets of Japan's Higher EducationChapter 9 Exchanging Untruths at Amadera Women's AcademyChapter 10 Learning National Identity at Amadera Women's AcademyChapter 11 "Examocracy": Examinations as Dramatizations of Self-WorthChapter 12 Guiding Students through the Official Exchange CircuitryChapter 13 Education Reform-Mongering: Real and Rhetorical ChangeChapter 14 Self-Deception as Alienation: Rethinking Estrangement in Modern SocietyChapter 15 Appendix: Varieties of ExchangeChapter 16 A Précis of Alienation

This book is an ethnographic, participant-observer study based on the author's extensive experience with ten post-secondary institutions in Japan, in a variety of roles including graduate student, researcher, professor and department chair....It is an intriguing approach that helps us see the data in a different light, to see connections that we might otherwise not see. . . . Presents a fascinating, but disturbing, case study of undergraduate education in Japan.