Chapter 10: GROUP SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL ORDER IN JAPAN
Michael Hechter
and
Saroshi Kanazawa
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Monograph Chapter
Published:
06 Dec 2019
Page Range:
260–298
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903256.00018
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This paper seeks to explain why Japan has attained a higher level of social order than comparably developed western national societies. To do so, it distinguishes the attainment of local order in social groups from the global order in national societies. Recent models of spontaneous, self-organizing order are insufficient to account for global order. In contrast to the more popular normative explanation of order in Japan, which holds that a consensus on fundamental values derived from Confucian roots is an essential cause, this paper proposes a solidaristic theory built on rational choice premises.

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Cover Rational Choice Sociology
Rational Choice Sociology
Monograph Book
Published:
06 Dec 2019
Print ISBN:
9781789903249
eISBN:
9781789903256
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903256
Pages:
c 384
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
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