Class Structure, Education, and Social Mobility in Post-war Japan

Hiroshi Ishida ()
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Hiroshi Ishida: University of Tokyo

Chapter Chapter 2 in Social Stratification in an Aging Society with Low Fertility, 2022, pp 7-34 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines change and stability in the pattern of intergenerational class mobility and the role of education in mobility in post-war Japan. There is no clear tendency towards greater openness in post-war Japan nor is there an increase in intergenerational rigidity in the 1990s and 2000s. The results of trend analyses are consistent with the stability hypothesis which predicted that the strength and pattern of association between class origin and class destination remain stable in industrial societies. Similarly, the associations between class origin and education and between education and class destination show stability in the post-war period. Taking the results of absolute and relative mobility rates altogether, the Japanese postwar mobility experience can be understood as a remarkably stable relative mobility regime within the context of rapidly changing class structure and educational expansion during the 60-year postwar period.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-3647-0_2

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